All Africa articles – Page 100
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ArticleCompagnie Fruitière launches promotion
A new marketing drive is being planned by the French group to highlight the quality of its exotic range from Africa
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ArticleAgroecology the way forward
According to the UN's Special Rapporteur on the right to food, conventional farming is no longer the best option
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ArticleCirad begins training initiative
The French research centre is set to start a new training programme for EDES, whose aim is to enhance food safety in ACP exports
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ArticleAfrica needs consumption boost
The health of Africans is severely under threat from an underconsumption of fruit and vegetables, say scientists in Senegal
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Kenya to develop export links
Kenya is developing infrastructure and looking to new markets to prevent oversupply of vegetables to Europe and a devaluation of produce.
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Kenya holds up benchmarking blueprint
Kenya’s benchmarked certification system could become the blueprint to benefit the whole of Africa, GlobalGAP smallholders ambassador Stephen Mbithi has forecast.
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ArticleRwanda eyes EU and US banana markets
African country is looking to boost banana production to meet demand in Europe and the US
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UK farmers boost African production
Food security in Western Kenya has been given a massive boost after fundraising from the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and the rest of the agriculture industry.
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Worldwatch examines food waste
Independent research organisation the Worldwatch Institute is running a project funded by the Bill & Melissa Gates Foundation dubbed Nourishing the Planet which aims to find sustainable solution to reduce global hunger and rural poverty including tackling food waste in the developed and developing world.
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ArticleBidding begins on African trade initiatives
The Food Retail Industry Challenge Fund (FRICH) has opened a third bidding round for UK companies to put forward innovative projects which promote trade to some of the poorest countries north of South Africa and south of the Sahara.
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Sainsbury's to up spending in Africa
The UK retailer plans to boost its expenditure in Africa, as it continues to increase its Fairtrade offering
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Africa's green revolution
Namanga Ngongi, an agronomist from Cameroon, believes that Africa may be embarking on a second green revolution
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ArticleNew venture to benefit African growers
Macfrut leads new Italian consortium aimed at encouraging technological development in sub-Saharan Africa
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ArticleKenyan flights underway
Kenya airlifted 300 tonnes of fruit and vegetables in three flights to the south of Spain last night.
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Africa and UK link up over food security
Major moves to bolster food security in the UK and Africa are speeding up, following an initiative from the Warwickshire-based International Agri-Technology Centre (IATC).
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ArticleAAA Growers invests in herbs
Kenyan exporter AAA Growers has plans to diversify into fresh herbs and is set to have product commercially available by May.
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West African agriculture juries meet
Farmers from Mali, Benin, Senegal and Burkina Faso will have their say on the future of food and agriculture research during two forthcoming citizens’ juries in Mali.
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ArticleNFU begins Africa cassava project
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and FARM-Africa have chosen a fledging cassava project to receive cash from the Africa 100 Appeal.
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Capespan Namibia is formed
The Capespan Group has concluded a 10-year marketing and management agreement with the National Youth Service (NYS) to manage the Namibia Grape Company (NGC), as part of a skills transfer process.
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Africa 100 appeals gets backing
Funds continue to roll in for the Africa 100 appeal, which has received a welcome boost from international food group VION.