IFAD President at UNGA: “The climate crisis hinders efforts to eradicate hunger and poverty”
World leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), to rebuild trust, reignite solidarity among nations and rescue the UN's...
AfDB approves $20 million to improve business environment and drive investments to climate-smart agriculture
The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund , the African Development Bank Group’s concessional lending window, has approved a grant of $19.98...
Upscaling and risk-layering for climate resilience in Malawi
African Risk Capacity (ARC) Ltd. has come on board to assist the Malawi Government with an insurance innovation that will scale up the World...
FAO, IsDB, and IFAD Collaborate to Strengthen Food Security Technologies for Smallholder Farmers
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have...
Now is the time to start cutworm control
By Hanlie Geldenhuys, Marketing Lead at Syngenta.
Cutworm control must start before the first larva hatches. With maize planting season fast approaching, growers need...
World’s best new start-up’- Emata-completes $2.4 million seed fund raise
Emata - the agricultural finance solution for East African farmers - announces its successful completion of a $2.4 million seed fund raise, comprising $800,000...
Woolworths and WWF South Africa celebrate 15 years of pioneering partnership for sustainable future
In an exciting milestone, Woolworths, a global leader in responsible retailing, and WWF South Africa marked a significant moment of collaboration, reaffirming their steadfast...
50 African female policy practitioners joins fellowship to work on gender-responsive agri-food policies
50 female policy practitioners from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda and Senegal join a Fellowship designed to help catalyze the design and implementation...
Agro-rural tourism allows city travellers to escape from urban life and re-discover rural roots...
The overall market progressed from US$ 76.7 billion in 2018, with an average yearly growth rate of 4% until 2022. By the end of...
Integrating Sustainability Standards in South–South Trade Policies Can Improve Producers’ Livelihoods in Developing Countries,...
Trade between developing countries and regions—known as “South–South trade”—is growing rapidly. In the past couple of decades, its value has grown almost tenfold, from...