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...
Africa Climate Summit – Start Young with School Environmental Clubs
The Africa Climate Summit 23 will be held Sept. 4-6 in Nairobi, Kenya. There will be discussions about how policymakers, businesses, foundations and others...
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...
ABC Fund has financed 28 organisations supporting nearly 600,000 smallholder farmers since 2019
The Agri-Business Capital Fund (‘ABC Fund’) has published its third annual Impact Report. It reports that since its launch in 2019, the ABC Fund...
World Water Week: safeguarding our planet’s most vital resource
Water preservation and management has never been more important and with World Water Week running between 20-24 August, the South African Breweries (SAB)
looks at...
Expectant mothers in rural Africa no longer give birth in darkness, thanks to off-grid...
600 health clinics across sub-Saharan Africa are able to provide care and treatment to patients outside of daylight hours, thanks to solar-powered lights and...
EU backed project launched to better urban food systems in Africa, address poverty and...
AfriFOODlinks urban food systems project, an ambitious four-year initiative funded by the European Union and coordinated by ICLEI Africa has been launched to help...
Boost for Maquassi Hills residents as they receive indigenous chickens and agricultural production inputs
MEC Desbo Mohono of Agriculture and Rural Development in the North West Province today handed over indigenous chickens and other production inputs to a...
Investments in poor small-scale farmers generate significant benefits for climate and environment, says new...
Joint investments in small-scale farming in developing countries not only increase vulnerable rural people’s capacity to cope with the ever-increasing climatic and economic shocks,...
Kenya Breweries in a new deal to continue supporting sorghum farmers
Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) and Murang’a County have signed a deal that will see KBL support farmers growing sorghum in the area.
This is the...