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Farmers work at a cocoa farm in Daloa, Ivory Coast, 3 October 2023. Reuters/Ange Aboa/File Photo

EU will not delay deforestation law, environment chief says on Ivory Coast visitAnge Aboa

WorldFish, Norway collaborate on climate-smart aquaculture tech in Egypt

WorldFish, Norway collaborate on climate-smart aquaculture tech in Egypt

11 Jul 2023

Nigeria is Africa's leading rice producer, but still needs more - reusing wastewater for irrigation would boost farming

Nigeria is Africa's leading rice producer, but still needs more - reusing wastewater for irrigation would boost farming

By Christopher Oluwakunmi Akinbile 22 Jun 2023

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Fall armyworms on march across Africa

Fall armyworms on march across Africa

Sora Halake 19 Jul 2017

Urban wastewater for food security: Averting the next health crisis in Africa

Urban wastewater for food security: Averting the next health crisis in Africa

Christopher A. Scott 18 Jul 2017

#CSIMonth: An opportunity to use commercial enterprises to ensure global food security

#CSIMonth: An opportunity to use commercial enterprises to ensure global food security

Cari Coetzee 18 Jul 2017

Africa's tropical forests could be next in line as global food demand grows

Africa's tropical forests could be next in line as global food demand grows

Elsa Ordway 13 Jul 2017

ICRAF presents the role of evidence and improved soil management for land restoration in sub-Saharan Africa

Susan Onyango 12 Jul 2017

Ton Rulkens via - Ancuabe district of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique (2011)

New project to transform forest management in Mozambique

12 Jul 2017

Smallholder farmers in Kenya in the race against climate change

Susan Onyango 11 Jul 2017

Food commodity prices to remain low over next decade - OECD, FAO

Food commodity prices to remain low over next decade - OECD, FAO

10 Jul 2017

Growing food in the post-truth era

Alana Mann 6 Jul 2017

Kate HoltAusAID via WC_farming_climate_change_Kenya

How a lack of access to reliable weather data is hurting African farmers

Stephen Yeboah 5 Jul 2017

mute_gemini via

Global status of commercialised biotech/GM crops

4 Jul 2017

EkoFarmer: High-tech turnkey solution for businesses who want to grow their own

EkoFarmer: High-tech turnkey solution for businesses who want to grow their own

28 Jun 2017

Demonstration farms showcase agricultural techniques and technologies to improve crops. Flickr/Remi Nono-Womdim, FAO (Source: The Conversation)

Demonstration farms can help revolutionise African agriculture

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi 27 Jun 2017

7raysmarketing via

Pursuing sustainable soil management to combat soil pollution

26 Jun 2017

Drought and jobless, hopeless youth, fertile grounds for extremism

Drought and jobless, hopeless youth, fertile grounds for extremism

26 Jun 2017

#YouthMonth: Entrepreneur has high hopes for castor oil producing company in Africa

#YouthMonth: Entrepreneur has high hopes for castor oil producing company in Africa

Cari Coetzee 22 Jun 2017

FAO distributes seeds and fertilisers to a million people in north-east Nigeria

22 Jun 2017

Africa could help feed the world - if its fertile land doesn't vanish

Younouss Youn 21 Jun 2017

IITA Director General Nteranya Sanginga (right) welcomes the Nigerian Minister of Finance, the Hon. Kemi Adeosun (left) to IITA, Ibadan. Photo: O. Adebayo, IITA

Nigerian Minister of Finance encourages national roll out of youth agri programme

20 Jun 2017

BRICS countries have an important role to play in achieving SDGs

BRICS countries have an important role to play in achieving SDGs

20 Jun 2017

Climate imperils Ethiopia's coffee output: study

Climate imperils Ethiopia's coffee output: study

20 Jun 2017

Zambia hotels winning at sustainability with agricultural and entrepreneurship projects

Zambia hotels winning at sustainability with agricultural and entrepreneurship projects

20 Jun 2017

Technology, like this tea-picking machine in Kenya, can harness agriculture’s power to change lives. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya

Science has the power to boost farming in Africa. But a lot has to change

Frans Swanepoel 19 Jun 2017

L-R: Deputy Governor, Osun State, Titilayo Laoye-Tomori; Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola; and Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Dr Nteranya Sanginga at the commissioning of IITA Research and Training Farm in Ago Owu

New research station to empower Nigerian farmers in modern agriculture

14 Jun 2017

President of the Republic of Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba, announces the creation of 20 marine protected areas during his speech at the headquarters of the United Nations

Gabon creates network of marine protected areas

13 Jun 2017

Leo-setä via - Mesembryanthemum plant can revive within a short period of time after a drought

Jill Farrant on breeding drought-resistant crops

12 Jun 2017

Kate HoltAusAID via

Disrupted agriculture, high food prices deepens food insecurity in Africa

12 Jun 2017

Africa feeling the heat of climate change

Dan Shepard 2 Jun 2017

Sustainable forestry: Striking the right balance for investors and the man on the street

Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais 2 Jun 2017

Digitised loan payments a boost for smallholder farmers in Kenya

Digitised loan payments a boost for smallholder farmers in Kenya

1 Jun 2017

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#CSIMonth: An opportunity to use commercial enterprises to ensure global food security

#CSIMonth: An opportunity to use commercial enterprises to ensure global food security

Cari Coetzee 18 Jul 2017

Africa's tropical forests could be next in line as global food demand grows

Africa's tropical forests could be next in line as global food demand grows

Elsa Ordway 13 Jul 2017

ICRAF presents the role of evidence and improved soil management for land restoration in sub-Saharan Africa

