Ivorean footballer Yaya Toure calls for African leaders to invest in youth, agriculture and education in order to alleviate hunger and eradicate poverty. “For [youth] to be the fuel for global progress they themselves need fuel: for their stomachs, and their minds.” Read …
The farming sector is growing and facing major changes that increasingly require more skilled labour. Recent data from Stats SA shows that the agricultural sector was the leading job creator in the first quarter of 2015, adding 150 000 jobs. This is a significant achievement, considering the challenges within the …
The Ugandan government is distributing over 300million coffee seedlings in a period at a rate of 100 million annually. These are distributed freely to farmers in over the 82 coffee growing districts of the country. For the smooth running of the project, UCDA has identified about 1500 coffee seedling …
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