Doris Njagi is dedicated to restoring the forest of her childhood, and her innovative approach has expanded throughout East Africa. Growing up on the slopes of Mount Kenya, she witnessed the gradual ...

From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking to the past and future to respond to ...

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Two flood-resistant rice varieties are helping farmers in Africa to improve productivity, with huge potential returns for countries affected by climate change, agricultural food experts say.

The International Potato Center (CIP) is partnering with the Crop Trust to launch a new phase of the BOLD project. It aims to turn useful traits from potato wild relatives into a resilient new variety ...

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 ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — When Senegalese farmer Pape Fall first downloaded TikTok, it was to watch football and funny videos. In the last two years, however, he's experimented with it to promote his ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — When Benson Wanjala started farming in his western Kenya village two and a half decades ago, his 10-acre farm could produce a bountiful harvest of 200 bags of maize. That has dwindled ...

One of the most important food security crops in Africa is cassava, a root vegetable eaten by around half a billion people every day. Africa produces nearly 200 million tonnes of cassava every year, ...

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