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 ...

Cary Fowler stands in front of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which he co-founded.Credit: Hemis/Alamy Stock Photo Agriculturist Cary Fowler is best known as former executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust and co-founder of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which houses more than 1.2 million seed samples covering every crop variety imaginable on an island in ...

Minnesota’s top ag official points to one African country that could unlock export opportunities throughout the continent. Commissioner Thom Petersen recently returned from a trade mission to Morocco and says the focus was on grain, feed, and the Port of Duluth. “Keep in mind too, Morocco is the only African country that has a free ...