In Africa, where the vast majority of farmers are smallholders (on average cultivating about 5 acres according to a 2018 estimate by the OECD), it makes sense for such farmers to combine their forces ...

The South African government makes a great deal of the fact that it supports women's empowerment in agriculture.But does it?As an anthropologist, I've been engaged in long-term ethnographic research ...

The Preservation Board will be reviewing plans for the African Heritage Food Co-Op Market & Internet Café at its meeting today. Plans call for renovating and expanding an existing 3,838 sq.ft historic ...

The African Heritage Food Cooperative (AHFC) is planning to open a Buffalo location at 238 Carlton Street next year. We’re now getting a look at what the new facility will look like. The co-op will ...

Last week the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) turned global. Some 10,000 people from around the world, three times the normal attendance, watched and participated. There were several hundred ...

The policy is designed to harness the potential of cooperatives to drive sustainable economic growth while tackling pressing challenges such as food insecurity, malnutrition, and migration.

Three African youth-led Agritech businesses— Kenya’s DigiCow, Botswana’s Brastorne Enterprises and Nigeria’s ThriveAgric— will receive mentorship and $1.5 million in grants to help them to ...

Daniel Danino is the CEO and founder of Volta Metals, an international group focused on energy, agriculture and commodities in EMEA. Africa, rich in natural resources, is often described as the ...

Potential, backed by enabling policies, a conducive business environment, and innovative technologies, is what creates harvests, nutritious food on the table, and wealth across agriculture’s vast ...

African agriculture has the potential to advance up to 50% of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), yet the sector remains severely underfunded, according to a new report by Boston ...