A non-governmental organisation, Catalysing Strengthened Policy Action for Healthy Diets and Resilience (CASCADE) has engaged stakeholders in the agricultural sector to strengthen linkages and supply networks for sustainable access to agricultural inputs for smallholder farmers in Nigeria.
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The Federal Government states that smallholder farmers continue to be the foundation of Nigeria’s agricultural sector, playing a crucial role…
As droughts and floods wreak havoc on harvests, small-scale farmers are spending billions of dollars of their own money each year to adapt to a changing climate, despite it being a problem they did not create, according to research released on Tuesday.
ASHENEWS reports that the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism will provide a $2 million partial trade credit guarantee and a $219,000 grant funding to Nairobi-based Apollo Agriculture Limited to support the distribution of over 7,000 tonnes of fertilizers to some 100,000 smallholder farmers in Kenya.
With smallholder farmers producing around a third of the world’s food, the growing frequency of climate disasters such as these…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has disbursed N948 billion to 4,478,381 smallholder farmers under the Anchor Borrowers’…
The federal government of Nigeria has distributed free agricultural inputs to smallholder farmers in Maiduguri, Borno, to boost agricultural production…
The federal government has distributed free Agricultural inputs and quality seeds to smallholder farmers in Gombe State, according to a…
A scientist with the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), Dr Sylvester Oikeh has described biotechnology as strong investment for African…