A UV light robot named Thorvald, applies treatment on grape vines in a Cornell AgriTech research field at night.
As the world goes into lockdown as a result of COVID-19, many are fearful about the reliability of food supplies in urban areas. Vertical farming may...
In remote areas with low literacy rates, showing animated videos in the local language demonstrating agricultural techniques results in high retention and adoption rates of those...
John Deere, a name synonymous with agricultural machines, is about to unleash a storm of buzzwords on the South African Market.
A new partnership is offering prizes to young entrepreneurs for coming up with innovations that tackle the loss of arable land in Africa.
African farmers are at the heart of tomorrow’s global economy
An estimated 168 million tonnes of food is lost or wasted in North America each year[i], with 49 million tonnes lost or wasted at the pre-harvest...
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has awarded four grants to support the use of blockchain in agriculture across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). With CTA’s support, Bioversity International, the International Center...
Digital ventures already have more than 33 million registered users, according to study by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and Dalberg Advisors.
More than R1 billion was lost to the South African agricultural economy in 2018 thanks to livestock theft. According to a study released by UNISA, there were...