Most African agricultural exports, however, go to non-African markets, requiring infrastructure and logistics investments to ...

Agriculture is the backbone of Africa’s economy, playing a crucial role in employment, food security, and economic development. However, the continent is at a critical juncture, facing rapid ...

Farming has long been seen as low-status work across much of Africa, pushing young people to cities in search of office jobs ...

President of the African Academy of Sciences Lise Korsten speaks at the 2025 General Assembly of the China-Africa Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Alliance in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's ...

By Aimable Twahirwa The agriculture sector’s adaptation to climate change in Africa remains severely underfunded, say ...

The year 2025 was a generally good year for South Africa’s agriculture and the broader farming sector. We emerged from a drought and heatwave in 2024 and saw excellent harvests of crops, fruits, an ...

Three African youth-led Agritech businesses— Kenya’s DigiCow, Botswana’s Brastorne Enterprises and Nigeria’s ThriveAgric— will receive mentorship and $1.5 million in grants to help them to ...

With Africa's vast arable land and China's agricultural technology and experience, both partners view cooperation in this sector as essential for achieving food security, poverty reduction and ...

On October 21, 2025, on the sidelines of the Financial Times Africa Summit in London, I sat with the CNBC folks for a broad conversation about South African and Southern African agricultural ...

In a neat, compact classroom at the Sanya Institute of China Agricultural University (CAU) in Sanya, South China's Hainan Province, eight African doctoral students leaned forward, notebooks open and ...

The dreaded crop-eating fall armyworm continues to spread across Africa like wildfire. This invasive insect pest, first reported in Africa in early 2016, is in more than 20 African countries including ...