Grain Production in an Environment of a Myriad Challenges
2022 NAMPO Harvest Day InterviewDr Pieter Taljaard, the CEO of Grain South Africa (Grain SA) fields questions from FARMERS REVIEW AFRICA on the 2022...
Soil Organic Carbon Essential for Preventing Drought
Climate change is creating significant agricultural production challenges. Rising global temperatures are adversely affecting soil quality in arid regions. Africa notoriously struggles with crop...
Kenya hosts regional workshop on rice self sufficiency
Kenya has for the last three days been hosting Rice Breeding Innovations (RBI) National Agricultural Research and Extension Systems Partners’ Annual workshop for East...
Nigeria to send farmers for capacity building in Morocco, Israel
Nigeria's National Agriculture Lands Development Authority (NALDA) is sending 200 young farmers to Morocco and Israel on a capacity building trip focusing on crop...
Insect, hydroponic farming: innovative solution for Africa’s food security crisis: World Bank
In February 2022, 282 million people were experiencing hunger in Africa, more than double the proportion of any other region in the world.According to...
Food insecurity in Mozambique affected 3m in 2021 – Global Report
Nearly three million people in Mozambique faced a food crisis or an emergency in 2021, the highest number since the 2016 drought, a global...
Egypt considers bill regulating food waste
The Egyptian House of Representatives is considering a new draft law on regulating food waste and encouraging its redistribution, recycling and donation.This is a...
Western Kenya farmer find export markets and fortunes in herbs and spice farming
In Siaya County of Western Kenya, a farming revolution is taking shape, chaperoned by a former civil servant who has transformed swathes of traditionally...
EU, FAO, Govt Tanzania launches National Campaign for healthier diets and good nutrition practices
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Tanzania, through the European Union (EU) funded AGRI-CONNECT flagship programme,...
Climate change storm threatens Kenya’s tea production
Kenya’s tea production is likely to drop significantly within the next decade because of climate change, threatening the country’s foreign earnings from the crop.This...