Women make up 43 percent of the global agricultural workforce. The rate is even higher here in Africa, where women are ...

By Aimable Twahirwa The agriculture sector’s adaptation to climate change in Africa remains severely underfunded, say ...

Most African agricultural exports, however, go to non-African markets, requiring infrastructure and logistics investments to ...

Saai and Agri All Africa Chairman Theo de Jager says the current foot-and-mouth outbreak is the worst livestock farming ...

Farming has long been seen as low-status work across much of Africa, pushing young people to cities in search of office jobs ...

South Africa needs to track whether beneficiaries of land reform policies are participating in the country’s thriving ...

There are a few critical policy areas that could have significant positive spinoffs to South Africa’s agricultural growth if implemented effectively. The prioritisation of implementation itself wou ...

Last week the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) turned global. Some 10,000 people from around the world, three times the normal attendance, watched and participated. There were several hundred ...

Alan Kessler is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of African Agriculture, a United States-based Africa-focused company. Beginning with an initial farm development in Senegal, African ...

The dreaded crop-eating fall armyworm continues to spread across Africa like wildfire. This invasive insect pest, first reported in Africa in early 2016, is in more than 20 African countries including ...

Three African youth-led Agritech businesses— Kenya’s DigiCow, Botswana’s Brastorne Enterprises and Nigeria’s ThriveAgric— will receive mentorship and $1.5 million in grants to help them to ...

A $1 billion philanthropic effort promising a “green revolution” for African agriculture has fallen far short of its goals, according to critics who say the project has yielded more harm than good for ...