- Jun- 2020 -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…
Read More » - 2 JuneInvesting
Ivory Coast rains bring relief to cocoa farmers
Above-average rains last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions could boost the last stage of the April-to-September cocoa…
Read More » - May- 2020 -21 MayBusiness
World Bank approves record $500 million to battle locust swarms
The World Bank on Thursday approved a record $500 million in grants and low-interest loans to help countries in Africa…
Read More » - 19 MayEconomy
Kenya’s herb farmers crushed by virus blow to exports
For many farmers in Kenya, a bout of prolonged rain and flooding, as the East African nation has experienced since…
Read More » - 12 MayBusiness
South Africa’s Tongaat, Barloworld in deadlock over starch business deal
South Africa’s heavily indebted sugar producer Tongaat Hulett is in a deadlock over the sale of its starch business to…
Read More » - 1 MayCrops
Climate-smart cassava gets new use in Zambia
To deal with drier conditions brought by a shifting climate, farmer Pamela Nyirenda last year shifted to growing drought-hardy cassava,…
Read More » - Apr- 2020 -13 AprilClimate
Rain-short Zimbabwe fights taboo against farming drought-hardy grain
Samuel Mudziwepasi lost his entire maize crop in the last farming season, when a drought ravaged much of Zimbabwe. Now…
Read More » - 12 AprilNews
Kenyan farmers battle fruit-fly menace as climate warms
Gideon Gitonga inspected his avocado orchard in central Kenya with military precision, revealing that some of the fruit were tinged…
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