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Africa’s Food Systems Forum (AGRF), Heifer International, and Generation Africa (https://GenAfrica.org/) announced the launch of Pitch AgriHack 2023,

Agricultural technology can play a huge role in intensifying production as well as realising the vision of a food and nutrition-secure Africa.

With soaring food prices, climate change, and rapid population growth undermining food security in Africa, the continent is in dire need of an agricultural revolution. Fortunately, steps taken by three forward-looking countries show that success is not only possible but well within reach. The Covid-19 pandemic, compounded by supply-chain disruptions and surging inflation, has highlighted

BY SAMUEL NABWIISO For the East African Community to be food secure there’s need to shift from farming practices that do not favour Small holder farmers that are being greatly supported by the Seven Member states. Small Scale farmers under their Umbrella of Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers Forum say that most of […]

Humanity can still stop the worst consequences of climate change, says scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.

Legacy of colonialism, poverty, inadequate infrastructure, political instability and climate change are largely to blame for food crises in Africa.

President Buhari advised other African leaders despite the failure of his government to improve funding for the Nigerian agricultural sector in line with the Maputo agreement.

The data is shocking: three-quarters of African Governments have already reduced their agricultural budgets while paying almost double that on arms.Africa is home to a quarter of the world’s ent

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Growing negative narratives about cattle’s contribution to climate change are shrinking the growth of the strategic livestock sector on which the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people in the world depend.