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African Agri Investment Indaba targets transformative change in agriculture sector

Africa has vast agricultural potential, so why are we due to import $110 billion worth of food annually by 2025?

Africa has vast agricultural potential, so why are we due to import $110 billion worth of food annually by 2025?

Junior Sabena Mutabazi 2 May 2017

Young Africans create new roads for agriculture

Pius Sawa, Reuters 28 Apr 2017

Govt unveils crop disease quarantine

Runyararo Muzavazi 24 Apr 2017

The challenge ahead: Harnessing gene editing to sustainable agriculture

The challenge ahead: Harnessing gene editing to sustainable agriculture

Nteranya Sanginga 31 Mar 2017

Carl Davies, CSIRO via - Cowpeas are a staple food and an important source of protein for over200 million people in sub-Saharan Africa.

Pulses, powerful allies in achieving Sustainable Development Goals

13 Feb 2017

Why microbes are key to solving Africa's food security crisis

Why microbes are key to solving Africa's food security crisis

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi 3 Feb 2017

Fertilisers can help African farmers battle climate change

Fertilisers can help African farmers battle climate change

Charlotte Hebebrand 10 Nov 2016

Organic farming gets a bad rap - why it shouldn't

Organic farming gets a bad rap - why it shouldn't

Raymond Auerbach 1 Nov 2016

Bernard Gagnon via - Tef in Ethiopia

Ethiopia Soil Map arms farmers with new fertilisers in climate fight

Pius Sawa 30 Sep 2016

'Less choice for African farmers' after Bayer's Monsanto takeover

'Less choice for African farmers' after Bayer's Monsanto takeover

Wanjiru Eunice 19 Sep 2016

- Simnai and Phillip Tshuma, smallholder farmers from Hwange, Zimbabwe, show off their sorghum crop planted using fertilizers. Photo: Busani Bafana

Innovative use of fertilisers revives hope for Africa's Green Revolution

Busani Bafana 5 Sep 2016

KKB via _Burkina Faso: cotton harvest in Dourtenga

Top African producer bans GM cotton

26 Apr 2016

Digitizing agriculture and growing knowledge

Digitizing agriculture and growing knowledge

Cari Van Wyk 18 Apr 2016

Decline of bees, other pollinators, threatens crop output

29 Feb 2016

15 EU nations opt to stay GMO-free

15 EU nations opt to stay GMO-free

2 Oct 2015

Genetically modified cotton in Africa will harm, not help, smallholder farmers

12 Jun 2015

arindam banerjee via

Africa joins the world in global protest

29 May 2015

Monsanto would sell Syngenta's seed business in merger

Monsanto would sell Syngenta's seed business in merger

22 May 2015

AECI's Mark Dytor is looking for opportunities in other parts of the world because of strikes in SA and the weak state of the economy. Image: AECI

AECI plans to reduce its reliance on a weak SA

Nick Hedley 30 Jul 2014

Practical approaches on how to tackle the global waste problem

Practical approaches on how to tackle the global waste problem

Alan Kahn 13 Sep 2013

Brics leaders look to boost trade with Africa

Brics leaders look to boost trade with Africa

21 Aug 2013

Film festival to focus on forests

Film festival to focus on forests

28 May 2013

Nestle needs to do more for its farmers

Nestle needs to do more for its farmers

29 Mar 2013

If you're content, we're content

If you're content, we're content

Bizcommunity.com 18 Mar 2013

ABN Productions to host Agribusiness Indaba

22 Feb 2013

Nestle remains a target in Zimbabwe

Tawanda Karombo 4 Jan 2013

Top 10 New Year's resolutions for employers

Johan Botes 31 Dec 2012

What went wrong? Lessons from Malawi's food crisis

Masimba Tafirenyika 18 Dec 2012

Mugabe now wants 100% of everything

10 Dec 2012

African Green Revolution Forum commences in Arusha

African Green Revolution Forum commences in Arusha

28 Sep 2012

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Africa has vast agricultural potential, so why are we due to import $110 billion worth of food annually by 2025?

Africa has vast agricultural potential, so why are we due to import $110 billion worth of food annually by 2025?

Junior Sabena Mutabazi 2 May 2017

Young Africans create new roads for agriculture

Pius Sawa, Reuters 28 Apr 2017

Govt unveils crop disease quarantine

Runyararo Muzavazi 24 Apr 2017

The challenge ahead: Harnessing gene editing to sustainable agriculture

The challenge ahead: Harnessing gene editing to sustainable agriculture

Nteranya Sanginga 31 Mar 2017

Carl Davies, CSIRO via - Cowpeas are a staple food and an important source of protein for over200 million people in sub-Saharan Africa.

