By Gashaw Tadesse Abate, Tanguy Bernard, Alan de Brauw, Nicholas Minot and Elena Hildebrandt Smallholder farmers in Africa South of the Sahara often experience low yields, and efforts to increase them have sprouted throughout the continent. Yet many farmers fail to adopt modern inputs or
By Yinuo Li One in a series of guest blog posts from leading voices in global development on achieving long-term sustainability and growth while ending hunger, poverty, and malnutrition. Agricultural cooperation was one of the main topics at the recent 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on
Insurance Plc, on Wednesday launched its new product aimed to strengthen the agricultural sector. Mr Edwin Igbiti, AIICO Managing Director said at the launch of the `AIICO Agriculture insurance’ in Lagos that it would boost agriculture production, economic development and employment rate in the country.
Africa’s leading businessman, Aliko Dangote has called for conscious efforts at deepening African regional market by African investors and governments to aid rapid growth and development of the continent’s economy. Dangote spoke in London during “One to One Conversation” at the on-going 5th annual Financial
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) has appealed to the government and organisers of the 2018 Agriculture Show to provide adequate security at the show to avoid cases of theft. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the show is sponsored by National
The World Bank has described growth in sub-Saharan Africa as very slow in the October edition of the Bank’s biannual report dubbed, Africa’s Pulse. The region recorded a growth of 2.7 percent, in 2018 which is a 0.4 percent rise from the 2.3 percent recorded
Nigeria has lost opportunity of exporting 1.4 million tons of coal from the middle belt area of the country to Ghana annually, the Nigerian Export Import Bank, NEXIM has said. Speaking at the Sub-regional workshop and joint committee meeting organized by the Union of African
South Africa hopes to finalise its biofuels regulatory framework by March next year, the energy minister said on Monday, almost a decade after the policy to promote biofuels like ethanol and biodiesel was first approved. A net importer of crude, Africa’s most industrialised economy wants
The European Union (EU) has denied the proposed ban on palm oil importation from Nigeria to the union. Mr Kurt Cornelis, the Head of Cooperation, EU Delegation to Nigeria and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said in Abuja on Thursday that the EU
EIGHTEEN fertliser blending plants have successfully been restored under the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI), according to the Fertiliser Producers and Suppliers Association of Nigeria (FEPSAN). President of the association, Thomas Etuh, made the revelation in Abuja, stating that the revived plants are now functional. According