Actors in the global fertilizer industry are accelerating action on partnerships, investments and innovation towards improving fertilizer access and trade in Africa to boost food security currently threatened by climate change.
Speaking at the CRU Africa Fertilizer Agribusiness conference, Minister Tizeba invited the private sector to explore the available opportunities in …
African countries that took early action to invest in agriculture have reaped the rewards enjoying higher economic growth and a bigger drop in malnutrition with productivity on existing farmlands increasing by 5.9% to 6.7% a year. See …
According to SEND-Ghana, and NGO, its research on investment in smallholder agriculture revealed the need for AU to revise the minimum threshold to push for additional direct investments to support the sector. See …
“We sit with an ironic situation where Africa is the continent with 46% of the world’s underutilised land, the bulk of the ground water resources and the best climate for agriculture production in the world – yet our farmers are the poorest and the smallest,” said Dr. Theo De Jager, …
AfDB president Adesina wants to use the bank to de-risk investments in electricity and agriculture and so help transform the continent’s economies. Read …
Three-quarters of the world’s poorest people depend almost entirely on agriculture for subsistence and income. One in nine people in the world today are undernourished, according to the United Nations, and World Bank data shows humanity needs to produce at least 50 percent more food by 2050 to feed an …
Agriculture in Africa has not only suffered from underinvestment and limited research but also from a lack of technology and services for farmers, according to experts.
Zambia National Farmers’ Union (ZNFU) President Evelyn Nguleka told Anadolu Agency unless agricultural practices change “the entire African continent is at risk of falling into …
The Agricultural Research Council (ARC), one of South Africa’s key weapons in the fight against the current drought, has seen its net surplus decline by 300% during 2014/2015. While still in the black the ARC has experienced a 300% decrease in its surplus from R137m to R34m for the …
“You can live without oil, you cannot live without food. So agriculture should be sexy. It should be nice, interesting – not boring,” Mo Ibrahim said in as address to the gathering at the John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation 4 Global Development Lecture Series at the University of Ghana, Legon on …
The potential growth of Africa’s food and beverage markets will only be possible with adequate investment in small and medium-sized agribusiness enterprises. Small African firms engaged in agribusiness greatly outnumber the large players. Policymakers need to support agribusiness and technology incubators, export-processing zones and production networks. They must also sharpen …