The Impoverished Rural Community That Changed Its Nation History
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THOSE FARMERS?
This story could only happen many years ago in a faraway land.
I bring it here for you as it...
How social e-commerce can support fairer conditions for small-scale farmers
Small-scale farmers face an uphill battle in a system where products pass through multiple intermediaries before reaching retail stores, eating into profit margins. Meanwhile,...
The State of Smallholder Farmers in Southern Africa
In Southern Africa, the agricultural landscape is dotted with smallholder farmers, individuals tilling less than 10 hectares of land, striving to make a living...
SAB and Moletele community bears fruit in lime farming partnership
SAB’s Corona beer is inherently linked to lime - a wedge of the citrus is traditionally served as part of the drinking ritual. Yet,...
‘BRAINS’: integrating bean, fruit trees and beneficial insects farming and business enterprises in Africa
Five million smallholder farmers; 2.5 million consumers, value chain actors and entrepreneurs in Africa; to benefit from ‘BRAINS’, a new innovative, climate-smart, women and...
IFAD enters the SEK market, issuing 1 billion SEK sustainable bond to investors Skandia and...
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) issued its first SEK club deal today, a strong indication of investors’ continued interest in IFAD. The...
AfDB Group and research centres to transform African agriculture and improve food security
The African Development Bank Group and the Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centres (CGIAR) committed on Thursday to strengthen their collaboration to increase food...
AfDB credit scheme boosts an agro-dealer cocoa farm fertilizer supply tenfold in Côte d’Ivoire
Under a vast blue sky, the Atlantic Ocean waves embrace Côte d’Ivoire’s San Pedro city’s shores alongside a warm breeze from the Gulf of...
New forestry app empowering farmers to become more climate resilient
A new smartphone application is helping smallholder farmers in Eastern Africa become more resilient to the impacts of climate change while improving income and...
Urgent Action Is Needed to Better Reward Tea Farmers for Using Sustainable Practices
There are 13 million people propping up the global tea industry. Two thirds of those people are smallholder farmers in developing countries, many of...