Community forestry can work but plans in the DRC show what’s missing The Congo river basin spans six central African countries: Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo. It is known as “Africa’s lung” because it hosts the world’s second-largest tropical forest. It covers an area of […]
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Perspectives on the Latest African Aquaculture Statistics By Aquaculture Innovations Global aquaculture production is soaring with more seafood farmed each year since 2013 than is harvested from the wild (Figure 1). In 2018 the aquaculture industry produced in excess of 114 million tons of aquaculture products globally, valued at more than $263bn! A massive […]
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Milling and Winning with the MM1500 Mill by Maize Master Whether you want to buy a mill to add value to an existing operation or start a completely new business – Maize Master can assist in all your milling needs. The MM1500 mill by Maize Master has an input of 1.5-tonne maize and produces grits. Yellow and […]
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Tanzania to Introduce New Grape Varieties to Boost Wine Production by Xinhua The Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) said on Sunday plans were afoot to introduce 13 new grape varieties from South Africa to boost production of wine in the country. “The new grape varieties will also improve the country’s production of grapes,” said Cornel […]
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COVID-19 recovery is a chance to improve the African food system The World Food Programme has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause one of the worst food crises since World War II. It predicts a doubling of the number of people going hungry – more than half of them in sub-Saharan Africa. While wealthier people stay inside and practise physical distancing, the […]
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How sensors and Big Data can help cut food wastage Modern farming has evolved by adopting technical advances such as machines for ploughing and harvesting, controlled irrigation, fertilisers, pesticides, crop breeding and genetics research. These have helped farmers to produce large crops of good quality in a fairly predictable way. But there’s still progress to […]
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How West Africa can expand power supply and meet climate goals Not too long ago, when the idea of solar and wind energy was still hotly debated, critics used to point out the limitations of these energy sources: the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow. But nowadays many countries’ electricity grids are strongly […]
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Agrico Offers Precise Irrigation, Effortlessly in Zambia By Salim Dawood, ProAgri Zambia Time is money. If you irrigate hundreds of hectares, frequent trips to and from pivots to manually switch them on and off, change their direction or regulate their water application, can take a lot of costly time and effort. Philip […]
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Part 3: Where do the Black Swans come from? Dr. Anton Verwey & Johan Maritz Background In two articles published earlier this year, we first explored the appearance of what we referred to as “A Bevy of Black Swans”, and in a subsequent article published in the midst of the global COVID19 pandemic explored […]
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A Partnership for Growth: AGR & AFAP combine forces to boost crop yields in Zambia An initiative, which involves a US$40 million fertilizer-revolving facility and another US$170 million for value addition is to be implemented in the Eastern, Northern, Western, Central, Lusaka and Copperbelt provinces under the first phase from the 1st July 2020. The initiative […]
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