Increased agricultural trade between African countries can drive sustainable development and play a pivotal role in the transformation of our food systems...
In the past year, waves of the desert locusts have swept across East Africa, Yemen and southwest Asia in massive swarms which have contained up to 80 million in a single square kilometre...
There is an overall increase in area and production under horticultural crops this season, with the area under emerging crops such as blueberries increasing across the provinces...
Elita Chikwati 7 May 2021
We invite you to join us in celebrating Africa Month and matters - its stakeholders and stories - in the areas of business leadership, trade, technologies, arts, culture and brands...
Bizcommunity.com 7 May 2021
Government support for farmers, higher rainfall and grain imports have helped sub-Saharan Africa stave off food insecurity, but the region isn't out of the woods yet...
Wandile Sihlobo 7 May 2021
Brito will step down after 15 years as CEO and 32 years at the company...
The production of major types of citrus fruits, except that of lemons and limes, grew in 2020 thanks to good weather conditions in most producing regions...
FAO Food Price Index posts 11th consecutive monthly increase, new forecasts point to growth in world wheat and maize output...
The contributions that women in West Africa's fisheries make to the sector are widely un(der)paid, undervalued and largely invisible...
Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood and Sayra van den Berg Bhagwandas 4 May 2021
The importance of raw cocoa beans to Ghana's foreign exchange earnings is derailing the development of a viable chocolate industry...
Sophie Van Huellen 3 May 2021
France's development agency will invest $83.04m over the next five years to boost cotton production in Ivory Coast, economy minister Bruno Le Maire said during a visit to the West African country on Thursday.
Ange Aboa 30 Apr 2021
Farmers can help slow climate change by mixing native grasses into croplands, restoring wetlands and raising perennial crops. These strategies also conserve soil and water and build new markets...
The Village Market Africa is the winner of Food Lover's Market's Seeds of Change Supplier Development Partnership, launched to create an opportunity for social enterprises to join the retailer's supplier network...
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has further destabilized global food chains supplies. Technological innovations like blockchain can help address these challenges...
Abdul-Rahim Abdulai, Carling Bieg, Evan Fraser and Sarah Marquis 16 Apr 2021
Heineken has stated a new ambition to decarbonise its production by 2030 and its full value chain by 2040...
According to a new report published by IndexBox, coffee yield figures remained robust in 2020 and coffee bean exports increased, despite the disruption to supply chains caused by the coronavirus restrictions...
A stable ecosystem of organic matter is the key to improving agricultural yields in the surrounding farmland and fighting climate change...
Michele Francis 9 Apr 2021
Vegetable oils drive FAO's Food Price Index higher in March while cereal quotations dip...
Easter is the biggest chocolate-buying time of the year. But who's really paying for the cost of that chocolate?
John Dumay and James Guthrie 6 Apr 2021
Aquaculture is a growing source of healthy protein for millions of people around the world, but there are big differences between farming fish on land and at sea.
Ben Belton, Dave Little and Wenbo Zhang 30 Mar 2021
