Navigating climate change: helping Malagasy farmers safeguard their livelihoods
By Marcelle Ayo, IFC Country Manager for MadagascarBecause of its geographical location and climatic conditions, Madagascar is especially vulnerable to extreme weather events and...
La Niña heavy rains could result limited corn harvest in SA
The increasingly wet conditions in South Africa’s corn-growing regions, brought on by a third consecutive year of La Niña, raise the risk of a...
A unique event on intelligent soil and land use management
Innovate, Integrate, Improve: SINO-EU soil observatoryFollowing a 42month journey, the SIEUSOIL H2020 project is coming to its end. SIEUSOIL has managed to design...
What Impact Will Farm Camping Have on Agriculture?
Agritourism is a booming business. When landowners allow paying visitors to explore their property, it’s a win-win situation — the farmers increase their revenue...
CESCO opens a new logistics and assembly center in southern Germany.
On November 9, the first truck unloaded its shipment at the new CESCO EPC facility in Germany. On a total area of 1,000 m2,...
UK varsity develops pearl millet to help farmers in Africa
Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom (UK) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, based in Niamey, Niger, have developed a...
What’s at the root of Cape Town’s Mushroom Plant-Based Retail Sector
With the plant-based global meat market estimated to reach R404 billion by 2030, retailers are increasingly looking to meet the needs of this ever-increasing,...
‘US$230 mln pledged in Climate Change adaptation’
The COP 27 may have closed two-days later than scheduled but anti-climate change vulnerable states will access an average US$230 million in adaptation by...
Op-ed :The world cannot afford to ignore drought in the Horn of Africa
Joint Op-ed by - By Mohamed Malick Fall, UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Michael Dunford, WFP Regional Director for Eastern Africa,...
African Ministers Explore Ways to Scale up Food Production to Feed the Continent, Bolster...
African agriculture ministers attending the United Nations climate summit in Egypt reiterated a commitment to work with development partners to unlock the continent’s agriculture...