Nearly two decades after African governments pledged to dramatically increase fertilizer use under the landmark Abuja Declaration, the continent continues to lag far behind global agricultural regions in soil nutrient…
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Kenya has taken a significant step toward overhauling its national weather and climate monitoring infrastructure after the Kenya Meteorological Service Authority signed a Statement of Intent with Meteo France International…
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Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote has signalled plans to develop a major oil refinery in East Africa, potentially replicating the scale of his flagship Lekki refinery in Nigeria, as African governments…
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Israel has deployed Africa’s first mobile climate laboratory in Kenya in a move aimed at strengthening climate data collection, improving environmental modelling and supporting evidence-based policymaking across the continent as…
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Deep in the Chalbi Desert of northern Kenya, the village of Kargi has lived under a slow-moving catastrophe for decades. Residents describe cancer as the leading cause of death in a community…
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Côte d’Ivoire has launched a five-year, US$33 million fisheries and aquaculture development programme aimed at reversing declining domestic fish production, strengthening food security and reducing the country’s growing dependence on…
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Egypt has introduced a temporary export tax on nitrogen fertilizers as governments increasingly move to protect domestic agricultural inputs amid rising global prices and mounting supply chain disruptions linked to…
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A European Union-backed agricultural programme in Zambia’s Eastern Province is accelerating the transition from subsistence farming toward climate-resilient agribusiness systems, as more than 54,000 smallholder farmers adopt sustainable farming practices aimed at…
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Kenya and Tanzania have agreed to conduct a joint feasibility study for a natural gas pipeline linking Dar es Salaam and Mombasa, while formally launching cross-border electricity trade in a…
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Africa’s agricultural future may depend less on expanding farmland and more on restoring the soil beneath it, as policymakers, agribusinesses and development institutions increasingly recognise degraded soils as a structural…
