Smallholder farming has been neglected over the past 25 years of South Africa’s attempt to redistribute land taken away from black people during the apartheid era.

The proportion of smallholder farms globally may be much larger than previously thought, suggesting that their current contribution to global food production could be underestimated, a crowdsourcing study reveals.

A great deal of research on agriculture in Africa is organised around the premise that intensification can take smallholder farmers out of poverty. The emphasis in programming often focuses on technologies that increase farm productivity and management practices that go along with them.

In West Africa, agricultural production tends to fluctuate.

The minister of agriculture, land reform and rural development, Thoko Didiza, today announced funding allocations to mitigate food security in the country through a R1.2 billion cash injection for small-scale farmers.

The world is at a standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the smallholder farmers who feed millions of Africans are not given much attention and support.

The COVID-19 pandemic is devastating service delivery globally, but in developing countries it is crippling an industry that, in theory, should be well positioned to weather the crisis: land administration.

Governments need to support millions of smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa as the agriculture sector bears the brunt of COVID-19 lockdowns and trade restrictions, scientists say.

The United Nations issued its annual hunger report , ringing alarm bells the world over as governments gird for a coming COVID-19-induced food crisis.

The SA agricultural sector has thus far successfully harvested summer crops with minimal interruption from the pandemic.

New equipment is expensive. So expensive, in fact, that investing in new – and even newer used – equipment can seem like an insurmountable hurdle for smaller-scale producers.

Applications to apply for government’s presidential stimulus package worth R1 billion, opens on Thursday 10 December.

The possession, cultivation and use of cannabis for private use is expected to be passed into law in two years’ time.

South Africa’s smallholder farmers, the poorest of the nation’s poor, are being supported by Australian beef industry knowledge in an ambitious plan to put their beef on the plates of the nation’s wealthy consumers.

Poor production methods and limited market access are some of the challenges that prevent small African farmers from developing.

here are fifty four countries on the continent of Africa and agriculture is a key driver of social and economic growth in each of them.

The latest climate science reaffirms that global catastrophic weather conditions in the past decade can be attributed to climate change.

Regenerative agriculture could transform farming in Africa, increase food production through better land and water management, create millions of jobs and help trap greenhouse gasses — combating climate change.

Since the start of the year, the sugar industry has distributed more than R225 million to Small-Scale Growers.

To continue to provide agricultural support even after the training programme has ended is a key goal of the Farming for Tomorrow rural development initiative, said Sulaimaan Patel, the training and development manager at Agri Enterprises, a subsidiary of Agri SA, at a media briefing in Pretoria on Monday.