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Ivory Coast farmers hope for more rain, sunshine to boost cocoa crop growth

Soil moisture is helping the April-to-September mid-crop to develop across most of Ivory Coast’s main cocoa growing regions, farmers said, adding that they hoped...

Farmers call for help to mitigate drought effects

Farmers in Zimbabwe are appealing for funds to irrigate their land, in hopes of fending off a possible drought predicted by the U.N. Food...

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Ivory Coast farmers hope for more rain, sunshine to boost cocoa crop growth

Soil moisture is helping the April-to-September mid-crop to develop across most of Ivory Coast’s main cocoa growing regions, farmers said, adding that they hoped...

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Ivory Coast farmers hope for more rain, sunshine to boost cocoa crop growth

Soil moisture is helping the April-to-September mid-crop to develop across most of Ivory Coast’s main cocoa growing regions, farmers said, adding that they hoped...

Smart farming analysis reveals hidden trade-offs in Morocco’s olive boom

A team of researchers has developed an innovative decision-support framework designed to help land managers and policymakers navigate the complex trade-offs in agricultural planning,...

Farmers call for help to mitigate drought effects

Farmers in Zimbabwe are appealing for funds to irrigate their land, in hopes of fending off a possible drought predicted by the U.N. Food...
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Climate change and Southern African drought

Many experts believe that climate change will affect more to the northern hemisphere of the earth than the southern hemisphere and reason being that...

Satellite data brings farming advice to remote areas of Zimbabwe

Deep in rural western Zimbabwe, where tarred roads are nonexistent, Japhet Ngwenya used to spend every season worrying that the people who advise him...

Kenyan farmers find sweet spot with nutritious, drought-hardy crop

A sweet scent filled the air as workers dressed in white gumboots, aprons and hats mixed ingredients and rolled out dough at a modern...

The cost of fighting desert locusts in East Africa has doubled

The money needed to combat a desert locust outbreak in eastern Africa has doubled to $138 million, the Food and Agriculture Organization of United...

Kenyan farmers battle fruit-fly menace as climate warms

Gideon Gitonga inspected his avocado orchard in central Kenya with military precision, revealing that some of the fruit were tinged with a worryingly familiar...

A Million people face food shortage in Ethiopia due to locusts

One million people are in need of emergency food assistance in Ethiopia after the worst desert locust outbreak in decades.Nearly 200,000 hectares of cropland...

Climate-smart cassava gets new use in Zambia

To deal with drier conditions brought by a shifting climate, farmer Pamela Nyirenda last year shifted to growing drought-hardy cassava, among other new water-sipping...

Coffee production faces climate risk for Africa’s top grower

HighlightsAnnual yields could fall much as 25% by 2030, McKinsey saysStudy on coffee, wheat, corn, cotton in Ethiopia, MozambiqueEthiopia, Africa’s largest coffee grower, could...

Heavy rains in Ivory Coast boost prospects for main cocoa harvest, but hurt mid-crop

Above-average rains last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa regions bode well for the start of the next main crop in October but...

Cameroon tomato farmers count losses to wild weather and lockdown

Tomato farmer Gregory Ngwana is used to good years. But this season, wild weather – too little rainfall and then too much – has...

International researchers in Malawi to understand how weather, climate change impact agricultural production

October 5, 2022Last Updated: October 5, 2022 118 1 minute read