Zambia pays farmers for food purchases amid cries for delayed inputs
Zambia has paid the last installment of K139,982,970 (US$9 million) of all the commitments owed to the smallholder farmers that supplied maize and other...
How Young People are Creating Businesses Selling Coffee
As part of Nestlé Needs YOUth Initiative, MYOWBU is benefitting over 5, 000 young people and seeks to double its youth outreach with entrepreneurship...
Zambia embraces Private Sector over 8th NDP
Zambia wants to co-exist with the private sector in actualizing the 8th National Development Plan-blueprint-to tap economic growth potential embedded in key growth sectors,...
InfraCo Africa invests to scale access to clean transport in rural Zimbabwe
InfraCo Africa, part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), has signed an agreement committing US$2 million to scale the offering of Mobility for...
AfDB Fund Approves $13.95 Million Grant for Borana Resilient Water Development for Improved Livelihoods...
The Borana Resilient Water Development for Improved Livelihoods Program will enhance access to climate-resilient, gender-sensitive integrated and sustainable water and sanitation services
The Board of...
Ireland provides €30m in response to East Africa’s food crisis
Ireland will immediately provide €30 million in humanitarian aid in response to the rapidly deteriorating food crisis in the Horn of Africa, the country’s...
Zambia envisions enhanced livestock investment
The recurring livestock deficit in Zambia has prompted authorities to call sustained investment in the sector to meet local and foreign demand.
Research data available...
UNDP launches programme to promote agripreneurship in nigeria
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has unveiled an agro-challenge programme aimed at crowd-sourcing innovative solutions to the challenges faced across the agricultural value...
‘Africa seeks US$170 bln for Resilient infrastructure’
AFRICA needs to mobilise a staggering US$170 billion annually in long term financing to develop infrastructure key sectors, agriculture included to accelerate growth dwarfed...
Kenya, South Korea settle on free trade agreement
The government of Kenya and South Korea have made a deal on free trade agreement between the two. The deal was made during bilateral...