Susan Onyango 12 Jul 2017

Ton Rulkens via - Ancuabe district of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique (2011)

New project to transform forest management in Mozambique

12 Jul 2017

Smallholder farmers in Kenya in the race against climate change

Susan Onyango 11 Jul 2017

Food commodity prices to remain low over next decade - OECD, FAO

Food commodity prices to remain low over next decade - OECD, FAO

10 Jul 2017

Growing food in the post-truth era

Alana Mann 6 Jul 2017

Kate HoltAusAID via WC_farming_climate_change_Kenya

How a lack of access to reliable weather data is hurting African farmers

Stephen Yeboah 5 Jul 2017

mute_gemini via

Global status of commercialised biotech/GM crops

4 Jul 2017

EkoFarmer: High-tech turnkey solution for businesses who want to grow their own

EkoFarmer: High-tech turnkey solution for businesses who want to grow their own

28 Jun 2017

Demonstration farms showcase agricultural techniques and technologies to improve crops. Flickr/Remi Nono-Womdim, FAO (Source: The Conversation)

Demonstration farms can help revolutionise African agriculture

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi 27 Jun 2017

7raysmarketing via

Pursuing sustainable soil management to combat soil pollution

26 Jun 2017

Drought and jobless, hopeless youth, fertile grounds for extremism

Drought and jobless, hopeless youth, fertile grounds for extremism

26 Jun 2017

#YouthMonth: Entrepreneur has high hopes for castor oil producing company in Africa

#YouthMonth: Entrepreneur has high hopes for castor oil producing company in Africa

Cari Coetzee 22 Jun 2017

FAO distributes seeds and fertilisers to a million people in north-east Nigeria

22 Jun 2017

Africa could help feed the world - if its fertile land doesn't vanish

Younouss Youn 21 Jun 2017

IITA Director General Nteranya Sanginga (right) welcomes the Nigerian Minister of Finance, the Hon. Kemi Adeosun (left) to IITA, Ibadan. Photo: O. Adebayo, IITA

Nigerian Minister of Finance encourages national roll out of youth agri programme

20 Jun 2017

BRICS countries have an important role to play in achieving SDGs

BRICS countries have an important role to play in achieving SDGs

20 Jun 2017

Climate imperils Ethiopia's coffee output: study

Climate imperils Ethiopia's coffee output: study

20 Jun 2017

Zambia hotels winning at sustainability with agricultural and entrepreneurship projects

Zambia hotels winning at sustainability with agricultural and entrepreneurship projects

20 Jun 2017

Technology, like this tea-picking machine in Kenya, can harness agriculture’s power to change lives. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya

Science has the power to boost farming in Africa. But a lot has to change

Frans Swanepoel 19 Jun 2017

L-R: Deputy Governor, Osun State, Titilayo Laoye-Tomori; Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola; and Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Dr Nteranya Sanginga at the commissioning of IITA Research and Training Farm in Ago Owu

New research station to empower Nigerian farmers in modern agriculture

14 Jun 2017

President of the Republic of Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba, announces the creation of 20 marine protected areas during his speech at the headquarters of the United Nations

Gabon creates network of marine protected areas

13 Jun 2017

Leo-setä via - Mesembryanthemum plant can revive within a short period of time after a drought

Jill Farrant on breeding drought-resistant crops

12 Jun 2017

Kate HoltAusAID via

Disrupted agriculture, high food prices deepens food insecurity in Africa

12 Jun 2017

Africa feeling the heat of climate change

Dan Shepard 2 Jun 2017

Sustainable forestry: Striking the right balance for investors and the man on the street

Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais 2 Jun 2017

Digitised loan payments a boost for smallholder farmers in Kenya

Digitised loan payments a boost for smallholder farmers in Kenya

1 Jun 2017

miguelibars via - Prickly pear

Africa must re-adopt its orphan crops in the face of a changing environment

Ethel Phiri, Palesa Natasha Mothapo 31 May 2017

Kate HoltAusAID via

FAO calls for sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems

31 May 2017

MarvinBikolano via

Highly contagious disease can decimate tilapia populations

29 May 2017

Elanco receives $2.86m grant to address food insecurity in East Africa

Elanco receives $2.86m grant to address food insecurity in East Africa

25 May 2017

GlobalG.A.P. presents new TR4 Biosecurity Add-On for Bananas

GlobalG.A.P. presents new TR4 Biosecurity Add-On for Bananas

23 May 2017

Introducing the Greenhouse In a Box

16 May 2017

William Creighton via

Study reveals the gender gap in Tanzania, Uganda climate policies

Mariola Acosta Francés, Edidah Lubega Ampaire, Lau 16 May 2017

Rainfall set to boost growth in southern Africa

Rainfall set to boost growth in southern Africa

Steve Johnson 8 May 2017

Invest in agriculture, Africa urged

Invest in agriculture, Africa urged

Victoria Ruzvidzo 5 May 2017

#AfricaMonth: The Africa market deserves respect - Wood-Mizer

#AfricaMonth: The Africa market deserves respect - Wood-Mizer

Sindy Peters 4 May 2017

Kenya eyes blue economy to net more from fishing

Kenya eyes blue economy to net more from fishing

Winnie Atieno 4 May 2017

Young Africans create new roads for agriculture

Pius Sawa, Reuters 28 Apr 2017