Read full article by Shabibah Nakirigya@ Monitor Photo Credit: Shabibah Nakirigya The National Agricultural Research Organisation (Naro) has pledged to support the different government institutions involved in large scale food production as an intervention to curb the...
Read full article By Ruth SChuster@ HAARETZ Photo Credit: Queensland Country Life Not only were the Mesopotamians growing millet, a thirsty summer crop, before the Neo-Assyrians introduced irrigation: They were early adopters of multi-cropping at least 3,500 years...
Read full article by Tatenda Chitagu@ Mogabay Photo Credit: Tatenda Chitagu. Farmers in southern Zimbabwe are shifting back to growing traditional small grains and maize after experiencing food shortages from the failure of their hybrid maize crops, which haven’t...
Read full articvle by Busani Bafana@Alliance for Science Photo Credit: Alliancefor Science` A ripe sorghum field in Zimbabwe. Photo: Busani Bafana “Africa needs agricultural systems that draw on people’s knowledge and benefit our health, culture, social justice and...
Read full article By Relief Web @Reliefwenb Photo Credit: ICRISAT High-yieldng, downy mildew-resistant and suitable for food and fodder. Developed by ICRISAT and evaluated by INERA Burkina Faso 1 June, 2021: Burkina Faso recently approved the commercial use of its...
