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Underwriting Africa’s future through Agriculture
Posted on :Thursday , 29th September 2016
It is now widely recognized by experts and policy makers that agriculture will underwrite Africa’s promising growth prospects; that the dream of Africa rising can actually fly on the wings of the sector’s vast untapped potential across the continent.
With 60 per cent of the world’s uncultivated arable land and low crop yields, the prediction . . .Africa: At Last, Evidence That African Agriculture Is Powering Economic Transformation
Posted on :Monday , 26th September 2016
The evidence is now in and the verdict is that Africa´s agriculture is powering economic transformation in the region. African agriculture has shown remarkable improvement compared to its precarious state 15 years ago.
However, progress is uneven across the region. Governments that have invested in their agricultural sectors, such as in Ethiopia, Rwanda . . .State drafts new regulation to rev up ailing sugar industry
Posted on :Friday , 23rd September 2016
The government is drafting a sugar regulation to bring sanity to the industry in the wake of poor local production, which has given cartels room to manipulate the market.
Agriculture Principal secretary Richard Lesiyampe said there was a sugar regulation in 2001 but to date, it has never been gazetted.This has left the industry . . .Kenya Seeks Chinese Investment to Develop Agro-Chemicals Industry
Posted on :Thursday , 22nd September 2016
Nairobi — Kenya has created a friendly policy and environment to attract Chinese investment in the agro-chemicals market, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Willy Bett, said the next phase of Sino-Kenya agricultural cooperation will focus on development of a robust fertilizer and pesticide manuf. . .Rwanda: Experts Call for Sustainable Agriculture Interventions
Posted on :Thursday , 22nd September 2016
Agriculture can greatly contribute toward the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that seek to end poverty, hunger, inequality and injustice as well as tackle climate change, experts said, calling for more governments' intervention.
The experts were speaking on Monday during a Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) regional workshop under . . .Please Select an Option
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