Through a Community Markets of Conversation (COMACO) model for rural development, 179,000 farmers across eastern Zambia – 52% of whom are women – have benefited from access to affordable farming ...
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A new five-year £30 million UK Department for International Development (DFID) funded programme is aiming to improve the livelihoods of 565,000 smallholder farmers and their families in Uganda, ...
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This is according to AFGRI’s recently-renamed Lemang Agricultural Services, created specifically to train, develop and mentor new era farmers, and focused on the further development of commercial ...
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On International Women’s Day, the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will kick off a campaign aimed at closing the gender gap in agriculture by drawing attention ...
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East African Seed and Seed Co top Access to Seeds Index for Eastern and Southern Africa Seed industry efforts to reach smallholders play key part in addressing food security issues Maize ...
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Some of the farmers and millers at the Cargill seminar Cargill’s recent educational seminars held in Nairobi at the end of February were well attended by those involved in poultry and dairy ...
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Jacques Taylor - John Deere MD Africa John Deere has welcomed the R3.7billion allocation announced in the 2019 Budget Speech to assist emerging black farmers in acquiring land and title deeds, which ...
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Ghana’s vegetable exports continue after improvements to its SPS capabilities By Dr Dennis Rangi – Director General – Development, CABI Like many of my fellow Africans, I proceed into 2019 with ...
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AFGRI Technology Services (“ATS”), which focuses on the development and implementation of agricultural technology (“AgTech”) solutions, will be partnering with the University of Pretoria’s (“UP”) ...
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The Sum-Africa project, which is providing smallholder farmers in Uganda with satellite-based drought index insurance, has set higher targets for 2019. The project, which is supported by ...
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