The Eastern Cape agriculture department has handed a R1.4 million shed with a dipping tank to 48 communal wool farmers at Ngonyama Village, along with 10 Dohne Merino rams.
EnvironmentAn Economic and Political Weekly paper by Sandeep Kaur of the Central University of Punjab finds large farmers with deeper borewells earn higher returns while small and marginal farmers watch shallow wells run dry and buy water from neighbours.
AgrotechLiteWeed pairs a 4-watt blue diode laser with on-board YOLOX-nano vision on a Raspberry Pi 5, and is aimed at spot treatment on small plots rather than broadacre fields.
CropsIn Whole Earth Farming, Smallholder Farmers Alliance co-founder Hugh Locke argues that moving about 240 million of the Global South's 475 million small farms to regenerative agriculture and agroforestry could supply all the extra food needed by 2050 while restoring soils and drawing down up to 0.72
An ADB technical note on Heifer International's work finds that under 10 per cent of global climate finance reaches local level and only about 5 per cent of extension services effectively reach women; in Bangladesh 101 women-led cooperatives now link 133,034 smallholders to finance, insurance and ma
An independent evaluation of the California Farm to School Incubator Grant Program finds each dollar granted to farmers generates about $2.10 in statewide economic activity, with three-quarters of participating farms expanding production to supply schools.
The company is working with a team in the region on an app built around local crops, disease threats, practices and languages, delivering continuously updated disease-risk alerts and field-level guidance to farmers who rarely have early-warning tools.
Formalised in Kigali on 4 September as the Africa Food Systems Forum closed, the partnerships target three traps named in AGRA's Impact, Learning and Foresight Report, productivity, value and capability, through farmer-centred transformation, a strengthened Knowledge Hub and investable pathways fo
With the average farmer worldwide about 58 years old, PepsiCo's social impact chief Monica Bauer describes the company's regional programmes, Future Harvest in Europe, Field to Future in the US, the Kgodiso fund in South Africa and Agrovita in Mexico, and the three barriers young farmers face ever
The Kenya Meteorological Service Authority, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and the AIM4Scale partnership have launched a pilot to turn new rainy-season onset and six-week forecasts into planting advice ahead of the 2026 short rains.
AgribusinessIn July 2026 the World Bank described how a young graduate running a Better Life Farming centre in Saidpur, Nilphamari, serves more than 500 farmers across five villages, part of a plan to train over 1,000 agri-entrepreneurs in Bangladesh.
The six-year AGROW project is expected to reach up to a million smallholder farmers and to draw an additional $220 million from private agribusiness investment.
