Input value chain/ East-Southern Africa - ACTESA and AFAP collaborate for a joint fertilizer program The Alliance for Commodity Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa (ACTESA) in collaboration with the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership... 17/01/2016
Input value chain/Tanzania - Firm makes bags that kill pests A Tanzanian agricultural company has launched a reusable grain storage technology which will help farmers protect their crops from high insect infe... 10/01/2016
Market information System/Uganda - National Bureau of Standards adopts E-tag system to check fake farm inputs Uganda has tightened the fight against counterfeit and substandard agricultural inputs like seeds, fertilizers, chemicals among other items floodin... 10/01/2016
Input value chain/Senegal - New partnership to strengthen the private seed and agricultural inputs sector Action for Enterprise (AFE), Argidius Foundation and Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), have partnered for a new initiative to make... 10/01/2016
Input value chain/Malawi - Government to align its Seed Regulations to COMESA System Malawi is planning to align its seed regulations with the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) Seed Harmonization Implementation Pla... 14/12/2015
Input value chain/Zambia - Expedite e-voucher system, PMRC urged Government The Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) has urged Zambian government to accelerate the implementation of the electronic voucher system in... 24/11/2015
Value chain Finance/ Rwanda – Credit institutions move to boost agriculture sector The Annual Agriculture Finance Conference held in Kigali brought together more than 200 financial experts, bankers and development partners to disc... 08/11/2015
Market Technologies/Nigeria – AfDB says new technologies transforms Africa’s agricultural sector According to the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), African farmers are effectively using mobile telephone technology to eliminate middl... 08/11/2015
Host Countries of EAAP request for Extension Four countries which benefited from the first phase of the funded Eastern Africa Agricultural Productivity Project (EAAPP) have appealed to the Wor... 08/11/2015
What do we know about the impact of climate change on Livestock Systems in Africa? A 2015 report by the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS) of CGIAR has alarmingly revealed that the despite evide... 19/10/2015