58,500 smallholders in Ghana, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia will benefit from outgrower programmes backed by AgDevCo's Smallholder Development Unit (SDU), with farmer incomes set to collectively increase ...
A potent brew of untapped opportunity and climate injustice is putting smallholder farmers of the world in a bind. These farmers, who typically farm on just one to five acres of land and number 50 ...
Going Green is a series of special programs that air on CNN International reporting on some of the world’s most pressing environmental issues. n July watch “Earth,” a half-hour feature program with ...
A review of the CABI-led Pest Risk Information Service shows that smallholder farmers in four African countries benefited from reduced crop losses and higher incomes after pest alerts received using ...
Over 80 percent of Malawi's population depends on rain-fed smallholder farming. When rains fail or come unpredictably, entire communities face food shortages and income loss. The 2023-2024 farming ...
Brendan Brown receives PhD funding from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) of Australia and the International Maize and Wheat Research Institute (CIMMYT). Ian ...
Across most of Africa, rural communities grow their own food, relying on smallholder agriculture. But climate change is threatening this way of life. Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall and degraded ...
Three University of Sussex students have launched a technology programme in Malawi to help tackle agricultural challenges through artificial intelligence and low-cost electronics. Led by PhD student ...
LILONGWE, Malawi (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Elias Kanyangale is ecstatic about his maize harvest. Balancing on a homemade ladder, the farmer retrieves cobs from a full granary, the bounty of this ...