Tag Archives: Climate smart agriculture

AI chatbot helps farmers navigate a changing world (JapanTimes)

A new artificial intelligence chatbot is proving invaluable for farmers struggling to overcome modern agricultural challenges, with food and climate experts seeing the technology as key in dealing with food insecurity caused by the challenges of global heating and the Ukraine war. Ismail Serageldin, former vice president of the World Bank, said at a meeting […]
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ADF approves $20m grant to drive investment in climate-smart agriculture in Mozambique (EN)

The African Development Fund (ADF), the African Development Bank’s (AfDB’s) concessional lending arm, has approved a grant of $19.98-million to finance the implementation of Mozambique’s Economic Acceleration and Governance Support Programme. This funding is the first of two successive general budget support operations for fiscal years 2023 and 2024, each worth about $20-million. Click here to read […]
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US and Norway partner to invest $70 Million in African Agriculture Fund amidst food insecurity (BI)

A spokesperson from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced that the United States and Norway are jointly committing $70 million to establish a fund to support farmers and agricultural businesses across Africa. Recurring drought, climate change, armed conflict, and economic and political instability have led to severe food shortages across the continent, […]
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Agriculture was the fastest growing sector of the SA economy in the second quarter (EN)

The Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) has, in its brief report ‘Perspectives on Agriculture’s Performance in Q2 of 2023’, highlighted the contribution of the agricultural sector to South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) during the second quarter of this year (2Q23). While total GDP grew by 0.6%, quarter-on-quarter, agricultural GDP grew by 4.2% over […]
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How satellite-enabled apps can improve agriculture from space (Foodformzansi)

A few numbers from a report about space applications in agriculture jumpt out: 2.8 billion litres of fresh water could be saved and food waste reduction could contribute an additional $150-175 billion in economic value for producers. Not too shabby, right? Space technology is transforming how we do things on Earth these days. But it […]
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How to help smallholder farmers fight climate change (DM)

In response to these and other challenges that farmers said they face, the University of KwaZulu-Natal designed a training programme on climate-smart agriculture. The first method that farmers learned and practised was the use of the A-frame to mark and plant, following horizontal or contour lines, and the digging of trenches to keep water underground […]
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