10,500 heads of cattle in Zimbabwe succumb due to lack of pasture and drinking...
10 500 heads of cattle have died as a result of lack of pasture and drinking water in three southern provinces of Zimbabwe. This...
Greenpeace Africa on floods across the continent: “Without Climate Action we’ll be queuing for...
Rains have increasingly been torrential in the past months, striking large parts of East Africa and elsewhere, in unprecedented intensity in decades, causing at...
Wefarm secures $13 Million in funding to scale its Smallholder Agricultural Ecosystem
Wefarm the digital network for global small-scale agriculture, today announced it has raised $13 million in a Series A financing round led by Silicon...
AGCO, Equity Kenya sign deal to finance the latter’s customers for agricultural equipment
US- based agrarian equipment manufacturer AGCO and Kenya’s Equity Bank have signed a deal that will see the latter provide up to 80% financing...
Case IH appoints Techno Green for Import to distribute its farm equipment range in...
Farm equipment manufacturer Case IH appoints Techno Green as its distributor in Yemen / The new arrangement will increase Case IH’s presence in the...
Drought-stricken farmers harness solar power to produce livestock feed from the bush
Amidst extreme drought conditions in Namibia, farmers are forced to innovate to ensure the survival of their livestock. A recent study1 proves that the...
Head of UN rural development agency in India to boost efforts to eradicate poverty
Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will meet with government leaders in India this week to strengthen joint...
African Development Bank Funds Angola Initiative to Improve Business Environment and Diversify Exports
L to R: Joohoon Kim, Chargé d’ Affaires of the Republic of Korea in Angola; Moono Mupotola, the Bank’s Director for Regional Development &...
CABI teams up with Koppert to lead biological fight against devastating tomato pest in...
A farm manager checks for Tuta absoluta on tomato crops in Kajiado County, Kenya (photo by; CABI).
CABI has joined forces with world-leading biological control...
CSIR-SARI introduce two improved high-yielding groundnut seed varieties in Ghana
The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI) have introduced two improved high yielding groundnut seed varieties in...