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 ...