Somewhere— from the highlands of East Africa to the Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean or the Pacific— a farmer is struggling to coax life from her modest plot that has been battered by ...

PS State Department for Irrigation Ephantus Kimotho before PAC at Bunge Towers, Parliament, Nairobi on March 27, 2025. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] The government is rolling out a farmer-led irrigation ...

Globally, agriculture faces mounting pressures. These are driven by climate change, land degradation, labor shortages, supply chain disruptions and the demand for food from a growing population. At ...

To help smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, it is important for extension agents and government workers to know which crops are being grown in specific fields. In a country such as Nigeria, one ...

Chocolate is one of the world's most widely consumed foods. It is made from cacao beans grown by millions of smallholder farmers globally. High-quality cacao beans require optimal growing conditions, ...

The World Bank is doubling down on agriculture’s potential as a global development vehicle in hopes that greater investments in smallhold farms will boost jobs, prosperity and food security in ...

Before sunrise, across small plots of land stretching from the temperate rural heartlands of Southern Africa to the tropical landscapes of East and West Africa, millions of smallholder farmers begin ...

Across South Africa’s rural landscape, thousands of hectares of fertile land lie unused. Irrigation systems have collapsed, water no longer reaches crops reliably, and many farmers lack the support ...

The Presidential Food Systems Coordinating Unit (PFSCU) yesterday got a presidential directive to fast-track the disbursement of the Federal Government’s N250 billion credit support facility for ...

Industrial farming landscapes often have shortages of pollinators, which can cause production limitations for produce that needs them – and often lead to dire predictions (or at least online images of ...