Pulses, powerful allies in achieving Sustainable Development Goals

13 Feb 2017

Why microbes are key to solving Africa's food security crisis

Why microbes are key to solving Africa's food security crisis

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi 3 Feb 2017

Fertilisers can help African farmers battle climate change

Fertilisers can help African farmers battle climate change

Charlotte Hebebrand 10 Nov 2016

Organic farming gets a bad rap - why it shouldn't

Organic farming gets a bad rap - why it shouldn't

Raymond Auerbach 1 Nov 2016

Bernard Gagnon via - Tef in Ethiopia

Ethiopia Soil Map arms farmers with new fertilisers in climate fight

Pius Sawa 30 Sep 2016

'Less choice for African farmers' after Bayer's Monsanto takeover

'Less choice for African farmers' after Bayer's Monsanto takeover

Wanjiru Eunice 19 Sep 2016

- Simnai and Phillip Tshuma, smallholder farmers from Hwange, Zimbabwe, show off their sorghum crop planted using fertilizers. Photo: Busani Bafana

Innovative use of fertilisers revives hope for Africa's Green Revolution

Busani Bafana 5 Sep 2016

KKB via _Burkina Faso: cotton harvest in Dourtenga

Top African producer bans GM cotton

26 Apr 2016

Digitizing agriculture and growing knowledge

Digitizing agriculture and growing knowledge

Cari Van Wyk 18 Apr 2016

Decline of bees, other pollinators, threatens crop output

29 Feb 2016

15 EU nations opt to stay GMO-free

15 EU nations opt to stay GMO-free

2 Oct 2015

Genetically modified cotton in Africa will harm, not help, smallholder farmers

12 Jun 2015

arindam banerjee via

Africa joins the world in global protest

29 May 2015

Monsanto would sell Syngenta's seed business in merger

Monsanto would sell Syngenta's seed business in merger

22 May 2015

AECI's Mark Dytor is looking for opportunities in other parts of the world because of strikes in SA and the weak state of the economy. Image: AECI

AECI plans to reduce its reliance on a weak SA

Nick Hedley 30 Jul 2014

Practical approaches on how to tackle the global waste problem

Practical approaches on how to tackle the global waste problem

Alan Kahn 13 Sep 2013

Brics leaders look to boost trade with Africa

Brics leaders look to boost trade with Africa

21 Aug 2013

Film festival to focus on forests

Film festival to focus on forests

28 May 2013

Nestle needs to do more for its farmers

Nestle needs to do more for its farmers

29 Mar 2013

If you're content, we're content

If you're content, we're content

Bizcommunity.com 18 Mar 2013

ABN Productions to host Agribusiness Indaba

22 Feb 2013

Nestle remains a target in Zimbabwe

Tawanda Karombo 4 Jan 2013

Top 10 New Year's resolutions for employers

Johan Botes 31 Dec 2012

What went wrong? Lessons from Malawi's food crisis

Masimba Tafirenyika 18 Dec 2012

Mugabe now wants 100% of everything

10 Dec 2012

African Green Revolution Forum commences in Arusha

African Green Revolution Forum commences in Arusha

28 Sep 2012

AgriBusiness Congress highlights investment opportunities

AgriBusiness Congress highlights investment opportunities

12 Sep 2012

China proposes priority areas to boost Africa ties

19 Jul 2012

Ghana makes cocoa-farming fashionable

Ghana makes cocoa-farming fashionable

Zeenat Moorad 14 Jun 2012

Malawi: Environmental journos hail new government

Malawi: Environmental journos hail new government

Gregory Gondwe: @Kalipochi 3 May 2012

SA, Qatar strengthen relations

SA, Qatar strengthen relations

26 Jan 2012

Africa must up its game in business

Africa must up its game in business

Kemantha Govender 5 Dec 2011

SASRI, US biotech company to work on efficient sugarcane

SASRI, US biotech company to work on efficient sugarcane

4 Nov 2011

WTC Africa Initiative and Italy join hands in trade

WTC Africa Initiative and Italy join hands in trade

12 Oct 2011

Investment conference focus on development on Africa

26 Sep 2011

Kenya: Treasury sets aside Sh15 billion for food projects

4 Aug 2011

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