Practical Action partners with Mastercard, initiates a project to benefit 100,000 young women and...
Practical Action, UK registered development charity and the Mastercard Foundation have partnered to establish the Resilient Agriculture that Works for Young People (RAY) project...
Animal welfare activists increase calls to ban cage system poultry farming in East Africa
Animal welfare activists in East Africa region continue to call on governments to ban on cage system in poultry farming terming the system as...
African leader Gerardine Mukeshimana joins UN rural development agency IFAD as Vice-President
Amid growing global food insecurity and an intensifying climate crisis, Gerardine Mukeshimana takes up duties today as Vice-President of the UN’s International Fund for...
UN signs financial agreement for a seven-year $25.6M project to improve food security in...
The United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of South Sudan have signed a financial agreement...
Pros and Cons of Having Chickens in Your Garden
Have you ever considered raising chickens in your garden? What aspect appeals to you the most – the prospect of fresh eggs, natural pest...
Kenya pumpkin farmers venture into oil, flour making to beat market challenges
Local pumpkin farmers are now taking the venture a notch higher by adding value to the fruit to make high value products such as...
ABC Fund has financed 28 organisations supporting nearly 600,000 smallholder farmers since 2019
The Agri-Business Capital Fund (‘ABC Fund’) has published its third annual Impact Report. It reports that since its launch in 2019, the ABC Fund...
Leading Agritech Firm FarmERP Appoints Industry Veterans Mahesh Jadhav and Vivek Pawar to Advisory...
FarmERP, the pioneering Agritech firm and one of the earliest enterprises in the world to bring technology to agriculture, has announced the appointment of...
Energy-saving product assists poultry farmers with impact of loadshedding
Loadshedding affects all South Africans on a daily basis, and all industries are affected in some way. However, its repercussions go much deeper than...
Netafim brings precision irrigation technology to Rwanda’s farm hub to boost food security
Located in a poorly irrigated, semi-arid Nyagatara region in the eastern part of Rwanda which receives 800mm annual rainfall, Gabiro Agribusiness Hub was designed...