Practical Action partners with Mastercard, initiates a project to benefit 100,000 young women and...
Practical Action, UK registered development charity and the Mastercard Foundation have partnered to establish the Resilient Agriculture that Works for Young People (RAY) project...
Animal welfare activists increase calls to ban cage system poultry farming in East Africa
Animal welfare activists in East Africa region continue to call on governments to ban on cage system in poultry farming terming the system as...
African leader Gerardine Mukeshimana joins UN rural development agency IFAD as Vice-President
Amid growing global food insecurity and an intensifying climate crisis, Gerardine Mukeshimana takes up duties today as Vice-President of the UN’s International Fund for...
Meet Kenya’s university graduate rearing rabbits both for pleasure and cash
Around 2016 when Emmanuel Eddionyi started rabbit rearing as a childhood hobby at his parents’ home at Stella, Migori County his was to have...
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...