Africa today is experiencing two major demographical trends ... Optimizing crop yields means little to farmers if their produce cannot be marketed and converted into cash. A marketing system must be ...

It can be very tough farming a smallholding in South Africa. She has to deal with crime ... resources - knowledge and funding - while small farmers generally struggle to even sustain, or grow ...

The problems they face include drought and poor harvests, small farm sizes, the high costs of inputs such as fertiliser and chemicals and little ... farmers in rural parts South Africa’s ...

The fish farmers use their share, among other things, to invest in individual ventures such as poultry and dairy farming. Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans In December 2019, a section of ...

Farmers in Africa, whose crop brings little profit, are the ones with a bitter aftertaste. Grocery shopping this Christmas season may bring some relief compared to recent years, as falling food ...

Researchers thus advocate that small farmers in low- and middle-income countries ... They analyzed surveys of almost 90,000 households in Africa, most of whom were smallholders.