The grant will help improve agricultural productivity and agribusiness development in the Niassa province ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, January 5, 2022/ --...
Natural Resources and Agriculture
By DENISE KYALWAHI, DRC Illegal and unregulated fishing has become a common practice on Lake Edward. In past years, Lake...
U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentPress ReleaseDecember 15, 2021 PRETORIA–The U.S. Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID),...
Voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) such as Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance, and Bonsucro can help reduce global poverty among the smallholder farmers that make up many of the world's poor, according to a new report...
Mozambique has the third-longest coastline in Africa, with enormous coastal resources that contribute significantly to the economy VILANCULOS, Mozambique, December 1,...
Bongani Siziba, South Africa From the entrance at first glance one would mistake it for just an open space with...
Our Reporter While many parts of the Eastern Province of Rwanda continue to be affected by the lack of rain,...
At COP26, President Biden highlighted USAID’s commitment to the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate) to support research...
By Justin Kayiranga The Green Amayaga Forest Landscape Restoration in the Mayaga region (FLR Mayaga) project is a ground-breaking six-year...
The continent has immense potential to feed itself and to become a breadbasket to the world: about 65 percent of...
By DUSABEMUNGU Ange de la Victoire Farmers in Nyaruguru District have called for more improvements that will lead to the...
The $10 million award will enable the creation of the first-ever U.S. government-funded cultivated protein research center of excellence and...
During the roundtable, members of the AIF team presented an outline of the deals to investors ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, October 10,...
Rwanda's Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry has revealed that it is considering the creation of a special fund, which...
ACCRA, Ghana, October 5, 2021/ -- First targeted European Investment Bank (www.EIB.org) support for sustainable agriculture investment in Zambia; Initiative to...
United States Agency for International Development Press Release September 29, 2021 The below is attributable to Spokesperson Rebecca Chalif: Today,...
Agriculture is the backbone of Rwanda’s economy, accounting for 80 percent of the country’s earnings and 39 percent of gross...
ROME, Italy, September 20, 2021/ -- Small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are impacted disproportionately by climate change, poverty and undernutrition,...
Nearly two years ago, Rwanda, in partnership with Japan, launched its first satellite, Rwasat-1 that sends information to ground...
Funding will enable Anifera to investigate efficacy of their leading compound to enhance antibiotic treatment for bovine mastitis, a significant...
New research led by the University of Oxford, published in Conservation Letters, has examined the conflict between small-scale fisheries...
Over the past two years, Damacene’s production has increased from 400kg of maize to 500kg, thanks to newly built...
PRESS RELEASE Embargoed: 1st Sept 2021 at 9:00 AM (KIGALI, 30 September 2021)- To increase the capacity of farmers in...
By Ange de la Victoire DUSABEMUNGU Rwanda’s Minister of Youth and Culture, other officials from various ministries have urged young...
Survey from Heifer International finds budding crop of young Africans rapidly producing new high-tech farming tools-and identifies new ways to...
The Rubavu District Administration has announced that the rehabilitation of the Sebeya catchment has started to produce positive results, thanks...
By Ange de la Victoire DUSABEMUNGU At least 70 former beggars and people with disabilities benefit from joint work in...
Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, and H.R.H. The Prince of Wales are among the latest delegates to confirm their participation in the Virtual...
By Ange de la Victoire DUSABEMUNGU 270 needy families from Huye, Nyanza and Nyamagabe districts were provided with goats...
IFAD’s new investment programme to boost private funding of rural businesses and small-scale farmers
ROME, Italy, July 14, 2021/ -- Rural businesses, which are so vital for transforming our food systems, will get a...
