Agriculture is the fulcrum of Africa’s economy, with growth-enabling roles that cut across all crucial sectors despite its seemingly dwindling share of the continent’s GDP.

According to World Bank forecasts, the global economy will shrink by 5.2% this year.

The World Food Programme has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause one of the worst food crises since World War II.

Africa’s public debt has doubled to nearly half of Africa’s economic output since 2008.

 Page Mill winery is trying to take wine-making in the Livermore Valley to the next level with what some would call a bizarre new approach. It involves burying a cow horn full of a manure mixture underground for several months and digging it up when the cosmos are in alignment.

French winemakers will transform wine that went unsold during the country's two-month coronavirus lockdown into hand sanitiser and ethanol to make room for the next harvest, a farming agency said on Thursday.