Digital tools are starting to transforming agriculture. Much of this is centered on gathering data, and analyzing it, in order to make the necessary agronomic insights for precision farming. The idea ...

Barely three months after provisionally agreeing on a deal to provide Kenyan commercial farmers with land to grow maize, President Hakainde Hichilema is looking to attract Rwandan farmers to invest in ...

When Mwaka Sangwa, 63, first arrived in Meheba refugee settlement in North-Western Zambia in 1993, she never imagined that she would end up spending more than half of her life there. Despite losing ...

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's current 2015/2016 maize crop is expected to be a third lower than the previous year due to severe drought in many parts of the country, a farmers' group said on Monday.

Sixty percent of Zambians are small-scale farmers, who make up many of the nation's poorest people but produce 85 percent of its food LONDON, May 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zambia's smallholder ...

Joseph Goeb receives funding from USAID. Two commonly reported pests are bollworms and nematodes. These can dramatically reduce the amount of tomatoes that meet quality standards. To address this, ...

Under the scorching sun in this southern region of Zambia, Highly Hangoma and his neighbors are busy planting trees in their degraded farmland to increase carbon stock and mitigate the effects of ...

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's coffee output will decline to 1,800 tonnes in 2009 from 1,887 tonnes last year due to low production after some farmers abandoned coffee growing, a senior industry official ...

LUSAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Repeated failed crops caused by worsening drought have forced Christine Mwenda, a small-scale farmer in Zambia's central Mumbwa region, to do what was previously ...

Chinese Premier Li Qiang will arrive in the Zambian capital Lusaka on Wednesday, with a US$1.4 billion railway modernisation ...