COP28: CGIAR and partners launch innovation sprint on gender and climate action
The world’s leading agriculture innovation network, CGIAR and 20 partners have committed US$31 million over four years (2023-2027) to ensure that climate innovations in...
IFAD unveils new financing mechanism to up support to smallholder food producers in East...
The United Nation’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and partners has unveiled a new financing mechanism to beef up support to small-scale food...
Kenya Nut Company Installs First Commercial On-Site Green Ammonia System for Carbon-Free Fertilizer Production
Kenya Nut Company, a multi-national agricultural business based in Kenya, announced today that it has partnered with TalusAg, a green ammonia technology company, to...
EWS-KT in an MoU to raise awareness of economic and nutritional potential of vegetables...
East-West Seed Knowledge Transfer Foundation (EWS-KT), a non-profit corporate foundation with unique ties to East-West Seed Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with...
Over 200,000 farmers to benefit from IFAD, ADB initiative to boost dryland farming in...
The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of Indonesia signed a new initiative aimed at transforming dryland farming to make...
Scientists develop drought resistant, high yielding sorghum varieties suitable for dry regions of Africa
By Zablon Oyugi
Drought stress occurring during the critical growth stages of sorghum, including pre- and-post flowering period of the crop, has had a detrimental...
Poor, imbalance fertiliser supply worsening world’s most vulnerable countries’ food insecurity situation-New report
By Zablon Oyugi
A new report released by the Thabo Mbeki Foundation (TMF) in partnership with the Andrey Melnichenko Foundation, has revealed that poor and...
Rwanda scientists conducting field trials on new resilient, high yielding potato varieties poised to...
In a bit to boost the country's potato production, scientists at Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) are currently conducting field trials on some two new...
Strategic cooperation agreement between Tornum and Cesco
Tornum Group, a leading global player in the agricultural industry, and Cesco EPC, an international contractor specialising in large-scale industrial investments in inland and...
Markets bowled over by the quality of this year’s cherry crop
Cherry season is one of the briefest, but also most exciting times on the South African fruit calendar and it is currently in full...