Laura Vang Rasmussen receives funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement 853222 FORESTDIET). Ingo Grass ...

A potent brew of untapped opportunity and climate injustice is putting smallholder farmers of the world in a bind. These farmers, who typically farm on just one to five acres of land and number 50 ...

58,500 smallholders in Ghana, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia will benefit from outgrower programmes backed by AgDevCo's Smallholder Development Unit (SDU), with farmer incomes set to collectively increase ...

In the midst of booming technological innovation across the globe, the hand hoe remains a primary tool for nearly 500 million smallholder farmers who grow nearly three quarters of the food consumed in ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) notes that in years of poor rainfall, maize harvests can drop by up to 30 percent compared to normal years. Over 80 percent of Malawi's population depends ...

Across most of Africa, rural communities grow their own food, relying on smallholder agriculture. But climate change is threatening this way of life. Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall and degraded ...

Three University of Sussex students have launched a technology programme in Malawi to help tackle agricultural challenges through artificial intelligence and low-cost electronics. Led by PhD student ...

Brendan Brown receives PhD funding from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) of Australia and the International Maize and Wheat Research Institute (CIMMYT). Ian ...

LILONGWE, December 8, 2022 – The combined effects of adverse weather, acute foreign exchange shortages, disruptions to electricity, and the high rate of inflation, mean Malawi continues to face an ...

LILONGWE, Malawi (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Elias Kanyangale is ecstatic about his maize harvest. Balancing on a homemade ladder, the farmer retrieves cobs from a full granary, the bounty of this ...