Filly Mangassa, left, and Mamadou Camara, who are part of a growing trend of young Africans moving to rural areas for better work opportunities, throw peanut plants on a pile on a farm in Tambacounda, ...

Across Africa, wheat, maize and rice are the most consumed cereal crops. When they fail because of drought, floods or other ...

Africa’s reliance on industrial agriculture reflects colonialism, inequality, and the erasure of indigenous knowledge, while intensive farming has driven soil degradation, environmental harm, poor ...

South Africa's agriculture remains an important sector of the economy and holds great potential to reduce poverty. It's also central to the political economy of the country, as evident in the ...

As African farmers struggle with unpredictability caused by climate change, some are looking into contract farming, which involves growing a certain crop for a price set in advance. About 400 people ...

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South Africa's rural development debate often starts with a familiar idea: if rural households have more land, they can produce more food, earn more money and become "emerging farmers" who eventually ...

International trade has been at the core of South Africa's agricultural progress since the early 2000s. Since 1994, the country has excelled in opening up new markets, as evidenced by several free ...

When I was a boy growing up in KwaBhaca in the Eastern Cape, springtime didn’t arrive with a date on a calendar. The land told you. Suddenly, there were daisies across the hills. Yellow, orange and ...