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Empowering community development through sustainable agriculture

By Devex Partnerships // 27 March 2025. Original article: https://www.devex.com/news/sponsored/empowering-community-development-through-sustainable-agriculture-109689 How do you know you’re having an impact when there are 9 billion people to feed? Ben Pratt, president of the Mosaic Company

June 4, 2025 No Comments

Agri News

Zimbabwe Targets 340% Surge in Crop Production as Government Strengthens Food Security Measures

Aldridge; February 13, 2025; https://positiveeyenews.co.zw/2025/02/13/zimbabwe-targets-340-surge-in-crop-production-as-government-strengthens-food-security-measures/ Zimbabwe’s food security prospects have received a significant boost, with the government targeting a 340% increase in major crop production for the 2024/2025 summer season,

April 22, 2025 No Comments

Agri News

Farmers must be front of the line for climate compensation after COP29. Here’s why

Aditi Mukherji Director, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Action Platform, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Direct link: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/11/cop29-agriculture-loss-damage-fund// After the last UN climate talks in Dubai were dubbed

April 22, 2025 No Comments

Agriculture

How Syntropic Agriculture Restores Soil and Farms

April 7, 2025 By Gabriella Soto-Velez, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist There are many different terms for the practices that incorporate trees into agricultural production: agroforestry, intercropping, permaculture, food forests, and now

April 18, 2025 No Comments

Agri News

SUISO’s R31.5b fertiliser project set to shake up agriculture

SUISO has unveiled a groundbreaking $1.7 billion coal-to-fertiliser facility in Kriel, Mpumalanga, to enhance food security in sub-Saharan Africa. The plant will produce 1.5 million tonnes of fertiliser annually, reducing

March 5, 2025 No Comments

Agri News

Scientists discover genetic blueprint that could revolutionize global food production: ‘More productive and resilient crops for the future’

“Answering this question is a huge step toward understanding how we can make the most robust and productive crops possible.” To harness the power of the sun and make sugars

January 10, 2025 No Comments

Agri News

Why a dairy farm turned to producing pineapples

By Mike Burgess In 2019, dairy farmer Jonathan Willows and his business partner, Laine Collett, launched a pineapple operation on a dairy farm in the Eastern Cape. They spoke to

December 10, 2024 No Comments

Agri News

The role of carbon credits in Africa’s transition to clean cooking

JOHANNESBURG – Africa, a continent blessed with abundant natural resources, is also home to a significant portion of the world’s population reliant on traditional cooking methods. According to the International

December 10, 2024 No Comments

Agri News

Agriculture has huge potential for reducing poverty

Growth in agriculture is in general two to three times more effective at reducing poverty than an equivalent amount of growth generated outside agriculture. This was according to Wandile Sihlobo,

December 10, 2024 No Comments

Agri News

Smallholder farmers, the unsung heroes of agriculture, are helping to secure South Africa’s food future

As South Africa looks to a future threatened by climate change and rising food insecurity, the role of small-scale farmers becomes even more critical. These farmers are not just growing

December 10, 2024 No Comments