Most African agricultural exports, however, go to non-African markets, requiring infrastructure and logistics investments to ...

Farming has long been seen as low-status work across much of Africa, pushing young people to cities in search of office jobs ...

By Aimable Twahirwa The agriculture sector’s adaptation to climate change in Africa remains severely underfunded, say ...

Last week the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) turned global. Some 10,000 people from around the world, three times the normal attendance, watched and participated. There were several hundred ...

Alan Kessler is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of African Agriculture, a United States-based Africa-focused company. Beginning with an initial farm development in Senegal, African ...

A $1 billion philanthropic effort promising a “green revolution” for African agriculture has fallen far short of its goals, according to critics who say the project has yielded more harm than good for ...

The President of the Republic of The Gambia, President Adama Barrow has unveiled a plaque renaming the University of Gambia's School of Agriculture and Environmental Services as Dr. Akinwumi A.

The year 2025 was a generally good year for South Africa’s agriculture and the broader farming sector. We emerged from a drought and heatwave in 2024 and saw excellent harvests of crops, fruits, an ...

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 ...

The dreaded crop-eating fall armyworm continues to spread across Africa like wildfire. This invasive insect pest, first reported in Africa in early 2016, is in more than 20 African countries including ...

In Africa, where the vast majority of farmers are smallholders (on average cultivating about 5 acres according to a 2018 estimate by the OECD), it makes sense for such farmers to combine their forces ...