In a hot and sunny November afternoon in temperatures reaching 30C, Siphiwe Sithole is busy sorting a customer’s order of bambara beans on her farm in Laezonia, South Africa. Sithole’s farm is about 15 kilometres from the administrative capital Pretoria. It specialises in “indigenous” South African crops – a catch-all term referring both to native ...

Project amount: $2 million Approval date: September 2023 Status: On-going Project Description This project consists of a $2 million partial trade credit guarantee and a $877,980 grant from the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism to the African Fertilizer Agribusiness Partnership for the Fertilizer Financing for Sustainable Agriculture Management project in Mozambique. The project aims to increase ...

The list of China’s food imports from Africa now includes avocados, soybeans, pineapples, chillies, cashew nuts, sesame seeds and spices. Photo: Xinhua Avocados and honey imports a sign of China’s growing agricultural engagement with Africa Agricultural cooperation to be high on the agenda when Beijing hosts the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit next week. South ...

Counterpart International: Tackling Mozambique’s food insecurity through the our bright future program Mozambique, located in southeastern Africa and home to about 34 million people, faces food insecurity despite considerable progress in recent years. In 2015, the region successfully halved the number of hungry people, meeting a key Millennium Development Goal. Still, Mozambique continues to struggle ...

Delegation from CIMMYT and the Embassy of Ireland led by Moses Siambi, Africa’s regional director, and Adrian Fitzgerald, chief of cooperation at the Embassy of Ireland, during discussions at the launch of the Transformative Dryland Crops Project in Mozambique. (Photo: Mozambique) With 96% of its population engaged in farming and crop production, residents of the ...

Farmers check the growth of maize in drought-hit fields in Macheke, Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe in this March 10, 2019 photo. A severe drought has currently decimated crops leaving many people at risk of hunger. Photo / Shaun Jusa / Alamy This article was originally published on Dialogue Earth under the Creative Commons BY NC ND license. The first ...

What: Launch of Fertilizer Financing for Sustainable Agriculture Management Project in Mozambique Who: The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism When: Friday, 14 June 2024; 08:00 -12:30 (GMT+2) Where: Radisson Blu Hotel, Maputo, Mozambique The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (the Mechanism) will launch the Fertilizer Financing for Sustainable Agriculture Management Project on 14 June 2024, aiming to ...

The Pamoja Founders Project Cohort 1 with representatives from IREX, PepsiCo and PepsiCo Foundation with the Nairobi Governor, H.E. Hon. Governor Sakaja Johnson (centre) The Pamoja Founders Project, a collaborative regional leadership development program by IREX, the PepsiCo Foundation, and PepsiCo has granted $15,000 each to six leading African enterprises as catalytic support. The announcement ...

In the heart of Maxixe in the Inhambane province of Mozambique, lies a thriving coconut oil processing plant known as Oleos do Sul. Established in 2018, Oleos do Sul, meaning “Southern Oil” in Portuguese, was purchased by Southern Oil with a vision to enter the coconut crushing industry. The factory was formerly known as Vida ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Subregional Coordinator for Southern Africa, Patrice Talla paid a courtesy visit to His Excellency, Umberto Malnati, the Italian Ambassador to Zimbabwe at his offices in Harare. The courtesy visit is part of existing and ongoing collaborative programmes between Italy and FAO to promote agriculture investment ...