How climate change inflames extremist insurgency in Africa

Declining harvests and dwindling fish hauls make Boko Haram appealing for young men in the Lake Chad region.

Promised land: how South Africa’s black farmers were set up to fail

The long read: After apartheid, when black people were given back their land, many felt driven to prove they could farm as well as white South Africans. But even before they had begun, the system was stacked against them

Farming in South Africa is being hobbled by power cuts and poor roads. Rural towns are being hit hardest

South Africa's agriculture could do even better but is held back by power cuts and poor infrastructure...

This African Nation’s Surprise Plan for Farming Through Climate Disaster

Climate change is poised to wreck our ability to grow many kinds of crops. But there’s one farming staple that could weather the crisis: dairy.

India may ship 290,000 tonnes of broken rice to Mali

The development comes amid demand from African countries that look to India for supply of fully broken white rice, other than parboiled rice.

The Interlocking Challenges of Climate Change and Poverty | The Development Podcast

How do we address climate change, reduce poverty, and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet? Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time, and no country is immune. On this episode of The Development Podcast, we hone in on voices across Africa about the experience of climate change and how it intersects with poverty, and we hear from the World Bank’s Chief Economist for Sustainable Development in Washington, DC. Tune in as we speak with Cathy Kamamu, a farmer from Kenya, Professor Denis Aheto, Director of Coastal Ecology at the World Bank-funded Africa Center of Excellence on Coastal Resilience, Roselyn Fosua Adjei, Director of Climate Change for the Ghana Forestry Commission, and Richard Damania, Chief Economist for Sustainable Development at the World Bank. Listen now!

Putting Africans at the Heart of Food Security and Climate Resilience

As the impacts of climate change continue to intensify and global shocks upend business as usual, Sub-Saharan Africa is feeling the brunt of what has been coined “the perfect storm” – a food, fuel, and fertilizer crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, scarring effects from the COVID-19 pandemic, soaring inflation, rising debt, and extreme weather.

InfoPoint conference: One Planet Fellowship Programme – Boosting Africa-Europe scientific collaboration on climate change and agriculture in Africa

The InfoPoint session aims to present the various components of the initiative and showcase some early results regarding the activities organized around the 3 cohorts of the programme.

APNI Renews Commitment Towards Africa’s Agricultural Revolution

The African Plant Nutrition Institute (APNI) has renewed its commitment to helping Africa’s agriculture and tackling food security issues in its latest annual report “Towards transformation,” released in June 2023.

Uganda in partnership with FAO, China launches high-yielding climate smart rice to up farmers’ production