By Diana Tenebe, Chief Operating Officer, FoodStuff Store Nigeria’s agricultural sector has long been a significant contributor to national growth, with the potential to further reduce poverty. This sector, encompassing crop production, livestock, forestry, and fishing, has the potential to hold export opportunities and can strategically become the engine for economic prosperity, given Nigeria’s large ...

Image Credits: Pula Pula, an insurtech based in Kenya, has since 2015 been keen on enhancing the access to agricultural insurance by small-holder farmers across emerging markets, shielding them against losses from pests, diseases and/or extreme weather events like floods and droughts. So far, the insurtech has supported 15.4 million farmers in Africa, Asia and ...

The Lives and Livelihoods Fund’s investments are yielding promising results  in Africa’s farmlands. Our critical financial support to the national governments in 12 African countries is coming at a time when 281 million people in the continent do not have enough food to eat, nearly three-quarters of the African population cannot afford nutritious food, and ...

The Federal Government says smallholder farmers remain the backbone of the country’s agricultural sector as they contribute significantly to national prosperity. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Mr Temitope Fadeshemi, made this submission on Thursday at the training and empowerment of 250 farmers under the National Poverty Reduction with Growth Strategy ...

In the heart of Zimbabwe, small-scale farmers are grappling with a paradox of plenty. Amid the lush fields and bountiful harvests, a crisis of overabundance is causing financial distress. As the sun rises over fields laden with fruits and vegetables, it also casts a shadow over an issue that threatens the livelihoods of these farmers ...

The Nigeria Women for Agricultural Progress (NWAP) have lamented the continued exclusion of women from major government interventions. NWAP stated that women farmers have yet to benefit from over N15 trillion interventions in the agricultural sector from 1999 till date. The National Coordinator of NWAP, Omolara Swenson, while speaking at the ‘Women in Agriculture and ...

By Precious Manomano More than 74 000 hectares have so far been put under summer crops, with experts advising farmers to speed up planting to ensure a bumper harvest in all crops. Farmers have also been advised to spread their cropping to include maize, cotton, traditional grains and tobacco plus late season crops such as ...

By Kathy Short And Chrispin Mwakideu As Africa grapples with the impact of climate change, a UN-funded project is helping women farmers in Zambia to adopt new cultivation methods and remain profitable and productive. Extreme weather conditions threaten the livelihoods of millions of small-scale farmers in Zambia. Rain-fed farmlands haven’t been spared as flood waters ...