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Water Returns to Cameroon’s Bénoué Valley: How Irrigation Is Reviving Rice Farming and Rural Livelihoods

After years of unreliable water supplies and declining harvests, farmers in northern Cameroon are beginning to see new possibilities as irrigation infrastructure is restored in the Bénoué Valley. The investment is helping revive rice production while creating employment and strengthening local agricultural skills.

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Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture: How Farmers Can Help Put More Nutritious Food on African Tables

Increasing food production is important, but the nutritional value of what is grown also matters. By diversifying crops, reducing post-harvest losses and connecting farmers to markets for nutritious foods, African agricultural systems can contribute to healthier diets as well as stronger rural livelihoods.

Staff Writer • Oct 15, 2026

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Beyond Maize and Wheat: How Africa’s Traditional Crops Can Support Better Nutrition

Millet, sorghum, cowpeas, beans, leafy vegetables and other locally adapted crops can contribute to more diverse diets while creating new opportunities for farmers and food businesses. Protecting crop diversity and strengthening local markets could help African communities connect agricultural production with nutrition.

Staff Writer • Oct 15, 2026

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Can Stronger Regional Rice Value Chains Create New Opportunities for African Agribusiness?

Rice connects farmers, millers, traders, transporters and consumers across West Africa. New efforts to strengthen regional business links are drawing attention to the importance of processing capacity, reliable supply, quality standards and cross-border trade in developing a more competitive rice industry.

Staff Writer • Oct 15, 2026

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From Farm to Factory: Why Agro-Processing Could Unlock More Value for African Farmers

Africa’s agricultural opportunity extends beyond growing more food. By strengthening local processing, storage, packaging and market connections, agribusinesses can help farmers reduce post-harvest losses, access more reliable buyers and capture a greater share of the value created from their produce.

Staff Writer • Oct 15, 2026

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Ghana's Poultry Industry Gets a New Push as Government Targets Local Chicken Production

Ghana is intensifying efforts to revive domestic poultry production through a new farm-to-table approach that combines farmer finance, feed, improved breeds, training and direct market connections.

Staff Writer • Oct 4, 2026

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Nigeria Targets Local Poultry Genetics With Proposed $5.6 Million Grandparent Stock Investment

Nigeria is looking to strengthen the foundation of its poultry industry by developing local grandparent-stock production, a move aimed at reducing dependence on imported breeding material and expanding domestic chicken production.

Staff Writer • Oct 4, 2026

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South Africa Moves to Scale Up Local Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccine Production

South Africa is opening the door to private-sector participation in the manufacture of its locally developed foot-and-mouth disease vaccine, in a move that could strengthen livestock biosecurity and reduce manufacturing constraints.

Staff Writer • Oct 4, 2026

Kenya's Digital Agriculture Push: 8.9 Million Farmers Already Registered as Government Builds a Data-Driven Farming System

Kenya is accelerating the digital transformation of agriculture, with millions of farmers already registered on government systems designed to improve access to inputs, animal health services, extension and markets.

Staff Writer • Oct 4, 2026

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Zambia Takes Its Agrifood Investment Story to Rome as Beef, Soybeans, Beans and Honey Move Into the Spotlight

Zambia is preparing to take four agricultural value chains — beef, common beans, soybeans and honey — to an international investment forum in Rome, highlighting a growing push to turn agricultural potential into bankable businesses, exports and rural jobs.

Staff Writer • Oct 4, 2026

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The Nutrition Crisis Hiding in Africa's Soil — And the Farmers Already Fixing It

Africa's food and nutrition security challenges are frequently discussed in terms of seeds, fertiliser access, and climate shocks. Less visible, but arguably just as foundational, is the health of the soil itself — and a growing body of evidence suggests that restoring degraded soil may be one of the more directly effective ways to improve both crop yields and the nutritional quality of what those crops actually produce.

Staff Writer • Sep 19, 2026

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Inside the Equipment Boom Powering Africa's Poultry Expansion

Behind every new commercial poultry farm rising across Africa — from Ethiopia's emerging mega-hatcheries to Nigeria's expanding broiler operations — sits a less visible but equally critical industry: the manufacturers and suppliers of the incubators, hatchery automation systems, and processing equipment that make large-scale poultry production possible in the first place. As Africa's poultry sector expands to meet rising demand for affordable protein, the equipment supply chain behind it is scaling up right alongside it.

Staff Writer • Sep 19, 2026

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The Robots Are Coming for Africa's Milking Parlours — Slowly, and for Good Reason

Since the world's first robotic milking system was installed on a Dutch dairy farm in 1992, the technology has spread to more than 40,000 dairy operations worldwide. Africa's dairy sector, by contrast, has remained largely untouched by the shift — but that's beginning to change, as South African dairy farmers and industry publications start seriously weighing whether automated milking makes commercial sense on the continent.

