In 2015, a twenty-seven-year-old Lesego Holzapfel moved home to South Africa from the UK to build a sustainable business that invested in agriculture’s most marginalized voices.

Earth’s oldest continent has long evoked wonder. Yet that ancient proverb, “Africa always brings forth something new”, today resonates most in escalating challenges – and solutions – to water.

In NASA satellite images, forest fires in central Africa appear to burn alarmingly like a red chain from Gabon to Angola similar to the blazes in Brazil’s Amazon that sparked global outcry.

– Japan will offer enhanced trade insurance to boost private sector investment in Africa, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday as his country competes with rival China for influence in the resource-rich continent.

Although donor funds have assisted with training farmers, providing inputs such as seeds and machinery, and building agriculture-related infrastructure, the sector has experienced limited growth. Ultimately, institutional reform lies at the heart of sustainable agriculture development in southern Africa.

South Africa’s biotech crop adoption went up a further 3% in just one year between 2017 and 2018, a new report has revealed.

The Bayer Foundation today launched its new EUR 20 million Social Innovation ecosystem fund by awarding EUR 3 million to four pioneering social innovators – myAgro, MercyCorps, Path and Living Goods. The fund aims to scale up technology and entrepreneurial solutions that empower African smallholder farmers to lift themselves out of poverty.

Africa realised revenue of 127 million euros along the agriculture value chain last year, despite the availability of a market valued at 2.3 billion euro, the Digitisation of African Agriculture Report (2018-2019) has said.

More than 50 African countries took part in the first China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo in China in June, hoping to tap into the massive Chinese market.

UK farmers are rushing to finish their harvests and send their surpluses abroad before the Brexit deadline of 31 October, when a no-deal departure could force them to turn to Africa.

Most Americans don’t spend time giving much thought to Africa. But from my recent trip to Africa, I think they should.

The revenue of the cocoa butter market in the European Union amounted to $3.8B in 2018, rising by 1.9% against the previous year.

Trade Fairs are the best opportunity to enter the market and approach the country's rural producers, who should make investments to modernize the machines and help feed the world in the coming years. Brazil has returned to the agenda of international investors.

The palm oil market size in Africa is estimated at $8.2B in 2018, an increase of 3.7% against the previous year.

The special report on global warming of 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels marks a critical point in climate negotiations. Billed in the media as “life changing,” the report illustrates how crossing the ever-nearer threshold of 1.5℃ warming will affect the planet, and how difficult it will be to avoid overshooting this target.

Although favorable environmental conditions, limitless availability of land, and high demands of fruits and vegetables at the target markets, the export of fresh agricultural produce from most African (and Asian) countries is very small and nearly insignificant.

A united African continent working towards common goals would be a major force on the global economic stage.

Civil society organisations and citizens across Africa are calling upon their governments to issue an immediate ban on all use of glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs).

THE demand for macadamia nuts is expected to grow significantly in the near future, driven by changes in consumption patterns, hence a lucrative opportunity for local producers to grow their exports, ZimTrade has said.

The world’s biggest cocoa producer is on course for a second straight record crop, but its plans for bigger control over prices for the following season will remain a major cause of uncertainty for traders.