Key points: With a shared faith in God and a love for Africa, Larry and Jane Kies dedicated over 30 years to agriculture and education in The United Methodist Church in Zimbabwe. Larry Kies achieved productivity at the church’s Nyadire Farm, which provided affordable agricultural produce to the mission and local community. The Kieses’ service ...

By Lloyd Mbulwe (Ph.D), Acting Chief Agriculture Research Officer (CARO)-Crop Improvement and Agronomy (CIA). Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI), Ministry of Agriculture Zambia has tremendous agricultural potential, with over half of its land being classified as prime for agriculture production. Our primary staple crops – maize, sorghum, millet, cassava and groundnuts – are mainly cultivated by smallholder farmers, who form the backbone ...

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 ...

Sr. Juunza Mwangani, center, project manager for the Religious Sisters of the Holy Spirit, inspects some of the local women beneficiaries’ agricultural projects in Magoye’s Mbiya village, in Zambia’s Mazabuka District. (Derrick Silimina). In the parched terrain of Magoye in Zambia’s Mazabuka District, about 150 km south of the capital Lusaka, Dixon Lungu braves the ...

Fish farming is key to food security in Africa; study shows that optimized agricultural resource management helps fish farmers in Zambia Although aquaculture, fish farming, is believed to have been practiced for thousands of years in Asia, the approach is relatively new in Africa, which is facing a “fish deficit” that contributes to a lack ...

The African Development Bank’s financial support for Zambia aims to increase private sector participation in the economy, with a particular emphasis on agro-industrial development and climate-smart investments. The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group approved a loan of $108 million to Zambia for an initiative aimed at strengthening the country’s economic governance ...

© EUROPEAN UNION 2024 The Ministry of Water Development and Sanitation (MWDS), with support from the European Union’s Green Nexus Programme, has today launched the country’s first ever National Rainwater Harvesting Strategy, a significant step towards a more water secure Zambia. The Green Nexus Programme is part of the EU’s Global Gateway Strategy which aims ...

ZARI has become a leader in climate-smart agriculture through modernized facilities and strengthened partnerships The Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI) has undergone a significant transformation, fueled by a strategic subgrant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through the Africa Dryland Crop Improvement Network (ADCIN). This support has led to the modernization of ZARI’s research facilities, improved irrigation systems, ...

By Musonda Mwewa The Angolan Government has called for increased partnership with the Zambian government in developing the agriculture and mining sector. Angolan Ambassador Extraordinary to Zambia ALBINO MALUNGA says the his government has a lot to learn from the Zambia’s agriculture and mining sectors. In an interview with ZNBC News at the commemoration of ...

Climbing beans in southwestern Uganda. Credit: CIAT/NeilPalmer. The post-Malabo process to determine the next decade of agricultural policy has so far been characterised by outside influence and exclusivity. Late last month, officials from across the continent gathered in Zambia to discuss the next decade of Africa’s agricultural policy. Yet what was marketed as an “inclusive ...