Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a potentially powerful tool for transforming agriculture across Africa, helping farmers respond to climate change, improve productivity, reduce costs and make better decisions. For a continent where nearly 60% of the workforce in sub-Saharan Africa depends on agriculture, the stakes are significant. Yet millions of farmers continue to operate ...

Zambia and the United States have expanded a US$491 million agricultural grant programme to include infrastructure that will strengthen the strategically important Lobito Corridor, supporting both agricultural development and the country’s growing critical minerals sector. The revised programme, implemented through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), broadens the scope of the original “farm-to-market” initiative signed in ...

Brandon Moss,  Africa’s agricultural sector stands at a defining moment. With a projected gross production value of $189.07 billion in 2025, the continent’s farming economy is both vast and vital. Yet beneath this promise lies a complex web of structural, environmental, and financial challenges that threaten to stall progress. If agriculture is to fulfill its ...

April 10th, 2024/By Ben Payton/ Image : Yasuyoshi CHIBA/AFP There is little doubt that Africa has the potential to become a global agricultural powerhouse. With excellent growing conditions across large parts of the continent, a huge agricultural workforce and a relative abundance of land that could be converted for arable farming, Africa appears to possess ...