6 Top Trends in Agriculture for 2023
By Justin Platt, Founder & CEO, Zylem and RegenZ South Africa is a major agricultural producer and exporter (with a record $12.4-billion in exports in 2021) and creates hundreds of
Food & Bev OP – Are Profit and Sustainability Mutually Exclusive?
Phil Lewis, Senior Vice President of Solution Consulting, International, Infor The world’s population is predicted to grow to more than 9 billion by 2050 and the Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO)
Kenya Joins World Food Programme Executive Board
Kenya’s bid to achieve food security has received a boost after the country was admitted to the executive board of the World Food Programme. Kenya now joins the WFP supreme
Nigeria: Govt to Earn $3bn Annually From Hibiscus Export to Mexico
By James Emejo in Abuja The Comptroller General, Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), Dr. Vincent Isegbe, has said the country is expected to earn about $3 billion annually from hibiscus
Rwanda: Youth Participation – Making Agriculture Pay for Young Farmers
By Susan Asiimwe While much scrutiny has often been placed on Sub-Saharan Africa’s agriculture as an ‘industry for the aged’, more than 60% of young people in our country work
Ghana: Efforts to Sanitise Small Scale Mining Sector
By Claude Nyarko Adams A control centre to monitor and track all earth-moving equipment operating in the small-scale mining sector has been inaugurated in Accra. Also referred to as the
SADC learns from Sahel in Great Green Wall strategy
Africa is drawing from its own lessons as it works toward land degradation neutrality (LDN), with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) adopting its own Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI)
40 new SMMEs progress through Impala Rustenburg’s 12-month Enterprise & Supplier Development programme
Rustenburg, December 2022 – Global Entrepreneurship Week is a worldwide celebration of entrepreneurship that takes place annually in the second week of November, during which the international spotlight falls on
Kenya: Drought Situation Still Critical
Neil Palmer/CIAT/A livestock carcass (file photo). PRESS RELEASE The drought situation remained critical in 20 of the 23 ASAL counties during the month of November 2022. Rains have been reported
Wits Mining accredited for another five-year regular cycle
The high academic standard at Wits University’s School of Mining Engineering has once again been confirmed by its recent accreditation by the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). The ECSA