The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the announcement of an additional $10 million from the United States Department of State for projects mapping soil fertility in Ghana and Kenya to promote climate-smart agriculture and adaptation measures, resilient crops, fertilizer use efficiency and soil health. “Not only will the additional ...

The Ministry of Agriculture; over the last three years has been working strongly toward the transformation of farming practices from chemical-based to organic-based or environmentally friendly Agriculture. This goal takes the agricultural practices to a new level of safe and nutritious product. In connection with this, the Ministry through its branch in the central zone, ...

Regenerative agriculture allows companies to demonstrate a commitment to sustainability while keeping their supply chains, products and profits intact. Source: Shutterstock/William Edge Regenerative agriculture has slowly but surely taken over the sustainability programs of America’s food corporations. PepsiCo, ADM, Cargill and General Mills are among the big companies encouraging their suppliers to adopt regenerative practices. Those practices ...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved the Country Strategy Paper (CSP) 2023-2028 for Malawi on 16 November 2023. The strategy focuses on two priority areas: improving economic infrastructure to develop the industrial sector by investing in energy, transport, water, sanitation, and hygiene, and supporting economic diversification through investments in ...

Africa’s food producing opportunity is a trillion-dollar business – but realising this wealth will require specific interventions, African Development Bank (AfDB) president Akinwumi Adesina told the Africa Investment Forum (AIF) Market Days 2023 in Marrakech, Morocco, on 8 November. Launching the private sector-focused Alliance for Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ) project at the event, Adesina ...

The Turkish citrus season will be a longer one this year, and exporters won’t be able to sit still to rest. Okan Eryilmaz, owner of Turkish fruit exporter Tekasya, states their packhouses have been going at full speed for months now: “We’ve had a very fruitful start of the citrus season. Demand has been very ...

Electrifying! A first for South Africa, and a first for Mpumalanga – assembled and proudly produced and manufactured here on home soil. Lowvelder can reveal that Steve Blatherwick, the owner of Electric Powered Vehicles Africa (EPVA), manufactured and assembled its very first electric tractor, and by the looks of things, it is without a doubt ...

From left: Dr. Victor Oladokun, Stakeholder Engagement Adviser to the President, African Development Bank; Professor Oyebanji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Senior Special Advisor to the President, African Development Bank Group; Prof. Benedict Oramah, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Afreximbank; Eng. Hani Sonbol, CEO of International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) and acting CEO of Islamic ...

In Africa, a continent rich in agricultural potential, VeryPay is emerging as a key player in reshaping the agribusiness ecosystem. Integrating seamlessly with any e-wallet, VeryPay provides mobile money operators with a means to offer more than just payment services – it’s a gateway to financial access and inclusion. Current challenges in Africa’s agribusiness ecosystem According to ...

OCP Group, the world’s largest phosphate-based fertilizer producer, the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P), and American agriculture startup Regrow have signed a strategic partnership to develop an MRV (Measuring, Reporting, and Verification) system specific to African soil. The system is based on the biogeochemical “DNDC” model (DeNitrification-DeComposition), a globally calibrated and validated scientific model, recognized ...