Half a million of Ethiopia’s most vulnerable families are set to benefit from a new US$451 million project to increase their resilience to climate shocks in the country’s poorest regions.   For more than two decades, climate change has placed a major stress on the Ethiopian economy and on ...

Agriculture micronutrients have become important in agriculture production. They also play an important role in balancing the crop nutrition. Soil testing carried out in various countries have also found a deficiency of micronutrients in many soils. Factors such as high-yield crop demand, ...

The choice of pest control products with different modes of action allows farmers worldwide to apply effective resistance management strategies. Bayer and AlphaBio Control have signed a distribution agreement to market Flipper™, an innovative biological pest control product developed by AlphaBio. ...

Comment by Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural economist at FNB Agri-Business After a slow start to the 2018/19 summer crop season with severe dryness during December 2018 in the growing areas particularly in parts of the North West and the Free State, conditions rebounded early in January 2019 as ...

The European Commission Directorate for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO), has committed to strengthen the efforts of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), in the management of the fall armyworm in Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. DEVCO ...

Comment by Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural economist at FNB Agri-Business South Africa : Following a stellar performance in 2017, South Africa’s agriculture output shrank by massive 29.2% in the 2nd quarter of 2018 and contributed -0.8 of a percentage point to GDP growth. This follows a ...

CABI is leading a consortium, funded by the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme (IPP), developing a Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE), which uses state-of-the-art technology to help inform farmers in sub-Saharan Africa of pest outbreaks that could devastate their crops and ...

Farmers inspect a farm where floods destroyed crops in western Rwanda. FILE PHOTO | CYRIL By Nita Karume:  Eastern Africa will continue to grapple with food shortages because of the floods. Over the past weekend, a series of small Kenyan dams collapsed, killing five people. These become the ...

By Fayelle Ouane, co-founder of Suguba, an Innovation Hub operating in several West African countries. Suguba’s vision is to foster a more integrated and empowered West Africa by giving a voice to the youth and escalating innovation in the region. As we celebrate Africa Day and commemorate our ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is offering a $150,000 reward for ways to combat the armyworm menace.  The agency warned last week the pests threaten the livelihood of millions of African farmers. The fall armyworm is responsible for targeting maize, which unfortunately is ...