By Layih Butake If human capital is critical to economic transformation, Africa sits atop an enviable reservoir. With approximately 60 percent of its population younger than 25 years, Africa is the youngest continent. By 2030, the continent’s youth are expected to make up 42 percent of the world’s young population, with 75 percent under age 35. ...

EIMA Agrimach India, an agriculture exhibition at the University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK which began on Thursday brought together a wide range of farm machinery and equipment from various agri-companies and startups. DH PHOTO BY B K JANARDHAN …’ Bengaluru: The EIMA Agrimach India, an agriculture exhibition at the University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, which ...

Founding Director of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement at the University of Ghana, Prof. Eric Danquah, has been appointed a member of the advisory group of the UK-CGIAR Centre, which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak launched on Monday. The four-member Science and Impact Advisory Group is expected to offer advice on the Centre’s strategic ...

ESAFF Uganda, through the ESAFF Women Forum together with partners, organised the 5th Women in Agriculture (WiA) Conference, an annual event that empowers small-scale women in agriculture. This year, with support from Oxfam in Uganda, Humundi and GIZ, the 5th National Women in Agriculture (WiA) Conference was conducted under the theme “Equal access and control ...

In the highly dynamic world of coffee, the emergence of Big Data is revolutionizing the sector. The Kingdom of Buganda is a traditional Kingdom in Uganda that has recently ventured into coffee processing and trading. On 6th April 2023, honourable Hajj Ishak Kasule Lukenge, in the capacity of the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development ...

Uganda’s state minister for agriculture, Bright Rwamirama, has appealed to African scientists and researchers to apply science to agriculture to enable the continent to become the World food basket. “The food system in Africa is not working to full capacity, and yet we have the capacity to feed the whole world.” Rwamirama spoke at the ...

CMC Motors Group Limited (CMC) remobilizes to focus on agriculture mechanization solutions in strategic change of direction in Kenya. New Holland Agriculture’s local distributor in Kenya, the CMC Motors Group Limited (CMC) has announced a major shift in its business strategies which is to move away from the mass-market passenger vehicle segment in Kenya. For ...

Africa’s fish industry faces a significant supply-demand discrepancy, with aquaculture poised to fill the gap as demand continues to grow across the continent. “The East African fish supply deficit is one of the greatest supply-demand imbalances in the global food system today,” said Kenya-based aquaculture company Victory Farms in a recent statement to announce a ...

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 ...

Catherine Nakalembe, the Africa program director for NASA Harvest, leads efforts to map crop conditions and build early warning systems for weather events by developing tools like maps, dashboards, apps and radio to make satellite insights accessible and useful for local farmers and policy-makers across Eastern and Southern Africa. The programme is executed with local ...