Murang’a Cooperative Union announces minimum guaranteed price
Murang’a Cooperative Union in Kenya has announced that farmers who supply their coffee to the union will benefit from minimum guaranteed price for cherry...
Malawi launches forest landscape restoration
The government has launched forest landscape restoration (FLR) targeting 25 000 hectares (ha) of degraded landscapes in Ntcheu district.The Food and Agriculture Organization of...
Zimbabwe to train 2million famers in conservation agriculture
The government of Zimbabwe is set to train nearly 2 million farmers in conservation agriculture. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations...
Aldi funds vegetable packhouse to help smallholder growers in Kenya
Aldi UK has funded construction of a vegetable packhouse in Kenya to help smallholder growers. The project is part work of international NGO Farm...
The on-trend fruit bowl display is good news for the industry
Paging through the current decor magazines, like House Beautiful UK, what jumps off the page in addition to the glorious interiors featured is the...
Toam, Tanzania to partner with Ministry for organic farming
The Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM) in collaboration with the government through the Ministry of Agriculture is planning to organise their second National Ecological...
Japan supports farmers in Nigeria with rice seeds, inputs
Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) in partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), empowered 150 rice farmers with improved...
Nigerian firm receives US $5M UN credit to boost small-scale farmers
Private Sector Financing Programme (PSFP), a new financing programme launched by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has announced its first loan...
Agriculture stakeholders in Africa seeks collaboration to bridge production gap
Agriculture stakeholders in Africa are seeking the government to collaborate with the private sector to build resilient food systems to bridge the widening gap...
Morocco to receive US $178M support for new agricultural strategy
The Kingdom of Morocco is set to receive US $178milion from the French Development Agency (AFD) destined to support the country’s new agricultural strategy...