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Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization and partners are organizing the East African Digital Farmers Conference. The conference will run from the 29 April to the 31st of May 2018, at the Kenya Agriculture & Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) grounds in Nairobi, Kenya . The...

Smallholder farmers constitute the bulk of the global farmers , about 90% of the worlds farms are owned and operated by families and most live in rural areas. Yet most of these are affected by the effects of climate change, funding crisis, drought and other factors inhibiting agriculture. In fact,...

January 2018, Mutasa, Zimbabwe Linda Mungira, a mother of four children and smallholder farmer in Mutasa, a district in eastern Zimbabwe, walks slowly towards her chicken coup at the edge of her residence next to her toilet facility on her modest rural homestead. She takes with her a woven basket...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations projects that by 2050 humanity’s ranks will likely have grown to nearly 10 billion people. Farmers will need to produce more with less, while preserving our environment for future generations. And society has a duty to help them...