As part of the effort, Nigerian lawmakers are engaging with major agricultural economies and development partners, including Malaysia, the European Union, Brazil, China, Germany, India, and the United Kingdom. According to Sharafadeen Alli, chairman of the committee, these partnerships are designed to leverage global expertise in areas such as mechanisation, research collaboration, and modern farming ...

Participants in the Circo Massimo Farmers’ Market. (Photo courtesy of CIDSE)  As African and European leaders met to shape agricultural policy, farmers and civil society groups gathered nearby to raise urgent concerns over the future of farming in Africa, calling especially on protection for traditional seed systems and a ban on the export of toxic ...

Vice President Kashim Shettima. Photo: State House A few days ago, Nigeria and Brazil formalized a $1 billion agreement under the Green Imperative initiative, aimed at transforming Nigeria’s agricultural sector. The deal, signed at the State House in Abuja during the 2nd Nigeria–Brazil Strategic Dialogue Mechanism, was led by Vice President Kashim Shettima and Brazil’s ...

Rural women in South Africa continue to bear the brunt of triple oppression due to their race, class, and gender; hence, it is not a coincidence that in their majority they have not managed to achieve economic freedom. Image: Supplied This past week, the world, including South Africa, commemorated International Women’s Day. As we reflect ...

For Africa, a continent where the dream of feeding herself was elusive even before climate change, the future of agriculture is rather uncertain. “There’s a need for Africa to rethink her approach to agriculture,” Ambassador Gurjit Singh, Intellecap board chair, said recently during the 11th Sankalp Africa Summit 2024 held in Nairobi, Kenya. He added that for African agriculture, ...

2024 SIEMA EXPO is one of the special food products, food processing, packaging, and food machinery exhibitions in the international market organized by Elan Expo. This year’s event will hold from October 1st -3rd, 2024 at Casablanca, Morocco. We are growing annually in the Moroccan market; we are enlarging our international exhibitor scope according to our previous years ...

Image credit: iStock Breaking ‘the vicious cycle’ for smallholder farmers Founders Madhur Jain (CEO), Ankita Garg (COO) and Vishal Kuchanur (CTO) all have backgrounds in agriculture (in addition to biotech and software), which propelled them to start the company in 2022. Varaha named itself after the avatar of Hindu deity Vishnu, best known for lifting ...

To address food security in the long term, the focus must shift from crisis response to investment in resilient, durable systems. Finding ways to facilitate lending to smallholders, who comprise the vast majority of African farmers, is key to unlocking potential and breaking the cycle of subsistence farming. Learn more about the Sustainable Development Impact ...

In a significant development, Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, has entered into a multi-billion-dollar agreement with an Indian investment agency, Invest India, to bolster infrastructure projects encompassing power, rail systems, warehousing, and ports. The CEO of Infrastructure Corporation of Nigeria Limited (InfraCorp), a government-backed infrastructure entity, Lazarus Angbazo, disclosed this during an interview ...

FILE- Laborers stack rice in a private warehouse in Makhu, in the Indian state of Punjab, March 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File) India’s decision to halt some rice exports to prevent high prices at home has had affects stretching across Asia to Africa, observers say. Rice prices in Kenya, for example, jumped when Russia ...