AGRA has announced a partnership with Aceli Africa to enhance capital flows to SMEs in the agriculture sector and support a financially inclusive agricultural transformation across Africa. AGRA and Aceli have signed a letter of intent committing to jointly work together to test and scale up innovations that substantially drive down the cost and risk of financing SMEs in…
LILONGWE, April 03, 2021: – The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), H.E. Hailemariam Dessalegn, former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, today (April 03, 2021) held a meeting with the President of the Republic of Malawi, Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, during which he updated the President on AGRA’s successful engagement and…
Kigali, 14 April 2021: The Pan-African Farmers Organization (PAFO) and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) have signed a cooperation and partnership agreement to strengthen the capacities of African farmers’ organizations to ensure that they provide effective services to smallholder farmers, especially women and youth. The agreement will see AGRA supporting Farmers’ Organizations to drive policy advocacy…
In June 2006, the AU member states adopted the “Abuja Declaration on Fertilizer for the African Green Revolution” and resolved to increase fertilizer consumption rates across the continent from 8 kilograms per hectare to 50 kilograms per hectare by 2015, a target whose deadline has been surpassed. In Tanzania, fertilizer usage stands at 13.68 kg/ha of fertilizer use, falling…
Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam) By Yasinta Amos in Arusha More than 100,600 smallholder farmers in Tanzania will be receiving grain and vegetable seeds’ grants worth US$ 493,500 to assist them in sustainable food production. Through its new “Better Farms, Better Lives” initiative, Bayer, a life-science oriented multinational company will run the programme for the next 12 months, starting this…
By Edwin Githinji E-mail: eddy.githinji022@gmail.com 23/11/2020 Kenya recognizes the urgent need for the protection of water sources, resources and the implementation of alternative production of aquatic proteins. Kenya’s Principal Secretary State Department for Fisheries, Aquaculture and the Blue economies, Prof. Japhet Micheni Ntiba, made the statement in commemoration of World Fisheries Day. On the 20th day of November each…
Agriculture CS Hon Peter Munya has concluded a three-day public participation meeting on Coffee Bill 2020 at Nyamathumbi Primary School, Gatundu North Constituency in Kiambu County. He was joined by the area MP Hon. Wanjiku Kibe and Secretary Administration Mr. Kello Harsama. Farmers from three sub-counties: Gatundu North Githunguri and Gatundu North, have embraced the reforms which they say…
By Edwin Githinji email: eddy.githinji022@gmail.com On the 5th of December every year, the world comes together in celebration of the world soil day, a day set apart to acknowledge and celebrate the importance of soil as a critical component of the natural system, and a vital contributor to human well-being. On celebrating this day, the theme and campaign is…
By Edwin Githinji E-mail: eddy.githinji022@gmail.com Worldwide, 1.3 billion of all the food produced for human consumption is lost, spoiled, or wasted. This observation is more vivid in developing countries, where the storage facilities are made of straw and wood. This makes the harvest vulnerable to rain, infestation by rodents and insects, and insufficient cooling for temperature sensitive produce, an…
___________________ *Flagship to mobilize agro-industrialization investments Dodoma: The East African Community (EAC) food powerhouse, Tanzania has made a bold move expected to greatly accelerate agro-industry based inclusive economic growth, characterized by agro-processing for domestic and export markets. The new catalyst high impact initiative, Tanzania Agro-industries Development Flagship (TAIDF), has been put in place to augment and catalyze earlier and…