A week among farmers from 17 nations in São Paulo yielded a lesson that transcends soil and seed: Africa must tell its own agricultural story -...
After a strong 2025, sub-Saharan Africa’s stabilization gains face fresh threats from Middle East conflict, rising commodity prices, and retreating foreign aid.
A quiet revolution in cooling infrastructure is underway in the heart of Africa - and the world should be paying attention.
The Emirates are quietly turning the continent’s most fertile soil into a foreign pantry - and Africa’s leaders are "muted."
The continent's agricultural crises are not accidents of nature. They are the predictable consequences of certainty without evidence.
By Balbir Singh There is a question that haunts every serious observer of international development: with billions of dollars flowing into agricultural programs across Africa and...
The continent has frameworks. What it still lacks is the resilience to survive the next shock.
By Victory Azimih The next global crisis will not originate in financial markets. It will begin in the world’s food systems. Nations that cannot feed themselves...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo The dazzling machines on display in Kentucky made one thing clear: the real frontier of agricultural AI is not in the field...
By Balbir Singh International development organizations are pushing outdated agricultural models that ignore ground realities and perpetuate poverty. A recent high-level meeting with delegates from international...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo Imagine explaining artificial intelligence to a four-year-old child in rural Africa. You wouldn’t begin with algorithms or machine learning models. Instead, you...
By Gregory September Nineteen African countries now operate satellites in Earth’s orbit. This transformation happened without slogans, without international fanfare, without the breathless coverage reserved for...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo Every algorithm powering precision agriculture. Every autonomous drone mapping field boundaries. Every self-navigating tractor optimizing fuel consumption. None of them materialized overnight....
By Ziad Hamoui Official trade statistics capture barely a sixth of West Africa’s actual regional food trade. This massive data gap is undermining food security and...
By Juwon Akin-Olotu Walk into any international development conference in Europe or the United States, and you will encounter the same carefully curated imagery projected onto...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo A few days ago, on a farm in Nebraska, I watched a revelation unfold. A farmer demonstrated his tractor – a sophisticated...
By Ajay Wasserman The world came to Africa in 2025 – but not everyone showed up. That, however, turned out to be beside the point. While...
By Balbir Singh At global forums – from Davos to Addis Ababa – policymakers and development advisors repeat a familiar mantra: Africa must industrialize and boost...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo Africa stands at a pivotal crossroads. With a rapidly growing population, climate volatility, and persistent post-harvest losses, the continent’s food systems are...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo For generations, African farmers have fed nations with little more than hand hoes, resilience, and deep agrarian knowledge. They have sustained food...
By John Dale Aliko Dangote is Africa’s largest real estate player. Yet no one calls him a real estate mogul. Why? Because he doesn’t flip plots...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo Africa spends over US$35 billion annually importing food – much of it crops that could thrive on its own soil. This staggering...
By Ziad Hamoui In Accra last week, the ECOWAS Commission launched the US$10 million West Africa Livestock Marketing Support Programme (PACBAO-2) – a bold, long-term initiative...
By Danilo Desiderio In the decades since the 1994 genocide, Rwanda has emerged as one of Africa’s most compelling development success stories. From the ashes of...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo In our modern world, we rarely think about where our next meal will come from – until something goes wrong. Yet here’s...
By Curtis Akunfu By 2050, the world’s population is expected to surpass 9.7 billion – with two-thirds living in cities. This unprecedented demographic shift places immense...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo When most people think of maize – commonly known as corn – in Africa, they picture a golden cob on a plate,...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo Sub-Saharan Africa is home to one of the fastest-growing populations on Earth. By 2050, the region’s population is projected to surpass 2.1...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo To build a food-secure future, the world must harness the energy, creativity, and innovation of young people – in science, research, and...
Guyana Chronicle | President Dr. Irfaan Ali has announced that Guyana is ahead of its regional goal to reduce the food import bill by 25% by...
By Danilo Desiderio The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently released the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024...
By Mary Alorh Africa’s food security remains a significant developmental challenge, with food inflation continuing to rise and exacerbating hunger and poverty across the continent. In...
By Godfred Zina The military junta in Burkina Faso has faced criticism regarding issues of democracy, freedom of speech, violence, and authoritarian governance. However, it is...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Africa is home to numerous lakes spread across the continent, many of which are naturally formed, along with some significant artificial lakes....
By Gregory Simpkins As I have written about previously, as many as four billion people globally experience water shortages for at least one month a year,...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Years ago, I read a report highlighting how South Korea’s economy experienced significant growth through infrastructure development, contributing about 3 percent to...
By Mary Alorh As African countries navigate the post-COVID period, they face significant economic challenges, including rising inflation and increasing consumer prices. Globally, economic downturns have...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Eleven months ago, I wrote about Africa’s food crisis, suggesting it was more severe than it appeared. As expected, there were differing...
By Ryan Elcock The Caribbean has long grappled with the dual challenge of high dependence on imported food and limited agricultural self-sufficiency. This predicament is particularly...
BBC | Ethiopian-born scientist Gebisa Ejeta has received the National Medal of Science, the highest state honor attainable by scientists in the United States. US President...
The Exchange Africa| The EU insists that food and fertilizer are not part of the sanctions it has imposed on Russia due to the ongoing conflict...
By Jukka Pirttilä, Mari Kangasniemi and Partners Over half of Zambia’s population lived below the national poverty line in 2015. In rural areas, where 89 percent...
Increase in staple grain imports in various African countries, combined with slightly better domestic grain production conditions in some, has slightly shielded the region
Kenya is committed to ensuring food security, creating jobs, flood control and water harvesting. Previously agriculture has been an underfunded sector when compared to education and...
American farmers are looking to do business in Gambia. And recently, a delegation of American farmers traveled to Banjul to facilitate the process of investing in...
Sanoussi Diakité (pictured), a Senegalese entrepreneur is tackling food security in West Africa. Diakité has invented a machine that processes cereal in a fraction of the...
