(L-R): Ken Aghoghovbia, Deputy Managing Director / COO of Africa Re; Michael Kofi Andoh, Acting Commissioner of Insurance of Ghana; Temitope Akinowa, Regional Director, West Africa-Anglophone of Africa Re; Nathaniel G.Baba, Director of insurance of Liberia In a significant move to address agricultural risk, the African Reinsurance Corporation (Africa Re) recently orchestrated a three-day workshop ...

FILE – A woman waits for food distributed by the United States Agency for International Development in Kenya, July 23, 2022. Climate change and a growing world population may threaten global food security. Changes in agriculture, especially in Africa, may be the only way forward. NAIROBI, KENYA — The combination of climate change and a ...

Bart Pauwels, the agricultural counsellor for Kenya and Tanzania EACH member country in the East African Community and in the wider context has its unique set of rules and regulations, making investment navigation a formidable enterprise, a diplomat has declared. Bart Pauwels, the agricultural counsellor for Kenya and Tanzania in the local mission of the ...

Zoë Karl-Waithaka, Managing Director and Partner, BCG Nairobi According to research released by Oxfam in 2023, seven people across Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan will die of hunger-related causes in the time it takes the average reader to complete this article. It is imperative that all stakeholders in the food and agriculture sectors recognise ...

Farmers check the growth of peanuts at the Choro Farm in Kakuma refugee camp in Turkana, Kenya, June 19, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen) Refugees living in the Kakuma refugee camp in northwest Kenya undertake agriculture, transform the dryland into a fertile zone. KAKUMA, Kenya, June 24 (Xinhua) — Deep in an expansive farm, Abdulaziz Lugazo makes ...

[Source Photo: Getty Images] Amini uses local AI workstations to process data, saving on cloud costs and employing engineers who understand the target market. Farmers need data to monitor and predict everything that goes into affecting their crops from drought and flood conditions to soil health and temperature fluctuations. But for many—particularly those in developing nations—such ...

Makueni has been selected to host a new Kenya School of Agriculture campus, which will offer training in agriculture-related courses, Governor Mutula Kilonzo Jr.has announced. Governor Mutula revealed that his administration has already allocated land for the construction of the school. The governor has also secured a hot water treatment facility from the National Government ...

In a groundbreaking move, Del Monte Kenya Ltd., a prominent fresh fruit producer, has set up a biofertiliser plant to convert pineapple residues into biofertilisers. This initiative not only marks a significant transformation in Kenya’s agricultural landscape but also underscores the company’s commitment to sustainability, innovation, and community development. Let’s delve into the details of ...

Source: XinhuaEditor: huaxia2024-06-18 21:37:38/Local employees display rice seedlings at the Nigerian Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center near Abuja, Nigeria, Sept. 19, 2023. (Xinhua/Dong Jianghui) * In recent years, agricultural cooperation between China and Africa has flourished under the frameworks of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and the Belt and Road Initiative. * From local fields to ...

Agricultural science and technology cooperation between China and Africa is steadily gaining momentum, promising mutual benefits, participants said at a recent event held in Sanya, in South China’s Hainan province. The workshop on China-Africa Agricultural Science and Technology Cooperation, under the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s South-South and Triangular Cooperation Framework, aimed to bolster agricultural ...