– Japan will offer enhanced trade insurance to boost private sector investment in Africa, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday as his country competes with rival China for influence in the resource-rich continent.

A U.K. organic certifier has issued a warning to the British Government about the introduction of genetic modification to agriculture.

The UK’s first commercial crop of chickpeas has been harvested in Norfolk this week.

Earth’s oldest continent has long evoked wonder. Yet that ancient proverb, “Africa always brings forth something new”, today resonates most in escalating challenges – and solutions – to water.

In NASA satellite images, forest fires in central Africa appear to burn alarmingly like a red chain from Gabon to Angola similar to the blazes in Brazil’s Amazon that sparked global outcry.

In 2015, a twenty-seven-year-old Lesego Holzapfel moved home to South Africa from the UK to build a sustainable business that invested in agriculture’s most marginalized voices.