The Cocoa and Coffee Farmers Alliance Association of Africa (COCEFAAA) has warned that up to 40 per cent of African smallholder cocoa farmers could be excluded from the European market because they ...

Thousands of years ago, farmers in West Africa took a wild ancestor of rice and turned it into a crop of their own. But it was difficult to harvest and, over time, globally dominant Asian rice pushed ...

Across Africa, wheat, maize and rice are the most consumed cereal crops. When they fail because of drought, floods or other ...

From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking to the past and future to respond to ...

Two flood-resistant rice varieties are helping farmers in Africa to improve productivity, with huge potential returns for countries affected by climate change, agricultural food experts say.

With half the African population facing hunger, a program to scale up poultry farming may offer a solution.

Three African youth-led Agritech businesses— Kenya’s DigiCow, Botswana’s Brastorne Enterprises and Nigeria’s ThriveAgric— will receive mentorship and $1.5 million in grants to help them to ...

"It's a huge opportunity if you make [the workforce] agri-food system skilled." ...

Pig farmers in the Ikangba/Agoro axis of Odogbolu Local Government Area, Ogun State, have lamented losses estimated at over N5bn after outbreaks of African Swine Fever, calling on the federal and ...

"Farmers have been supporting us for eight years – now we want to support them," says Pierneef Smit, managing director of ...