Browsing: farming in Africa

Tanzania’s agriculture sector holds one-third of the country’s GDP and employs 75 per cent of the population. The government target…

Kenyan youth are frequently asked to consider farming as a way of making a living Some agree while others rubbish…

Africa’s fast population growth exacerbates the issue. According to most estimates, Africa’s population will double by 2050 and then double again by 2100, finally reaching over 4 billion by the end of the century. Feeding Africa’s rising population will need considerable breakthroughs in the continent’s food systems.

However, agricultural progress may be difficult if African farmers are subjected to more severe climatic effects. To prepare for these future difficulties, one must understand how climate change will materialize in Africa and its impact on the continent’s agricultural systems.

Cocoa is a signature cash-crop for Ivory Coast US Department of Agriculture slated to invest $61 million in Ivory Coast…

Across the region, agriculture has been a crucial economic activity that has to levitate communities’ economies and promote some major changes, in farmer’s lives. 

Farming has changed significantly over the past decade. This change has not occurred or is being adopted evenly across the globe. Europe, North, South America, and Asia have been developing and utilizing agriculture mechanization quite fast. 

However, the latter has not been active in sub-Saharan Africa for a while. For the record, farming practices present during the 1960s when most of Africa, was liberating itself from colonial hands, are largely being divorced currently. 

Kenya’s agriculture has beaten the odds of a difficult 2020 to end on a high, having registered one of the…

This article aims to highlight the challenges and implications of COVID-19 in the agricultural sector using current industry trends and outcomes to forecast the impact…