Staff Writer • Sep 19, 2026

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Beyond Cattle: Why Goats and Pigs Are Becoming Africa's Most Talked-About Livestock Investment

For decades, livestock investment conversations across Africa have orbited almost entirely around cattle, dairy, and poultry. That's starting to change, as goat and pig farming increasingly draw serious commercial attention from investors, entrepreneurs, and development finance institutions who see underexploited economics in animals long dismissed as smallholder side ventures.

Staff Writer • Sep 19, 2026

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Southern Africa Is Swimming in Maize and Soybeans — So Why Isn't Everyone Cashing In?

Southern Africa's grain belt has produced back-to-back bumper harvests, and the 2025/26 season is shaping up as one of the strongest in years across South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe simultaneously. Yet as the region's Agricultural Networking and Advocacy Programme for Rural Initiatives has bluntly put it regarding Zambia's position: a bumper harvest does not automatically become export earnings.

Staff Writer • Sep 19, 2026

Southern Africa's Beef Trade Enters a High-Stakes Season: A US Window Opens as the EU Slams a Door

Southern Africa's beef export industry is navigating one of its most consequential stretches in years, with a temporary US tariff window creating a rare opportunity even as Botswana's most lucrative European market abruptly closed. For an industry built on tight sanitary margins and long-negotiated trade protocols, the past several months have delivered both genuine opportunity and a sharp reminder of how fragile export access can be.

Staff Writer • Sep 19, 2026

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Silent Killer on the Riverbank: Anthrax Outbreak Grips Zambia's Muchinga Province

A wave of unexplained animal deaths along the Munyamadzi River has turned into one of Zambia's most closely watched health emergencies of the year. With hippos, elephants and buffalo dying in the dozens — and a dozen villagers now infected after eating bushmeat — authorities are racing to contain a disease that has stalked this corner of Africa for over a century.

Staff Writer • Sep 16, 2026

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The Solar Freezers Fighting Africa's 40% Post-Harvest Food Loss

Investors are betting big on solar freezers and biodigesters as Africa loses up to 40% of harvests before they reach market. Here's why the money moved.

Staff Writer • Sep 10, 2026

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Africa's $210 Billion Livestock Question: Why the Continent Still Imports What It Could Produce

Africa's livestock sector generates over $210bn a year, yet the continent imports much of its meat and milk. Nigeria and AU-IBAR are betting big on change.

Staff Writer • Sep 10, 2026

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From Skies to Soil: How AI and Drones Are Transforming Farming Across Africa

Drones diagnose sick crops in hours, not weeks, and AI chatbots now speak to farmers in local languages. Inside Africa's fast-moving agritech boom.

Staff Writer • Sep 10, 2026

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The Envelope That Could Replace a Truckload: Inside Kenya's Quiet Potato Seed Revolution

For as long as anyone can remember, growing potatoes has meant hauling tonnes of bulky, disease-prone seed tubers from farm to farm. In Kenya, a Dutch agtech company has spent years proving there's another way — one where a season's planting material fits in an envelope instead of a truck. More than 200 Kenyan farmers are now growing potatoes from true seed instead of tubers, and the rest of Africa is watching closely.

Staff Writer • Aug 29, 2026

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Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture: How Farmers Can Help Put More Nutritious Food on African Tables

Beyond Maize and Wheat: How Africa’s Traditional Crops Can Support Better Nutrition

Can Stronger Regional Rice Value Chains Create New Opportunities for African Agribusiness?

From Farm to Factory: Why Agro-Processing Could Unlock More Value for African Farmers

Ghana's Poultry Industry Gets a New Push as Government Targets Local Chicken Production

Nigeria Targets Local Poultry Genetics With Proposed $5.6 Million Grandparent Stock Investment

South Africa Moves to Scale Up Local Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccine Production

Kenya's Digital Agriculture Push: 8.9 Million Farmers Already Registered as Government Builds a Data-Driven Farming System

Zambia Takes Its Agrifood Investment Story to Rome as Beef, Soybeans, Beans and Honey Move Into the Spotlight

The Nutrition Crisis Hiding in Africa's Soil — And the Farmers Already Fixing It

Inside the Equipment Boom Powering Africa's Poultry Expansion

The Robots Are Coming for Africa's Milking Parlours — Slowly, and for Good Reason

Beyond Cattle: Why Goats and Pigs Are Becoming Africa's Most Talked-About Livestock Investment

Southern Africa Is Swimming in Maize and Soybeans — So Why Isn't Everyone Cashing In?

Southern Africa's Beef Trade Enters a High-Stakes Season: A US Window Opens as the EU Slams a Door

Silent Killer on the Riverbank: Anthrax Outbreak Grips Zambia's Muchinga Province

The Solar Freezers Fighting Africa's 40% Post-Harvest Food Loss

Africa's $210 Billion Livestock Question: Why the Continent Still Imports What It Could Produce

From Skies to Soil: How AI and Drones Are Transforming Farming Across Africa

The Envelope That Could Replace a Truckload: Inside Kenya's Quiet Potato Seed Revolution