A new study has found that deforestation for subsistence agriculture often occurs nearby commercial logging, mining and agriculture operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Shifting cultivation ...
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Africa’s smallholder farmers are the linchpin to economic success
Food is the most basic of needs. It decides not just the health of individuals but also the health of communities which affects the health of our economies. Underpinning the food we eat, is ...
South Africa’s Mzansi Meat Co. is on a mission to improve food security, all while bringing subsistence farmers’ into the formal economy, through its production of cultivated local delicacies. When ...
As the recent Africa Business Forum concluded in Addis Ababa, if Africa is to create the tens of millions of quality jobs its young people need over the coming decade, it must pivot decisively from ...
Farmers across Africa are faced with eroded, phosphorus-limited soils, leading to low crop yields, despite having some of the world’s richest phosphate deposits in Morocco. Soil scientists at Mohammed ...
We find out how IFAD is transforming farm losses into bankable opportunities for rural youth and local markets and ECOWAS ...
History is often taught as if agricultural advancement followed a single European arc—from medieval open fields to mechanized farming to industrial agribusiness—while Africa appears locked in ...
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