In the last week, Zimbabwe, following both Malawi and Zimbabwe, has declared a drought emergency, requesting US$2 billion in support for purchasing food supplies in the face of large predicted deficits. The total cereal harvest is expected to be around one million tonnes, about half amount of the previous year, leaving a big gap to ...

The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development is assessing the severity of the El Nino induced drought and its impact on crop yields and the financial status of farmers. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Department says the recent Crop Estimates Committee shows that South Africa’s 2023/24 summer grains and oilseed production ...

Zimbabwe is experiencing a historic drought that has compromised most of the crops of the 2024 farming season. That has threatened millions with hunger, and the World Food Program has said it might not be able to assist families in Zimbabwe facing food insecurity. Zimbabwe has seen much of its crops decimated, declaring the 2024 farming ...

The what, why, and how of Zambia’s national state of disaster. Zambian agriculture is facing trials and tribulations as the drought is becoming worse and rain stays away. President Hakainde Hichilema has officially declared Zambia as going through a national disaster. He says that the country has had up to five weeks at a time ...

Scores of smallholding subsistence farmers face miles of withering crop fields in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Government subsidies can help only so much as solutions prove slow to implement. Rain has finally returned to Malawi after weeks and weeks of severe drought, but it’s too little, too late for local farmer Saidi M’madi. In Malawi’s southern region ...