Agriculture and food: Africa's economic engine

Agriculture is a sector that employs 290 million Africans and will be worth a trillion US dollars by 2030. And it is growing faster in Africa than on any other continent. SPECIAL FEATURE | BIRD AGENCY | Africa is leveraging its huge small-scale farming community to grow its agrifood sector and provide additional jobs for a …

Transforming food systems through Global Field ID - a new standard for agriculture?

The new digital farming tool 'Global Field ID' maps field boundaries with technology and assigns unique IDs to each plot of land

Microsoft to help farmers in Africa achieve food security

3 strategies that can future-proof the global food system

As agriculture is one of the least digitized industries, mass digitization is crucial for reversing the vulnerabilities faced by the global food system.

20 years ago, Zambia 'shocked the world' by rejecting free corn to feed its starving population, claiming safety concerns because it was genetically modified. That freeze is thawing.

In 2002, President Levy Mwanawasa shocked the world when he declined to receive GMO maize from the United States of America at the height of Zambia’s worst droughts.

New media hoax: Millions to starve with a pandemic benefit ending

Tens of millions of Americans are being slammed by the soaring price of food — one of Biden’s worst legacies. We can have sympathy for hungry individuals without perpetuating the excesses of a...

Why smallholder farmers are key to both African and global food security

Global agriculture is at a crossroads. The planet is home to 8 billion people, a total which the UN predicts will rise to 10 billion by 2050. At the same time global food insecurity is rising due to…

North Korea’s food shortage is about to take a deadly turn for the worse, experts say - WTOP News

Concerns about North Korea’s chronic food shortages are growing, with multiple sources suggesting this week that deaths due to starvation are likely.

N Korea holds meeting on farming amid fears of food shortages

Rare meeting dedicated to agriculture comes amid outside assessments of a food crisis in North Korea.

HBCU helping more families access quality food

A college is tackling food insecurity on its campus