A small scale farmer is thriving despite challenges
By: Fundiswa NkwanyanaSouth Africa’s small-scale farmers are important for food security and alleviating poverty yet many farming businesses are struggling to find land to...
15% global land threatened with desertification due to rising temperatures
An estimated 15% of the world’s land is threatened with desertification due to rising temperatures, the co-founder of climate-data company, Kayrros, Antoine Rostand has...
African clean energy trailblazers lead the way at Kigali energy conference
An impressive new wave of African climate innovators are revealed today at the Humanitarian Energy Conference (HEC) 2022, ahead of the opening of the...
A Surprising Reason For The Failure of Funded Projects
By Dr Nimrod Israely,
It was early May 2021, and I was in Senegal looking to establish a large-scale field demo of Dream Valley....
Global Data Barometer and Land Portal publish benchmarks on state of open land data...
by Wallace MawireThe Data for Development Network, Latin American Open Data Initiative, and the Land Portal Foundation have launched the land module as part...
Saai wants to listen to farmers’ challenges at Nampo Harvest Day
At the Nampo Harvest Day next week, the family farming network Saai wants to hear from farmers themselves what their challenges and threats are....
Zim Agricultural Graduates taking meaningful strides towards economic growth
By Hwande SheunesuSeeing the vast rich soils, beautiful climates, water and human capital well versed in agriculture Mr Oliver Muchazondida could not wait to...
IFAD-continues to help preserve Amazonian forest in Brazil’s poorest state
The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of the State of Maranhão signed a financing agreement today for the implementation...
Cost pressures unrelenting for agriculture as the fuel price outlook shows a steep accent...
Following the Finance Minister’s generous accommodation of an almost two months reprieve in the fuel price that entailed a R1.50c per litre reduction in...
IFAD launches response to protect world’s rural poor against shocks from war in Ukraine
As the war in Ukraine pushes food, fuel and fertilizer prices toward record levels putting food security in many of the world’s poorest countries...