New Representative of the African Union Commission His Excellency Ambassador Moses Vilakati [second person from the right, at front seat], and other international institutions at the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism’s 14th Governing Council meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (The Mechanism) is making significant strides toward closing Africa’s agricultural productivity gap. At ...

Africa, with its vast reserves of fertile yet unused land, abundant workforce, and water resources, has the potential to become a global leader in food production. However, this potential is constrained by critically low fertilizer use, which continues to increase at a worryingly slow rate. At the same time, food security across the continent is ...

The Argus Fertilizer Africa Conference will take place from 10 to 12 February in Cape Town. Africa, with its vast reserves of fertile yet unused land, abundant workforce, and water resources, has the potential to become a global leader in food production. However, this potential is constrained by critically low fertilizer use, which continues to ...

Some farmers and Nigerians had been brainwashed in the country about GMO seeds and, therefore, seemed to be in the dark when it came to food security. A renowned brand manager and Ambassador for the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Micheal Nwabufo, has urged the National Assembly to take decisions against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) foods ...

Project amount: $2 million Approval date: September 2023 Status: On-going Project Description This project consists of a $2 million partial trade credit guarantee and a $877,980 grant from the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism to the African Fertilizer Agribusiness Partnership for the Fertilizer Financing for Sustainable Agriculture Management project in Mozambique. The project aims to increase ...

Project amount: $2 million Approval date: October 2023 Status: On-going Project Description This project consists of a $2 million partial trade credit guarantee and a $219,000 grant from the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism to Apollo Agriculture Limited(link is external) for the Fertilizer Financing for Sustainable Agriculture Management project in Kenya. The project has four components: ...

The African Energy Chamber commends the partnership between Afreximbank, AMUFERT, OPAIA and Sonagas to establish a fertilizer plant in Soyo, Angola LUANDA, Angola, July, 2024/ — Pan-African multilateral financial institution the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) will support the establishment of Ammonia and Urea Fertilizer’s (AMUFERT) fertilizer plant in Soyo, Angola with a $1.4 billion financing ...

Digital data and tools enable smallholder farmers to have the best information and advice on how to sustainably use fertilizer as part of an integrated crop management (ICM) approach to agriculture. Photo: CABI Africa’s 33 million smallholder farmers must triple fertilizer use on the continent over the next decade to double agricultural production and meet ...

Mozambique’s Port of Nacala. Source: Oriental Consultants Global Malawi is positioning itself as a multimodal transhipment country linking landlocked neighbours such as Zambia with burgeoning ports in northern Mozambique. Apart from upgrading existing road infrastructure and expanding its logistical network through the support of the US foreign aid agency’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MMC), Malawi is ...

Fred Khanganya, a farmer selling his goods at the Lizulu Market in Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital and largest city, has been standing by his pile of cabbage and Irish potatoes for hours, hoping to turn his harvest into hard cash. But the money isn’t coming.A section of the Lizulu Market in Lilongwe, Malawi. Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman/The ...