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- Oct- 2025 -27 October
Africa loses 29.6 million hectares of forest in a decade
Africa holds 16% of global forest cover, which ranks the continent fourth behind Europe, South America and the region combining…
Read More » - 27 October
Empowering Ghana’s youth for a sustainable future in livestock and fisheries
Over 50 young agripreneurs, farmers, and stakeholders gathered in Ho for a two-day Multi-Stakeholder Youth Dialogue on Sustainable Livestock and…
Read More » - 24 October
Micropropagation of plum cultivars: A first for South Africa
Micropropagation in tissue culture is widely recognised as an effective method for the mass production of disease-free plants. It’s especially…
Read More » - 23 October
Ghana expects cocoa output to exceed 650,000 tons in the 2025/26 season
Ghana expects cocoa production to exceed 650,000 tons during the 2025/26 season, Agriculture Minister Eric Opoku said at the Norman…
Read More » - 23 October
AfDB Group receives US$14 million in first funding allocation under GAFSP’s new private sector financing window
The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) has announced the first allocation from its new private sector financing window…
Read More » - 22 October
Morocco’s CANNAFLEX exports first cannabis-based medicine
Morocco’s legal cannabis industry has reached a new stage in its development with its first international sale of a cannabis-based…
Read More » - 21 October
R350,000 boost to enter meat value chain for rural livestock cooperative
A R350,000 injection into an Eastern Cape rural livestock cooperative last week from the Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) managed…
Read More » - 20 October
Tiny parasitic wasp helping Kenyan farmers control papaya mealybug
A tiny parasitic wasp, Acerophagus papayae, is helping Kenyan farmers recover from the devastation caused by the papaya mealybug, an…
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