Kenya’s tea industry has recorded its first decline in export earnings in seven years, a sharp reminder of how global demand shifts and currency movements can quickly ripple through rural economies. For the year ended June 2025, export receipts fell by 13.4 percent to KSh 176.76 billion, down from KSh 204.14 billion the previous year. ...

By Brandon Moss Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Agriculture announced yesterday that it is targeting a staggering 340 percent increase in major crop production for the 2024/25 summer season. The plan, unveiled in Harare, is part of a broader strategy to reduce food imports, stabilize the economy, and restore Zimbabwe’s reputation as a regional breadbasket. The government’s ...

NIGERIA spends upwards of $10 billion annually to import essential food commodities despite having vast arable land, an abundant labour force, and significant agricultural potential, says the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari. This fresh admission reflects decades of neglect and mismanagement, which have trapped the country in import dependency and food poverty. ...

By Brandon Moss  Zimbabwe has unveiled an ambitious plan to increase major crop production by 340% during the 2024/25 summer season, a bold step toward achieving national food self-sufficiency. The initiative, announced by the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, comes in response to widespread crop failures and famine that plagued the ...

According to research released by Oxfam in 2023, seven people across Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan will die of hunger-related causes in the time it takes the average reader to complete this article. All stakeholders in the food and agriculture sectors must recognise that there can no longer be a “business as usual” approach. Something has ...

The Western Cape Department of Agriculture has handed over a R2 million cheque to the Citrus Growers Association (CGA) to support their Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) Programme aimed at suppressing False Codling Moth (FCM). False Codling Moth is a phytosanitary pest affecting export crops including citrus, table grapes, and stone fruit. The programme offers immense ...

By Martin Bahnemann, Agronomist, Netafim South Africa Water is at the very centre of food production on farms. Farmers collect sunshine and convert it into food. Plant leaves are the tools that farmers use to convert sunlight, the energy from the sun, into food. Our job as farmers is to make sure that all factors ...

Farmers sort out climate-smart beans in Machakos, Kenya. (Andrew Kasuku, AP) From ancient fertilizer methods to new greenhouse technology, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are exploring ways to respond to climate change From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking ...

Smallholder farmers are seeing healthy cassava crops grown from clean cassava cuttings (Credit: CABI) Smallholder cassava farmers in Zambia are celebrating success after growing their crops with clean cassava cuttings free from the potentially devastating Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) that threatens livelihoods and food security. Seventy percent of the 500 farmers in the Nsama ...

As the temperatures increase in spring, so do the possibilities when it comes to sowing seeds and planting vegetables. There is a plethora of vegetables that you can plant in April, both indoors and outdoors directly into the garden. In my years of growing vegetables, both professionally and on my plot at home, April is the ...