- Feb- 2021 -19 FebruaryEnvironment
Ivory Coast lost 47,000 hectares of forest to cocoa production in 2020, environmental group says
Ivory Coast lost 47,000 hectares (116,000 acres) of forest in its cocoa-growing regions in 2020, an environmental group said on…
Read More » - Aug- 2020 -3 AugustClimate
Cameroon tomato farmers count losses to wild weather and lockdown
Tomato farmer Gregory Ngwana is used to good years. But this season, wild weather – too little rainfall and then…
Read More » - Jul- 2020 -20 JulyAquaculture
Kenya fishermen say they are squeezed by Ethiopian mega-dam
Fishermen on the shores of Kenya’s Lake Turkana, the world’s biggest desert lake, have no doubt about what is to…
Read More » - 20 JulyPoultry
Ethiopian farmers slaughter thousands of chicks as Covid-19 hits demand
Ethiopian poultry farmers have destroyed hundreds of thousands of chicks, as the sector reels from a collapse in demand from…
Read More » - Jun- 2020 -29 JuneEnvironment
Heavy rains in Ivory Coast boost prospects for main cocoa harvest, but hurt mid-crop
Above-average rains last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa regions bode well for the start of the next main…
Read More » - 22 JuneCrops
U.S. farming body and Zambian firm partner aim to boost crop yields
An American non-profit organisation has launched a $40 million joint venture with one of Zambia’s top farm suppliers to boost…
Read More » - 17 JuneInvesting
South Africa’s Tongaat to sell eSwatini sugarcane farm for $21 million
Indebted South African sugar producer Tongaat Hulett said on Wednesday it would sell a sugarcane farm in eSwatini to the…
Read More » - 12 JuneMarkets
Coronavirus slams West Africa’s cashew market, some crops left to rot
Olivier Gore-Bi took out loans to ready his 12-acre cashew farm in Ivory Coast for harvest. He is now leaving…
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