Desert Locusts Invasion Cause Panic In Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro Region
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — At first glance, Hilder Tarimo, a local farmer in a sleepy Ngai Nairobi village in Tanzania’s Siha district, thought the dark dense blot darkening...
Zimbabwe Farmers Embrace Conservation Agriculture To Beat Effects Of Climate Change
Marange, Zimbabwe — It is a windy day in Marange, Chanakira village. Small clouds scuddle the blue sky giving it a blurred look. About 110 kilometers southwest of Mutare, Norah...
Researchers Tout Healthy Food Recipes To Boost Nutrition, Cut Costs In Tanzania’s Schools
MANYARA — The tolling of the afternoon bell marks the end of lessons at Babati Day Secondary School in Tanzania’s northern Manyara region.
It ushers in a moment of joy...
Kenyans Stare At Hunger As Birds Destroy Rice
Kisumu, June 1 — At midday in the West Kano irrigation scheme in Kenya’s Nyando Sub-county of Kisumu County, Erick Otieno has just received his lunch from his employer...
Tea farmers in Kenya find reprieve as international market opens up for their produce.
Kericho, April 20 — On a fine Monday morning, and as the sun beats down on the tea farms in Kaptoroi village in Kenya’s Kericho County, Sarah Keter plucks...
Fish traders in Kenya’s lakeside city of Kisumu enjoy an economic boom amid Coronavirus
Kisumu, April 8 — At 7 am in the morning, fishermen are docking in their fishing boats on the Dunga Beach in Kisumu’s Lake Victoria shores in western Kenya....
Could tree regeneration hold out hope for Africa’s vulnerable smallholder farmers?
Homa Bay, Kenya MARCH 4, 2020 — With more than half of the estimated 2.2 billion people to be added to the global population by 2050 expected to be...