An insecticide about to be widely deployed inside African homes to combat malaria-carrying mosquitoes is already losing its punch.

The reports of a potential La Niña event during the coming summer months presents mixed fortunes for Southern and East Africa’s agriculture.

Processing agricultural products – adding value by transforming them from basic commodities – increases their worth, appeal and market value.

The multibillion-dollar settlement Bayer announced in June to resolve thousands of Roundup cancer cases is stalled, lawyers said Thursday during a status conference before a federal judge.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) says keeping agricultural markets open, as well as fostering a more favourable business environment, will be critical to spur the renewed investment the world will need post-Covid-19.

Unprecedented, devastating, pervasive. No matter how you describe the COVID-19 pandemic, for billions around the world the virus has changed life as we knew it.  We are living through a remarkable period of history, one that will affect each of us for decades to come.