Practical Action partners with Mastercard, initiates a project to benefit 100,000 young women and...
Practical Action, UK registered development charity and the Mastercard Foundation have partnered to establish the Resilient Agriculture that Works for Young People (RAY) project...
Animal welfare activists increase calls to ban cage system poultry farming in East Africa
Animal welfare activists in East Africa region continue to call on governments to ban on cage system in poultry farming terming the system as...
Granot, Israeli avocado producer opens 400 ha farm in Naivasha to boost the fruit...
Granot International Company, one of the biggest producers of avocado from Israel has now opened its 400 hectares production farm at Ndabibi area in...
African leader Gerardine Mukeshimana joins UN rural development agency IFAD as Vice-President
Amid growing global food insecurity and an intensifying climate crisis, Gerardine Mukeshimana takes up duties today as Vice-President of the UN’s International Fund for...
Meet Kenya’s university graduate rearing rabbits both for pleasure and cash
Around 2016 when Emmanuel Eddionyi started rabbit rearing as a childhood hobby at his parents’ home at Stella, Migori County his was to have...
UN signs financial agreement for a seven-year $25.6M project to improve food security in...
The United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of South Sudan have signed a financial agreement...
Luapula Cassava farmers yield benefits from Zambia breweries pact
Brewing giant working to ensure more local farmers venture into cassava farming
Once a humble subsistence crop, cassava is increasingly considered one of Zambia’s most...
Kenya’s Kakamega County inks a deal to export tonnes of fish to Italy
Kakamega County in the western region of Kenya has landed a lucrative deal to export not less than 10 tonnes of fish to Italy...
KZN farmers provide arts education through outreach initiative
Farming families from Eston, KwaZulu-Natal have joined hands to bring the joy of arts education to four local schools in the Mkhambathini district in...
Kenya pumpkin farmers venture into oil, flour making to beat market challenges
Local pumpkin farmers are now taking the venture a notch higher by adding value to the fruit to make high value products such as...