Faced with the effects of climate change, which pose risks of food insecurity, particularly in Africa, a new initiative jointly supported by the International Solar Alliance (ISA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) should promote solar irrigation in nine countries on the continent by 2025. Large-scale solar applications for agriculture (LSSAA). This is the ...

“We have to make farming sexy again,” says Ndeye Yacine Barry, policy innovation researcher at development agency Akademiya2063. “We need to make it a business and not a poor sector where farmers cannot even afford to feed themselves.” This sums up the paradoxes facing Senegalese agriculture. Over half of the population work in farming, yet ...

A key fisheries and aquaculture development programme implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has highlighted significant potential to boost these sectors in Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Tanzania, Guyana and the Marshall Islands, making them more self-sufficient, creating jobs and preserving biological stock levels. The countries are the first five of 12 ...

Tunis/Tunisia — Tunisia and Senegal will update their cooperation agreement on the agricultural sector, Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries Mahmoud Elyes Hamza and Senegal’s Minister of Agriculture, Rural Equipment and Food Sovereignty Aly Ngouille Ndiaye agreed in Dakar. The agreement will be inked during the upcoming meeting of the Tunisia-Senegal Joint Commission in ...

Boosting food production at scale in Africa is achievable: thanks to heat-tolerant wheat varieties, Ethiopia’s wheat production increased from 50,000 hectares in 2018 to 400,000 hectares in 2022, turning the country into a net exporter of wheat. (Picture: TAAT project in Ethiopia). African heads of state and government together with development partners will gather in ...