PROCESSING or FRESH – WHICH IS BETTER?
This story brings up a basic dilemma that many fruit growers face:
what is better for me; selling my fruits to a Processing Plant or...
OPed: Will we slash our food supply for politics, or stay with science?
By Okisegere Ojepat, CEO Fresh Produce Consortium of Kenya (FPC-Kenya)
One of the sadder aspects of our development into a global village driven by technology...
Apples and pears are nature’s own anti-rust
New year’s resolutions often include drastic intentions which, as often, come to nothing as they demand too big a change. An easy and effective...
Route to Food Security is Impact Assessed Regulations
By Daniella Munene, CEO of Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya
Our parliamentarians are sometimes required to rule on some challenging proposals, with the private members’ Kenya...
Getting women in the driver’s seat of Africa’s agribusiness revolution
by Mariam Yinusa and Edward Mabaya
Monica Musonda, CEO of Zambian food processing company Java Foods , certainly faced hurdles in her rise to the top,...
Botswana government to blame for unprecedented rate of rhino and elephant slaughter: Political Animal...
Rhinos and elephants are being slaughtered at an unprecedented rate in Botswana and NGO Political Animal Lobby (PAL) lays the blame squarely on the...
Oped : Cease the big window of opportunity this planting season!
Land preparation – Dr Ben Ngwene, AGCO
While the southern African region endures a persisting drought which started back in October 2018, planting season 2019 is...
Overcoming systemic challenges to transform South Africa’s agricultural sector
Gert Schoonbee co-owner of farming company Schoonbee Landgoed gives insights on how South Africa’s agriculture sector can be transformed
According to the recently launched ‘BFAP...
Why So Little Agricultural Produce Exported From Africa?
Fruits waiting to be collected to the market (Biofeed...)
The Status of Fresh Produce Export
Although favorable environmental conditions, limitless availability of land, and high demands...
The role of biodiversity in achieving food and nutrition security in Kenya
By Emmanuel Atamba
The Human Right to Food is yet to be fully realised in Kenya. More than 10 million Kenyans suffer from chronic food...