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...
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%...
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...
Standard Bank drives sustainable growth of Africa’s sugar value chain
Many communities within sub-Saharan Africa rely on sugar not only as a source of calorific energy, but for the employment, industrialisation, and trade opportunities...
Conveyors for agricultural uses
Cost-effective, Safer and Efficient Material HandlingInformation from leading OEMs indicates that conveyors have improved material handling tasks in farming businesses in other regions. This...
Breeding for social animal behavior
In order to support the global food challenge with high-quality animal genetics, it’s important to understand the interaction between animals and how we can influence positive social behavior....
FAO and partners convene major stakeholders on complex issue of Africa’s woodfuel use
Of all the wood produced every year in sub-Saharan Africa, 90% is used as fuel, posing a major sustainability challenge. Woodfuel, primarily firewood and...
The impact of stock theft
By Jess de KlerkStock theft is an emotional topic for farmers but the full impact has not yet been realized. Most farmers seems...
Malaria affects millions of people, educating South Africans is important
Though the majority of South Africans have been largely spared the devastation of malaria – which killed almost half a million Africans in 2019...
Kenyan entrepreneurs find fortunes in insect feeds
Livestock farmers in sub-Saharan Africa have grappled with an incessant price rise of animal feeds in recent years – caused by the scarcity and...