Modernizing Agriculture: African Development Fund Project Changes Lives in Benin’s Ouémé Valley
The sun rises early over Djeffa, a locality in southeastern Benin’s Sèmè-Podji district where Justine Gantekpin is already tending to her flourishing vegetable farm....
Solidaridad Provides Over 80,000 Tea Seedlings to Uplift Farmers in Thyolo District, Malawi
In a major step towards empowering smallholder farmers in Thyolo, Malawi, Solidaridad has provided over 80,000 tea seedlings to more than 1,000 farmers across...
Packaged Food: Convenience, Innovation, and Health
The demand for quick, easy, and nutritious meals has grown exponentially. Enter the packaged food industry, a sector that has evolved dramatically over the...
Another growing season for Grodan and Signify to pioneer additional energy efficiency improvements and...
Grodan, the global leader in supplying innovative, sustainable stone wool growing media solutions for the professional horticulture industry, has teamed up again with Signify,...
Engineer follows his passion and builds a thriving agro-processing business
By Terrena Rathanlall
Transitioning from a stable corporate career to entrepreneurship is a bold move, and for many, it can be an uphill battle to...
Flood Ready … Big pumps deliver more
With weather extremes becoming more common, farming communities are becoming increasingly aware of the need to plan for flash floods and sustained rain events.
One...
Opinion piece: When farms burn
Theo de Jager
In a blink of an eye disasters can destroy family farms that have been established for generations. Hail storms, drought, floods, intense...
75 percent of farmers are open to innovation to cope with climate change, global...
75 percent of farmers are already impacted by climate change or worried about its impacts, and 71 percent of them report reduced yields as...
Bigger and smarter investments in small-scale agriculture are key to build a prosperous Africa
“Our first line of action against climate change, hunger and poverty is prosperous rural communities. Investing in small-scale farmers and rural entrepreneurs is the ...
France considering new control measures against African Swine Fever, aims to safeguard its pork...
France is contemplating building a fence along its border with Germany as part of new measures to prevent the spread of African Swine Fever...