Miss Bamidele Seun Owoola is an entrepreneur. She is the founder/Managing Director of Welcome2Africa International, a firm that promotes investments in Nigeria and Africa, especially in the agro-allied industries. She spoke with Head of Agro-Economy, FEMI IBIROGBA at a workshop the company organized in Lagos,
Billions are spent on humanitarian aid, yet nearly 60 million children across Africa go to bed hungry. Efforts to alleviate the constant cycle of droughts, poverty and war have caused new problems. The biggest of these is a crippling dependency on food aid that is undermining much
Digitisation could change the game for agriculture in Africa. That’s a key message in a report recently released by an international institution that enhances smallholder farming in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. The Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) focuses on poverty reduction through modernising smallholder farming by
The United Nations has warned of drought, disease and war preventing farmers from producing enough food for millions of people across Africa and other regions, leading to the need for major aid operations. A report called the Crop Prospects and Food Situation by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture
Fall Creek Nursery has decided to get closer to the African industry through establishing a subsidiary in the Western Cape, with an initial focus on South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Eswatini (Swaziland). Fall Creek’s blueberry varieties are not unknown in South Africa, where the American
In the Sundays River Valley, San Miguel is about a third of the way through a lemon harvest which was delayed by some weeks due to slow colouring. While lemons have been late, Eastern Cape navels have been early, placing pressure on packhouses. At San
Wreathed in barbecue smoke, Vetjaera Haakuria gestures at the men butchering meat and cooking it over hot coals behind his back. “What have you learned about the risks of eating this?” he asks his young audience, spotless in their white lab coats. “It might contain
This year marks the fourth year of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to address global challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change and environmental degradation, and to ensure that no one is left behind. It also marks the mid-point of the
Kenya and the Netherlands, on Monday, signed terms of reference for bilateral cooperation in agriculture. Mwangi Kiunjuri, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation who signed the deal in Nairobi with Dutch Vice Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food quality
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