Agriculture in Africa: Potential versus reality
With more than 60% of its 1.166 billion people living in rural areas, Africa’s economy is inherently dependent on agriculture. ...
Tag: Agric in Africa
Subsidies for Planting for Food & Jobs must increase – Ghanaian peasant farmers beg Gov’t
The Programmes Officer of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), Mr Bismark Owusu Nortey, is asking government to increase ...
Ghanaian firm wins World Bank, Draper U Agriculture Risk Innovation Challenge
A Ghanaian firm, Alert Service-Satelligence, has been adjudged, among two other companies, winners of the Agriculture Risk Innovation Challenge (AG ...
Covid-19: Difficult times ahead for Farmers in Africa-says Selina Wamucii
Millions of family Farmers in Africa are facing economic devastation as COVID-19 pandemic disrupts exports and global food supply chains. ...
Agriculture sector must be lucrative to the youth
The Managing Director of The Urban Jungle, Mr Selorm Agudu, has called for a concerted effort to develop and grow ...
4 ways Africa’s small farmers can double their yield
In sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of farmers are smallholder farmers, living in poverty and working on less than two hectares ...
How digital technologies can help Africa’s smallholder farmers
Digitisation could change the game for agriculture in Africa. That's a key message in a report recently released by an international ...
Here is how Millennial entrants are transforming African farming
Farming has an image problem in large parts of Africa. For many people, it’s synonymous with poverty. So it’s hardly ...
Smarter farming could cut hunger in Africa
Southern African farmers facing hunger as a result of worsening drought know a lot about climate change, but lack the ...
Can agriculture in Africa sustain a nourishing rural non-farm economy?
After being out of fashion for a long period, agriculture has been coming back into the spotlight again as part ...