Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 43, No. 148, SPECIAL ISSUE: AFRICA AND THE DRUGS TRADE REVISITED (June 2016), pp. 277-293 (17 pages) Over the past decade, African agriculture sectors have ...

Anyone walking through Prashant Thakare’s freshly planted cotton field in the central Indian village of Takarakhede Shambhu could easily mistake a 65-ft.-wide (20 m) pool of murky water for, well, a ...

Des Moines, Iowa, and Accra, Ghana, are 6,000 miles from each other. This distance was bridged in recent weeks when these very different cities, in very different parts of the world, hosted two ...

DAWSON — There’s a quiet revolution taking place in agriculture, although you can’t really see it in the fields around just yet. Listen for it instead in the kitchen, where it’s no louder than the ...

Virginia Tech students and professors gathered to hear Glenn Davis Stone, a professor at Washington and Lee University, give a lecture on agricultural theories and practices earlier this month. Stone ...

Modern supercrops will be a big help. But agriculture can’t be fixed by biotech alone. Something is killing Ramadhani Juma’s cassava crop. “Maybe it’s too much water,” he says, fingering clusters of ...

Nairobi, Kenya, September 2020 – Microsoft, through its 4Afrika initiative, has announced its partnership with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to co-create technology solutions in ...

Agriculture has always been a race against time. Every year the world’s population grows, and every year the world’s farmers strive to feed 83 million extra mouths. Though we’ve normalized it, that’s ...

New research shows that since modern crop varieties were introduced in the developing world starting in 1961, they have substantially reduced infant mortality, especially for male babies and among ...

SABA SABA, Kenya, May 2 (AlertNet) - Her bare feet coated with mud, Sabena Gitau trudged down the rain-sodden hillside to her banana plantation, machete in hand. She chose and cut several giant ...