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Image Credit: Hien Phung – stock.adobe.com Climate-smart agriculture helps to achieve development goals, including reducing hunger and poverty by predicting the weather, growing high-value crops and connecting with agriculture experts for assistance. Despite being the world’s lowest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, Africa is becoming increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather events. Countries such as Kenya, which ...

As use of pesticides by African farmers rises, effective strategies are needed, writes Nelson Mandela Ogema. With Africa’s population expected to double by 2050, according to UN estimates, pesticides that can protect crops and increase food production are in increasingly high demand. Between 2000 and 2019, the use of pesticides in agriculture across Sub-Saharan Africa ...

Global value chains will become shorter as regions seek to become resilient Africa dependency for supply of crucial needs like food must be changed through diversification of sources and investing in its own regional specialization for production of goods and services. The future of Africa should be where the EAC produces this, while ECOWAS produces ...

Egypt’s Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation El-Sayed El-Quseir discussed during a meeting in Cairo Oct. 18 with his Gabonese counterpart, Charles Mve Ella, the need to boost bilateral cooperation in various agricultural fields. According to a statement published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Quseir stressed during the meeting the Egyptian government’s support for Gabon, ...