VOSBURG, South Africa (AP) — Residents call this drought-stricken community a “forgotten town.” The flat, dusty roads to Vosburg are surrounded by withered fields. The streams feeding the community of a few thousand people have…
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ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — For the first time drones are being tested to help fight malaria on the island of Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania. In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, stagnant…
THIKA, Kenya (AP) — A growing number of Kenyan farmers are turning to silk production, in a move away from traditional cash crops such as coffee, maize, sugarcane and cotton. The rearing of silkworms is…
JOHANNESBURG — The South African government today apologized to white farmers for “poor communication” about its possible expropriation of their land to speed up agricultural reform and to put more farmland in black hands. The…
KIGALI, RWANDA — From an app to diagnose disease on Zambian farms to Tinder-style matchmaking for Senegalese landowners and young farmers, young coders have been finding solutions to hunger in the first Africa-wide hackathon on…
Ghana will ban the importation of all tilapia fish to prevent the outbreak of a virus which posed a huge risk to the global tilapia industry. The Ministry of Fisheries said Tilapia Lake Virus (TilV)…
According to one soybean farmer; “China is going against middle America” CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. soybean futures outpaced falls across most other markets on Friday as the trade war with China escalated and Beijing said…
The Federal Government says it will shut down the land border between Nigeria and a neighboring country in a few days time to avoid smuggling of foreign rice into the country. Audu Ogbeh, the Minister…
Ivory Coast has been described by the Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI) as the new breadbasket of West Africa. The organization pointed out that agriculture and the food industry, especially in Abidjan, have been very…
POLO, ILLINOIS — Since 1980 when he began farming in Illinois, Brent Scholl’s mornings have consisted of a similar routine … waking early to head out to one of several buildings to check in on…