A herd of cattle in Oromia in Ethiopia. ANALYSIS By Anja Gassner, Philip Dobie and Terry Sunderland The UN Convention on Biological Diversity is a treaty that aims to develop national strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of a country’s natural resources, or biological diversity. This is a general strategy that all countries must ...

Image:Getty Images The H-2A visa – for temporary workers performing agricultural services – allows South Africans to enter the US despite the current travel ban. Second only to Mexico, H-2A visa holders from South Africa are in highest demand. South Africans who have experience in driving tractors, trucks, and combine harvesters on farms are especially ...

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) on Wednesday signed protocols to disburse a $14 million grant to the Government of South Sudan to boost agricultural markets in a project to be implemented by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The Agricultural Markets, Value Addition and Trade Development (AMVAT) project aims to enhance agricultural productivity and ...