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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

LUSAKA, March 19 (Reuters) - Commercial maize production in Zambia will fall by about 80 percent in the 2011/2012 season compared with the previous crop season after farmers turn to more lucrative ...

Cotton farmers in Zambia rioted Sunday and set ablaze a truckload of cotton in lint form, after the farm-gate prices of the commodity plunged by more than 50%, the Zambian police said Monday. The ...