How to Stop Weeds From Robbing Crops of Moisture and Nutrients
Weeds are invasive plant species that often interfere with agriculture. They take advantage of healthy soil and steal valuable fluids and nutrients from crops,...
How leveraging technology can help African farmers weather climate change
Case studies across Africa demonstrate the positive impact that access to even the most basic mobile technology can offer smallholder farmers. This underscores the...
Madagascar: 80% of Malagasy at risk of eviction from their land
The law (n°2021-016) passed by both Houses of the Parliament and accepted by the High Constitutional Court in June 2021, overturns all the advances...
Bayer honors three young agricultural leaders with an award supporting the projects they designed...
Three young leaders, each with a passion for sustainable global agriculture, have been named winners of Bayer’s Youth Ag Summit Thrive for Change Awards....
India has strengthened its commitment to fight hunger and poverty in rural areas
India has strengthened its commitment to fight hunger and poverty in rural areas by agreeing to loan US$20 million to the UN’s International Fund...
The African Plant Nutrition Institute held a national-level workshop on adapting the Sustainable Agriculture...
As part of the Belmond Forum funded Sustainable Agriculture Matrix (SAM) Consortium led by the University of Maryland, Center for Environmental Science, the African...
OpEd: Africa’s new harvest: sustainable development by innovation for transformation
Opinion piece by QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
A promising transformation has already started in Africa’s...
Mozambique experts meet to analyse PROMOVE Agribiz success
Senior government and non-governmental organisations officials in Mozambique in the agriculture sector meet this week in Nampula City, to analyse the success of the PROMOVE...
Groundwater could help kickstart green recovery in African countries
African leaders have joined a worldwide thrust for a “green recovery” from the Covid-19 setback and the climate crisis.
According to Bradley Hiller,a former AsiaGlobal...
Family Farmers in Kenya Replace Expensive Fertilizer with “Green Manure”
Fertilizer prices have skyrocketed as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For some years now, family farmers in Kenya’s Kisumu area have replaced...