Lessons from Zimbabwe’s failed land reforms
By :William Gumede
Giving communal land to individual households, rather than mostly corrupt traditional overseers, will unlock real value, energy and entrepreneurship.
Zimbabwe's failed populist-based land...
Mulching
Mulching is the process of covering the soil surface around the plants in order to create favorable conditions for the crop growth. This may...
World’s largest farmer-to-farmer network, Wefarm, reaches over one million users and sends more than...
One in five farms in Kenya and Uganda now uses the network to share intel and answer one another’s questions
Wefarm, the world’s largest farmer-to...
Case IH Field Day demonstrates the power of mechanisation for a productive and efficient...
Agriculture is a strategic sector in the Tunisian economy. It occupies approximately 16% of the country’s workforce and contributes around 12% of GDP. Land...
Rising temperatures will push millions of people in Africa into poverty and hunger unless...
Climate change has set our planet on fire, millions are already feeling the impacts
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report detailing progress...
2018 Irrigation Show New Product Contest entries announced
The Irrigation Association is pleased to announce the entries in its annual new product contest. A record number of at least 60 new irrigation,...
Grain and seed cleaning and storage – why is it so important?
by Facet Engineering CEO, Colin Fairweather:
The quality of harvested grain and seed is dependent on a few important factors, these include: the settings and...
IFAD and the Lab launch new partnership to drive finance to African smallholder farmers...
Today, in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (the Lab) and the International Fund for...
Zimbabwe’s agriculture minister speaks against ill-treatment of white farmers
By Nita Karume :
Zimbabwe’s new agriculture minister, Mr. Perrance Shiri has condemned the ill treatment of white farmers. As such, he has instructed the...
Intercropping as a sustainable farming method
Intercropping has been receiving little to no acknowledgment at all from scientists. This is despite its practice being around for centuries by millions of...