African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Food $100m to and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) have agreed to commit $100 million to fight hunger in Africa. The joint...
The Nigeria Incentive Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) says it is developing a transportation system to address bottlenecks in the movement of agricultural...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed its desire to increase the flow of credit to the real sector of the economy, in order to...
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From an app to diagnose disease on Zambian farms to Tinder-style matchmaking for Senegalese land owners and young farmers, young coders have...
The Feed the Future, a U.S. government global hunger and food security initiative, has earmarked 12.5 million dollars for food security in Nigeria. Dr George Mavrotas, Head...
Chief Audu Ogbeh, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, has appealed to commercial banks to reduce their lending rates to farmers to spur the development of...
Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that the deepening of partnership with the World Bank in agricultural development would usher the state into a...
In an effort to protect local production, Tanzania has placed a blanket ban on the importation of carrots from Kenya. The ban has aggravated the cross-border...
No fewer than 33,974 rice farmers in Zamfara state are to benefit from the Anchor Borrowers loan of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The Rice...
African Development Bank AfDB said it has initiated a $40 million project to develop agriculture in Nigeria and 26 other African countries. Dr Adeniyi Adediran, the...
Two years after he performed the ground-breaking for the 274-kilometre superhighway of Cross River state, President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commissioned the state’s Rice Seedling Factory...
A Nigerian company, Dalisatech Limited, has produced a machine that automates garri production, from cassava peeling to frying into the end product, a popular staple in the...
Renaissance Capital, a leading emerging and frontier markets investment bank, has initiated coverage on the shares of Nigeria’s staple food producers: Flour Mills of Nigeria, Dangote...
The Nigerian Government says it will shut the land border between it and a neigbouring country in a few days time to avoid smuggling of foreign...
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has estimated that remittances sent to developing countries could cross 6.5 trillion dollars between 2015 and 2030, involving over one...