Stories tagged: crop production

Kenya: Investing in irrigation to increase income from vegetables (IFC and SciDev.Net)

admin | May 7, 2026

Fifty years ago, Kavuru village, in Kenya’s Embu County, was mostly dry grassland. Kinaro Waithaka purchased a 10-acre plot here […]

admin | March 12, 2026

Grena Banda and her husband, Daniel Mwafulirwa, spent years struggling to make ends meet on their small farm in Rumphi […]

admin | February 25, 2026

In Nkhondola, a small village in Chongwe District, Eastern Zambia, Royd Michelo and his wife, Adasila Kanyanga, have transformed their […]

Florence Ugbem | December 18, 2025

It’s about 6:30 a.m. in Uosuh 1, a community a few kilometres from Gbajimgba in Guma Local Government Area of […]

admin | October 7, 2025

Under the scorching midday sun, Salina Chepsat loads crates of ripe tomatoes into a vehicle bound for Marigat market, 30 […]

admin | August 28, 2025

In the village of Ouèdo Ahouanssodja, about 40 kilometres from Cotonou, a group of young farmers is building a future […]

admin | July 30, 2025

In Kasawo, north of Kampala, cocoa farmer Abubaker Kisekka no longer has to climb tall, stacked wooden boxes to process […]

admin | May 8, 2025

Yam is one of the world’s most important root crops, especially in West Africa, where Ghana and Nigeria produce over […]

admin | April 9, 2025

In Mzimba District, northern Malawi, vast stretches of farmland once flourished with golden maize and thriving banana trees. But in […]

admin | March 14, 2025

Mwajuma Rashid Njau and Muma Rajab are small-scale farmers in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Like many farmers in the region, they face […]