Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Pledges $315 million to Support Innovations That Help Smallholder...
Today at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged US $315 million to the CGIAR global agriculture research partnership to help hundreds of millions of smallholder...
Fish farmers from Kenya receives pond liners, fingerlings
Fish farmers from Kirinyaga County in Kenya have received fishpond liners, fingerlings and feeds to enable them undertake beneficial fish farming.The County government selected...
Smart fertilizer software and SupPlant develop new App combining irrigation and fertiliser
SupPlant, the Leading precision agricultural technology company, partners with Smart Fertilizer Software to create a sensor-less precision plant nutrition platform designed for farmers across the globe...
Kenya declared locust-free
Kenya has been declared free of desert locusts, at least for now. Collin Micheni, director of plant protection and food safety at the Ministry...
Africa’s first climate credit facility for Agriculture launches in Kenya
Africa’s first climate adaptation credit facility for agriculture, ADAPTA, has launched with USD 1.5 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...
Dairy farmers in Taita Taveta, Kenya receives major boost
Smallholder dairy farmers in Taita Taveta County, Kenya are already reaping the benefits of a partnership by the County administration, the National Government and...
Nigeria releases new maize variety
The Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, in Nigeria has released TELA, maize variety that would save the country N268...
Agriculture Workers Association holds annual congress
Agriculture Workers Association (AWA) under the Ministry of Agriculture held its annual congress at Cape Point in Bakau.The event witnessed the election of new...
Liberia Min Tweah seeks AIIB to focus on climate and smart agriculture
Liberia’s Finance and Development Planning Minister, Samuel D. Tweah Jr. has expressed the need for the Asia Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB) to focus...
FAO champions integrated crop-livestock-fish farming in Rwanda
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has piloted an integrated crop-livestock-fish farming in Rwanda, a practice it says has the potential to holistically...