Vodacom’s female farmer programme shines the spotlight on emerging small scale farmers in rural...
350 small-scale female farmers in Limpopo province alone have been trained through this programme to date.JOHANNESBURG - In a move that creates equal opportunities...
Climate-smart, conservation practices pays off in Zambia
Through a Community Markets of Conversation (COMACO) model for rural development, 179,000 farmers across eastern Zambia – 52% of whom are women – have benefited...
New CASA programme to benefit 565,000 smallholders in Uganda, Malawi and Nepal
A new five-year £30 million UK Department for International Development (DFID) funded programme is aiming to improve the livelihoods of 565,000 smallholder farmers and...
Access to finance, training and entrepreneurship critical to building SA’s black farming community
This is according to AFGRI’s recently-renamed Lemang Agricultural Services, created specifically to train, develop and mentor new era farmers, and focused on the further...
IFAD launches global campaign to close gender gap in agriculture and amplify the voices...
On International Women’s Day, the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will kick off a campaign aimed at closing the gender gap...
Homegrown African seed companies outperform multinational peers in serving smallholder farmers
East African Seed and Seed Co top Access to Seeds Index for Eastern and Southern Africa
Seed industry efforts to reach smallholders...
Cargill holds educational seminars in Nairobi for Kenyan farming community
Some of the farmers and millers at the Cargill seminar
Cargill’s recent educational seminars held in Nairobi at the end of February were well attended...
John Deere Welcomes Initiatives to Support Emerging Farmers Announced in 2019 Budget
Jacques Taylor - John Deere MD Africa
John Deere has welcomed the R3.7billion allocation announced in the 2019 Budget Speech to assist emerging black farmers...
Op-ed: Strengthening Africa’s trade links through stronger Sanitary and Phytosanitary capabilities
Ghana’s vegetable exports continue after improvements to its SPS capabilities
By Dr Dennis Rangi – Director General – Development, CABILike many of my fellow Africans,...
AFGRI Technology Services partners with TuksNovation to drive agricultural innovation in SA
AFGRI Technology Services (“ATS”), which focuses on the development and implementation of agricultural technology (“AgTech”) solutions, will be partnering with the University of Pretoria’s...












