Researchers find at least 4,184 of the endangered big cats have been since 2009Researchers trawled through 60,000 online adverts over the past decade to understand the extent of the trade.
There is an unbelievable contrast today in Africa: How can a continent with such an abundance of arable land, water and sunshine annually import food worth $35 billion? How can it be that the continent is not food secure? This must change.
While Africa is currently responsible for a negligible amount of total global greenhouse gas emissions, the continent is under significant threat from climate change.
A R17m grant over the next five years will help develop science-based solutions and developing technologies that utilise indigenous knowledge (IK) and South African iconic biodiversity to produce high-quality proprietary and commercial African traditional medicine (ATM) products, focusing on priority diseases.
Ivory Coast and Ghana asked cocoa and chocolate companies last week to pay more in premiums to support farmers' wages, the head of Ivory Coast's industry regulator told Reuters -
African universities need to increase investment in postgraduate training to produce the knowledge and human resources needed to support the agriculture sector.
Kat Becker feeds hundreds of people with the vegetables she grows on her Wisconsin farm, and she wants to expand. But her ability to grow her business collides with her need for affordable health insurance and child care.
At the bustling Indian Ocean port of Beira, in Mozambique, steel cranes stack containers full of raw tobacco leaves into ships’ holds, ready for export to processing plants around the world.
Countries that have developed successfully have shifted resources from agriculture to manufacturing.
In 1938, French colonial authorities in what is today Mali started on an ambitious infrastructure plan to transform the desert into an area of agricultural production.
As demonstrated in our previous posts, agriculture plays a crucial role in the economic sector of Africa. Over 60% of sub-Saharan Africans are smallholder farmers and nearly a quarter of Africa’s GDP comes from agriculture.
The United Nations (UN) recently launched the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide.
It was Halloween and the discussion had inevitably turned to death – and flesh-eating zombies. I had just finished lunch at a “research away day” when I got caught up in a conversation about carrion beetles with a new colleague of mine, Sheena Cotter.
It is an unfortunate yet inescapable reality that Covid-19 will be a key determinant in Africa’s economic growth in the short term.
Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa is under-performing, leaving 30% of people in the region food insecure.
The COVID-19 pandemic has stifled many sectors of the global economy.
The agricultural economy is often a tale of two sides. On one side, you have exports — which often means trade with the fastest growing agricultural importer, China.
What will it take to build sustainable, resilient food systems in African countries? This was among the questions considered at the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit in late July.
The generation of quality jobs as part of regional and national economic growth and development process is central to ensuring sustainable and inclusive growth.
For many decades, it has been perceived that the solution to food insecurity in Africa is increased agricultural productivity.
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