All articles in 'Agrifocus'
Africa’s 33 million smallholder farmers are responsible for up to 90 per cent of the continent’s agr...
15th October 2013By 2050, the Earth will need to feed 9 billion people with the same amount of land, water and natura...
20th January 2014I used to be skeptical of GM crops. Then I saw what they can do. Now I’m a true believer...
26th February 2014Out of the known 30,000 edible plant species, just 30, including maize, rice and wheat make up 95 pe...
3rd March 2014Extreme Weather Pummels Africa’s Food Security Initiatives Raging heavy rains are causing havoc acr...
27th May 2013Africa’s citizenry must on the other hand be proactive and make productive use of arable land that i...
3rd September 2013An estimated 100 million African women spend over 20 billion hours of hard, manual labour to chop we...
31st December 2013Africa’s 33 million smallholder farmers are responsible for up to 90 per cent of the continent’s agr...
29th October 2013Broad production base and markets to scale up value addition Pests and use of prohibited farm input...
5th August 2013If destinations for Uganda’s agro products like coffee, tea, cotton, flowers and tobacco outlawed GM...
9th May 2013The agriculture sector remains among the lowest ranked sectors in the national budget.
7th June 2013Africa’s 33 million smallholder farmers are responsible for up to 90 per cent of the continent’s a...
4th November 2013Africa’s 33 million smallholder farmers are responsible for up to 90 per cent of the continent’s agr...
30th September 2013Agribusiness is one of the keys to efficiency and innovation in Africa’s agricultural sector...........
3rd May 2013Researchers have raised the alarm over the increasing spread of banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) acros...
6th August 2013Pumping food aid into poor countries’ markets distorts and compromises the target country’s markets....
9th July 2013Last year, we faced a serious challenge posed by floods. Many panicked. The press was...
15th November 2013Africa’s 33 million smallholder farmers are responsible for up to 90 per cent of the continent’s agr...
12th November 2013Africa’s 33 million smallholder farmers are responsible for up to 90 per cent of the continent’s agr...
20th October 2013An estimated 100 million African women spend over 20 billion hours of hard, manual labour to chop we...
15th December 2013Agriculture, the sector which seems to hold one of the key solutions for the continent’s transformat...
28th January 2014African farmers should study the predicament of their Asian counterparts The demand for food by Afr...
6th September 2013An estimated 100 million African women spend over 20 billion hours of hard, manual labour to chop we...
3rd December 2013We have the people, we have the land, we have the water, and we have the climate.
1st October 2013Out of the known 30,000 edible plant species, just 30, including maize, rice and wheat make up 95 pe...
9th March 2014Out of the known 30,000 edible plant species, just 30, including maize, rice and wheat make up 95 pe...
18th March 2014while obesity is a key problem in parts of the world, including the Gulf, fully forty percent of chi...
18th February 2014Strategic investment in non-oil sectors such as agriculture – which remains a dominant sector, is pa...
28th June 2013African farmers should study the predicament of their Asian counterparts The demand for food by Afr...
26th August 2013An estimated 100 million African women spend over 20 billion hours of hard, manual labour to chop we...
20th December 2013