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The Power of Mobile: Saving Uganda’s Banana Crop

Bananas constitute 70% of the family food basket in Uganda. Through my work on the Uganda Agricultural Technology and Agribusiness Advisory (ATAAS) project,...

Bioscience should underpin African agriculture, meeting hears

Harnessing bio-science can drive socioeconomic transformation and boost food security in Africa, agricultural innovators say. Go to Source Similar Products:...

Nigeria: Cross River to Sign Biotech Agreement for Agriculture

[Daily Trust]Calabar -Cross River State government will now emphasise more on the application of biotechnology for agricultural production to enable greater...

Future of water demands innovation and conservation

With water stresses already at high levels in many parts of the world and not expected to ease in 2013, a number of innovators are trying new technologies...

Agricultural, health education goes global via cellphone animations

CHAMPAIGN, lll. — They’re watching them in Benin, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, India and Niger. They’re learning how to stop the spread...

Is Africa ready to climb the value chain in agriculture?

Ellen Olafsen Five hundred million. That’s the official estimate, the number that practitioners arrive at from a range of 200 to 900 million. That is the number of smallholder farmers in the world, and it makes a lot of eyes pop in development circles. Take for example the most recent agribusiness value-chain event, Making the Connection: value chains for transforming...

Will better farm tech produce more food?

Interesting question: does this video of smart agricultural technology from John Deere promise an exciting, more productive, less backbreaking future for farming? Or, as Kay McDonald, an agricultural researcher, suggests in her blog Big Picture Agriculture, does it conjure up images of a “cold, dark, soulless” and dystopian food production future with no room for small...