Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – October 3, 2025 – Smallholder farmers across Africa are increasingly adopting regenerative agriculture practices to boost productivity while protecting the environment. This was the key outcome of the Second Roundtable of African Farmers, which brought together farmers from Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Mali, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia. ...

The new strategy aims to address these vulnerabilities by unlocking private sector growth, creating sustainable employment, and building stronger institutions. MASERU, Lesotho, September 24, 2025/ — The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved a new $209 million Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for Lesotho, setting out a roadmap to accelerate ...

By Brandon Moss  Lesotho has officially enforced a nationwide ban on the importation of eggs, cabbage, and potatoes, a move aimed at strengthening domestic agriculture and reducing reliance on foreign produce. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition announced that the restrictions, which began earlier this year, are now fully operational. The decision follows ...

Agriculture ministers and top-level policymakers from 14 African countries will meet with their counterparts from three Asian countries in Hanoi on 15 July 2025 to discuss making agrifood production more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable to reduce high levels of hunger, malnutrition and poverty in both regions. The High-Level Inter-regional Knowledge Exchange on One Country ...

South Africa and Lesotho have strengthened their trade partnership, aiming to boost investment amid global trade shifts that could affect their economies. Officials from South Africa’s Department of Trade, Industry and Competition and Lesotho’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Business Development recently met in Pretoria to explore ways to enhance collaboration in agriculture, clothing, and ...

The Kingdom of Lesotho, with support from the African Development Bank, is leveraging its abundant water and renewable energy resources to chart an ambitious path that will accelerate its economic transformation and have a huge impact on South Africa and Botswana. His Majesty King Letsie III and the President of the African Development Bank, Dr ...

Climate change is an ongoing and increasing threat to African agriculture. Prolonged droughts, pest outbreaks, and poor soil quality are all exacerbated by erratic weather patterns. Genetically-engineered crops are one plank of the adaptative solution, but farmers need more tools in their toolbox. That’s where mutation breeding and other nuclear agriculture technologies come into play. ...

DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT Lesotho is experiencing a severe drought and food insecurity due to consecutive La Niña and El Niño events from 2021 to 2023. The 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 rainfall seasons, marked by mild to moderate La Niña events, led to excessive rainfall and below-average crop production. The 2023/2024 El Niño further exacerbated the ...

The workshop is part of Afreximbank’s continued push for the development and implementation of high-quality projects across Africa MASERU, Lesotho, July, 2024/ — African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) and the Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) co-hosted a Joint Project Preparation Facility (JPPF) workshop in Maseru, Lesotho, to help address investment gaps in project preparation and ...

In 2018, the Constitutional Court of South Africa decriminalised the private use and cultivation of cannabis for personal consumption in the renowned judgement of Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and Others v Prince; National Director of Public Prosecutions and Others v Rubin; National Director of Public Prosecutions and Others v Acton and Others [2018] ZACC ...