The third annual Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) was released last week. The report finds both good news and bad news for Africa’s trading system, as well as a few promising trends.

Kaduna State is known as a hub for agriculture centred activities with high crop production performance in most crops especially maize. The state is closely aligned with agriculture owing to the advantageous climatic and soil conditions it...

The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition is today announcing the launch of its new Foresight 2.0 report: Future Food Systems: For people, our planet, and prosperity. The report has been produced by an independent internationa...

The amount of food lost each year due to post-harvest loss (PHL) is enough to feed the total number of undernourished people globally. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) alone, which unfortunately is home to over 230 million people suffering from chronic...

Agriculture is essential to the economies of East African countries. Climate change, with its effects on temperature and precipitation, threatens this important economic activity. How to foster agricultural development and food security in East Af...

Africa has enormous potential, not only to feed itself and eliminate hunger and food insecurity but also to be a major player in global food markets. This potential lies in its land, water, and oceans, in its men and women, in its knowledge, and h...

The rapid expansion of agri‐food exports from low‐ and middle‐income countries and the contribution of global value chains to rural development is well‐documented in the literature. Also studies on modernization of domestic food value chains in th...

For the past 50 years, Daisy Namusoke has grown crops on her small plot of land in the Buikwe District of Central Uganda, mostly to feed her husband, five children, and two grandchildren. Like most smallholder farmers in Africa, she grows a mix of...

Collaboration between government and private sector is crucial The importance of agricultural growth in Africa is highlighted during the upcoming World Food Day on 16th October that focuses on raising awareness of world hunger and food security. T...

Improved irrigation and agricultural practices are touted as efficient ways to mitigate drought impacts. Paradoxically, that may not be the case in Jordan, where the use of state-of-the-art irrigation technology by commercial farmers in the East has...

Striga — an invasive parasitic weed with purple-colored flowers — looks striking and harmless. But beyond that mark of beauty is a nutrient-sucking monster that stunts crops such as maize and sorghum, leaving affected farmers counting losses. Witc...

This post is by Kristen Dechert and Melissa Chapnick and originally appeared on the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish website. Dechert is the marketing and communications manager at the Fish Innovation Lab and is based at Mississippi State Univ...