International Trends
Global and African Financial Experts Urge Action to Enhance Smallholder Farmer Financing
Leading global and African financial experts have issued a resounding call to align financial structures with the needs of smallholder...
Smallholder farmers and small agribusiness enterprises across Africa to benefit $500 million AfDB facility
African Development Bank Group (AfDB) plans to launch a $500 million facility designed to unlock $10 billion in financing for...
Agriculture Must Embrace Technology to Thrive
Day 1 of the Africa Agri Tech Conference, held at the CSIR Convention Centre in Pretoria from 18 to 20...
SA confronts multiple water challenges during National Water Week commemorations
National Water Week is a wake-up call to South Africa’s deepening water crisis. Climate change is driving extreme weather, threatening water...
Tipperary dairy farmer raises ‘happiest, healthy calves’
Flourish Calf, the new product from Volac Milk Replacers Ireland Ltd., is producing healthy, happy and thriving calves for a...
World Bank lists five ‘alarming’ statistics on global hunger
The World Bank has said that last year’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report found that...
Somalia: Drought, conflict and high food prices risk pushing 4.4 million people into hunger, The Federal Government of Somalia and UN warn
New data from Somalia shows that 4.4 million people could face hunger by April 2025, driven by worsening drought conditions,...
Public Development Banks have the financial firepower for transforming global food systems, says IFAD President
Representing two-thirds of formal financing to agriculture, Public Development Banks (PDBs) investing in agriculture around the world can play...
FG, Olam Agri discuss agricultural investments to boost agribusiness growth in Nigeria
Olam Agri, a leading agribusiness company, has engaged in discussions with the Federal Government to explore strategic investments aimed at...
Farmers fear being ‘wiped out’ if any more diseases strike
A livestock farmer has lost more than half his newborn lambs in one of the first Scottish cases of a...