Mali suspends grain exports indefinitely
The government of Mali has indefinitely suspended exports of rice, maize and other grains to protect its national food supply.
Minister Mohamed Ould Mahmoud made...
Denmark commits millions to vulnerable farmers through IFAD’s climate adaptation fund
In the wake of COP26, which featured a strong call for increased finance to help the world’s poorest countries adapt to the impacts of...
What price do countries pay by failing to adopt genetically modified (GM) crops?
By Joseph Maina ,Nairobi Kenya (specialist in agricultural biotechnology)
Two new papers aim to quantify the social welfare and economic costs that countries inflict upon...
Egypt allocates LE 100 million to conduct research on wheat productivity
Egypt allocated LE100 million to conduct innovative research to increase the productivity of wheat crops, produce new strains of the rice crop and increase...
Kenya to roll out Sh 9.6bn Livestock Commercialization Project
The government of Kenya in collaboration with International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has set aside Sh9.6 billion to establish the Kenya Livestock Commercialization...
Vihiga County, Kenya to digitize agriculture
Vihiga County in Kenya is set to go the digital way in agriculture. The County Government has partnered with a consortium of companies including;...
Innovative Agricultural Development Company Launches In Ghana To Offset $35 Billion Annual Cost Of...
With over 3,300 hectares of land in the Volta region, ‘Lotus Ecoculture’ is on a mission to
increase farming yields by up to 30%...
Bayer to launch Project Carbonview, an industry-first digital carbon footprint measurement solution for agriculture
Bayer, Bushel and Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled Project Carbonview. This has been conceptualized by Bayer and developed in collaboration with Bushel and AWS....
Op-Ed: Livestock derived foods- vital to tackling food and nutrition insecurity in Africa.
By: Dr Chimimba David Phiri
More than one-third of the world’s undernourished people reside in Africa. The number of chronically undernourished continues to rise on...
Total digestible nutrients (TDN): How useful is it ?
There are many methods of evaluating ingredients for animal feeding. This is important because the composition and characteristics of the ingredients that make up...