NOAA Fisheries has confirmed that South Africa is among ten African nations granted full approval to export fish and fish products from all marine fisheries to the United States starting January 2026. The announcement follows NOAA’s enforcement of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), which sets stringent standards for foreign fisheries seeking access to the ...

Senegal has entered into a landmark agreement with Türkiye’s Albayrak Group to establish a tractor assembly plant in Dakar, a move poised to revolutionize agricultural mechanization across West Africa. The deal was finalized during Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko’s official visit to Türkiye and aligns with Senegal’s “2050 Vision” to reduce food imports and enhance local ...

By Dowell, Agrifocus Africa July 21, 2025 Thirteen West African countries are advancing a bold regional initiative to fortify rice production against the growing threats of climate change. Backed by a $9.44 million grant from the African Development Fund, the REWARD–Adaptation project is set to transform rice value chains with climate-smart technologies, capacity building, and ...

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 ...

Nigeria and Sierra Leone are exploring strategies in the Agricultural sector to boost food security in their countries and across the continent. At a Conference held at the headquarters of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, ibadan, the two countries highlighted roadmaps for integrating research-driven innovations and inclusive agribusiness models to boost food security and ...

Women farming cassava in Sierra Leone. Photo by Annie Spratt 85% of agricultural output across Africa is produced by small-holders. What do they need to simultaneously maintain ecological balance and sustain a continent?The need to rethink innovation in relation to agriculture is imperative. Approximately 85% of total agricultural output across the African continent is produced by small-holder farmers, yet there remains a persistent ...

New African Society (NAS), a youth-led Sierra Leone-based organization, is working for the development of self-sufficient communities to alleviate generations of poverty within the country. The organization offers services that promote the advancement of agricultural projects within the region, seeking to remedy a lack of opportunity for socioeconomic mobility and food insecurity. “We have identified the ...

Fr. Peter Konteh. Credit: Caritas Africa The Executive Director of Caritas Freetown in Sierra Leone is rallying for the strengthening of the country’s agricultural sector to attract young people who he says have resorted to begging on the streets of the West African country. In a reflection shared with ACI Africa, Fr. Peter Konteh said ...

In a series of ceremonies between the 8-14 November 2022, Sierra Leone’s former Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, initiated the construction of agric-education centres in different parts of the country. Ambassador Omrie Golley is the CEO of the Golley Agriculture Development Company which aims at introducing a new agricultural system based on drip irrigation ...