The workshop included training about how and why gender is considered a social construct, how gender norms influence agricultural production, and what time poverty is. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A team of Penn State researchers recently held a workshop in Ghana, exploring how gender affects dynamics within the agriculture industry. The trip ...

A free mobile app for chicken farmers is set to make optimal poultry nutrition easier, while also helping farmers save money and improve profits. The new FeedMixer App is designed by poultry nutrition experts at the Poultry Science Department at the University of Georgia in the US and funded by the World Poultry Foundation, to ...

Despite little VC capital, South Africa’s agritech sector is pushing ahead. TechCabal caught up with a few to get more info on their contributions to SA’s breadbasket sector. According to Wandile Sihlobo, an agriculture economist and author, technology has played a significant role in making South Africa’s agricultural sector the most advanced on the continent.  ...

Expectations are high that this week’s Africa Climate Summit in Kenya will provide momentum to unlock significant public and private sector investments in climate-related endeavors across the continent. Investments are especially needed for millions of small-scale farmers across Africa. They provide most of the region’s employment and food and are facing the worst impacts of ...

Dr Stella Kabiri, Lead Regenerative Agriculture at Sasakawa Africa Association Can Africa’s farmers produce “more with less”? Recently, profound global food supply shocks, intensified by climate change, the war in Ukraine and the effects of the pandemic, have disproportionately affected poorer and vulnerable populations in Africa. The Food Crises 2022 Global report revealed over 140 million people ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Cyril Ramaphosa. When considering the BRICS+ grouping from an agricultural perspective, the opportunities for increasing trade and investment from a South African perspective primarily lay in China, India, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. File Picture: IOL When considering the BRICS+ grouping from an agricultural perspective, the opportunities for ...

Dr. Dorothy Effa A Policy Officer at AGRA, Dr. Dorothy Effa, has said that agricultural insurance could provide a solution to the challenges farmers encounter when applying for loans from banks. According to a recent study by the Institute of Climate and Environmental Governance (ICEG), smallholder farmers in the northern regions primarily rely on Village ...

Food insecurity is still observed in the country with the highest levels of acute food insecurity Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Stressed (IPC Phase 2). The acute food insecurity Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes are concentrated in the Tillabéry and Tahoua regions as well as in Diffa and Maradi regions, where the persistence of terrorist ...

DCC Accelerator enables thriving business opportunities for SMEs Globally, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) wrestle with the daunting task of getting their products and services in front of the decision-makers in large companies.  Even when they succeed, a series of roadblocks can derail potential opportunities causing them to miss out on transformative contracts. To help ...

The second phase of the Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) programme is now underway. Coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), this sustainable wildlife management programme will run until May 2029. Additional funding of €25 million has just been made available by the European Union (EU). At the beginning of August ...