by Aimee Gabay The African Development Bank (AfDB) has released agricultural development plans for 40 countries across the continent that outline pathways to improving food security and productivity. But a recent report by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) argues that the AfDB initiative, which seeks to industrialize African food systems at a cost ...

Africa plans to become a global food exporter by 2050, as the continent currently imports about $50 Billion worth of agricultural products per year. This goal is expected to be achieved through the AfCFTA agreement where Intra-African agricultural trade is projected to increase by 574% after the elimination of Import tariffs by 2030. By the year 2035, the total exports ...

Unless the federal and state governments stopped playing lip services and take seriously agricultural programmes in Nigeria, hunger, hardship and high cost of living would continue to plague the citizens. This was the position of scientists and agricultural experts in different interview with Sunday Telegraph. The experts, over the hard- ships occasioned by food in- ...

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has stated that it is reviewing its local food procurement and will only buy food in Nigeria when the prices become stable. The organisation disclosed this in a news release where he stated that a monitoring exercise in Borno, Yobe and Kano states revealed the skyrocketing inflation in ...

The Lagos State Government has launched a partnership programme with Niger and Kwara states towards bridging food supply-demand gaps under the Produce-4-Lagos initiative. As a market-city State, Lagos is consumer-centric and requires large quantities of food to cater for its population’s needs. Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusanya, during a meeting with her counterparts, ...

Mr. Kgabeng, 24,  is co-founder of Anton Tech – an AI research company that seeks to transform the agriculture industry. He spoke to Nathan Hastings-Spaine for Africa Renewal about his start-up: Many brilliant ideas never come to pass because someone was afraid to go out and offer their solution to the world. Lose your fear of failure because ...

Agriculture experts have advocated “smart farming practices” to combat climate change, improve productivity and enhance food security in the country. They noted that if climate change challenges were not nipped in the bud, more than 52 per cent of the country’s agricultural production would be threatened by 2050. The experts, under the aegies of The ...

The challenges facing Spanish agri-food companies can be summed up in the lack of generational replacement, the scarcity of water and land, the competition for land between photovoltaic plants and investment funds on the one hand and crops on the other, as well as the sharp rise in wage costs and social security contributions, which has ...

FILE – A worker picks avocados from a tree in an orchard at the Afrupro avocado plantation in Tzaneen, South Africa, March 10, 2021. A new report says Africa’s agrifood sector — which involves the processing, packaging and selling of locally produced food — could be the key to boosting employment rates, income and food ...

This week FAO will conclude an eight-month assessment of Zimbabwe’s food control system with a final workshop in the city of Kadoma, where high-level executives are expected to endorse the recommendations of the final report and commit to implementing its strategic plan. The assessment is part of “Strengthening of Capacities and Governance in Food and ...