BY TOM JACKSON Heifer International, a global non-profit working to end hunger and poverty through sustainable farming, has released a report highlighting how tens of thousands of smallholder African farmers have seen their livelihoods transformed by a tech-driven mechanisation initiative.   The report, titled “Mechanisation for Africa: Innovative Financing for Agricultural  Transformation and Youth Job Creation”, ...

Sophisticated, large-scale commercial farming can improve food security and global trade for African countries, but its success depends on investment and the rule of law. A vendor prepares corn grain for sale at a market in the Mbare district of Harare, Zimbabwe, on March 11, 2024. A swath of southern Africa about the size of ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Subregional Coordinator for Southern Africa, Patrice Talla paid a courtesy visit to His Excellency, Umberto Malnati, the Italian Ambassador to Zimbabwe at his offices in Harare. The courtesy visit is part of existing and ongoing collaborative programmes between Italy and FAO to promote agriculture investment ...

Workshop participants. Seated in the front row, Demba Sabally, Ministry of Agriculture (sixth from L), Mod Seck, Ministry of Agriculture PS ( fifth from L) Malick Ndiaye, WFP Deputy Director (2nd from R), AfDB’s Philip Boahen (4th from R). At the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Center in Banjul, The Gambia, 50 participants attended ...

The time has come for a deliberate policy of government on sustainable food self-sufficiency in Nigeria for social safety and security. Food security-the availability, accessibility, and affordability to meet the dietary needs of individuals-is a critical global issue that cannot be treated with levity. Food is everything. It is national security, it’s the economy, it ...

A total of 45 countries and regions worldwide are in need of external assistance for food, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has warned. The FAO’s latest “Crop Prospects and Food Situation” report, which is published triannually, indicates that due to factors such as regional conflicts and adverse weather conditions, 45 ...

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 has announced plans to organize an agriculture and food security summit this year. The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, disclosed this during a meeting with Dr Donal Brown, Associate Vice-President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), on Tuesday in Abuja. He said the summit aimed to bring together ...

By Grace Oluchi Mbah, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Climate Action Africa Nigeria, a nation brimming with potential, faces a significant challenge: climate change. In 2023, Nigeria recorded a decline in rainfall to about 1061 millimeters (mm) compared to 2022, which was about 1137.078 millimeters (mm). These erratic rainfall patterns, combined with rising sea levels of 0.5 ...

Image: African Development Bank What You Need to Know: A “Project for Improving the Inclusive and Sustainable Development of Agricultural Value Chains” ( MAIS VALOR II) has been drawn up this week between the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Mozambican Ministry of Industry and Commerce, who signed a memorandum of understanding this ...