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Silent Killer on the Riverbank: Anthrax Outbreak Grips Zambia's Muchinga ProvinceA wave of unexplained animal deaths alo...
16/09/2026

Silent Killer on the Riverbank: Anthrax Outbreak Grips Zambia's Muchinga Province

A wave of unexplained animal deaths along the Munyamadzi River has turned into one of Zambia's most closely watched health emergencies of the year. With hippos, elephants and buffalo dying in the dozens — and a dozen villagers now infected after eating bushmeat — authorities are racing to contain a disease that has stalked this corner of Africa for over a century.

For the communities scattered along the Munyamadzi River in Mpika District, the first sign of trouble wasn't a headline or a health alert. It was the smell — and then the silence — as hippos began turning up dead along the riverbanks in the weeks after July.
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The Solar Freezers Fighting Africa's 40% Post-Harvest Food LossInvestors are betting big on solar freezers and biodigest...
12/09/2026

The Solar Freezers Fighting Africa's 40% Post-Harvest Food Loss

Investors are betting big on solar freezers and biodigesters as Africa loses up to 40% of harvests before they reach market. Here's why the money moved.

Investors who once chased farm-gate apps are increasingly funding something less glamorous but more urgent: the cold rooms, freezers and biodigesters standing between harvest and a spoiled crop. Read more https://www.farmandlivestocknews.africa/articles/the-solar-freezers-fighting-africas-40-post-harvest-food-loss

Africa's $210 Billion Livestock Question: Why the Continent Still Imports What It Could ProduceAfrica's livestock sector...
12/09/2026

Africa's $210 Billion Livestock Question: Why the Continent Still Imports What It Could Produce

Africa's livestock sector generates over $210bn a year, yet the continent imports much of its meat and milk. Nigeria and AU-IBAR are betting big on change.

From Abuja to Addis Ababa, a continent-wide push is under way to turn Africa's livestock sector — already worth more than $210 billion a year — into a source of processed exports and jobs, rather than a supplier of raw animals that get value added somewhere else. Read More https://www.farmandlivestocknews.africa/articles/africas-210-billion-livestock-question-why-the-continent-still-imports-what-it-could-produce

From Skies to Soil: How AI and Drones Are Transforming Farming Across AfricaDrones diagnose sick crops in hours, not wee...
12/09/2026

From Skies to Soil: How AI and Drones Are Transforming Farming Across Africa

Drones diagnose sick crops in hours, not weeks, and AI chatbots now speak to farmers in local languages. Inside Africa's fast-moving agritech boom.

Across Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and beyond, a new generation of agritech entrepreneurs is putting satellite data, artificial intelligence and unmanned aircraft directly into the hands of smallholder farmers — and governments are starting to pay attention. Read More https://www.farmandlivestocknews.africa/articles/from-skies-to-soil-how-ai-and-drones-are-transforming-farming-across-africa

The Envelope That Could Replace a Truckload: Inside Kenya's Quiet Potato Seed Revolution.Ask any potato farmer in East A...
29/08/2026

The Envelope That Could Replace a Truckload: Inside Kenya's Quiet Potato Seed Revolution.

Ask any potato farmer in East Africa what the hardest part of the job is, and many won't say the weather, or the market price, or even the labour. They'll say the seed.

Unlike maize, beans or most other staple crops, potatoes are traditionally grown not from true seed but from seed tubers — small potatoes replanted from the previous harvest. It's a system with a fundamental flaw: those tubers carry diseases forward from season to season, they're bulky and expensive to transport, and a single hectare can require close to two and a half tonnes of planting material. For smallholders already stretched thin on capital, that's often the single biggest cost of the entire growing season, before a plant has even broken the soil.

Read more https://www.farmandlivestocknews.africa/articles/the-envelope-that-could-replace-a-truckload-inside-kenyas-quiet-potato-seed-revolution

Flour Got Fortified. Cooking Oil and Sugar Are Still Waiting — Africa's Uneven Fortification Progress.Micronutrient defi...
29/08/2026

Flour Got Fortified. Cooking Oil and Sugar Are Still Waiting — Africa's Uneven Fortification Progress.

Micronutrient deficiencies affect an estimated 2 billion people globally, with sub-Saharan Africa carrying a disproportionate share of the burden — iron, vitamin A, iodine, zinc, calcium, selenium, folate and vitamin B12 deficiencies remain widespread across the region. Large-scale food fortification, the practice of adding these micronutrients to commonly consumed, industrially processed foods, has long been considered one of the most cost-effective tools available to address the problem at a population level. A comprehensive 2026 review of progress across East, Central and Southern Africa, however, finds that success has been strikingly uneven across different food categories.

Read more https://www.farmandlivestocknews.africa/articles/flour-got-fortified-cooking-oil-and-sugar-are-still-waiting-africas-uneven-fortification-progress

The Invisible Toxin in Africa's Maize and Groundnuts — And the Farm-Level Fix Now Spreading Across West Africa.It cannot...
29/08/2026

The Invisible Toxin in Africa's Maize and Groundnuts — And the Farm-Level Fix Now Spreading Across West Africa.

It cannot be seen, smelled or tasted, yet it may be one of the biggest hidden threats to food safety and child nutrition across Africa. Aflatoxin — a toxic compound produced by the fungi Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus — contaminates maize and groundnuts at both the pre-harvest and post-harvest stages, and is classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic and capable of causing developmental harm, with particularly severe consequences for young children's growth and immune function.

Read more https://www.farmandlivestocknews.africa/articles/the-invisible-toxin-in-africas-maize-and-groundnuts-and-the-farm-level-fix-now-spreading-across-west-africa

Africa's Tractor Market Is Racing Toward $3.5 Billion — And Some of It Is Going ElectricAfrica's agricultural tractor ma...
29/08/2026

Africa's Tractor Market Is Racing Toward $3.5 Billion — And Some of It Is Going Electric

Africa's agricultural tractor market is projected to grow from roughly $1.8 billion in 2026 to as much as $3.54 billion by 2035, an annual growth rate of nearly 8 percent, according to industry market analysis. A separate assessment puts the current tractor and machinery market at $2.58 billion in 2026, rising to $3.26 billion by 2031 — different methodologies, but the same underlying story: after decades of Africa lagging far behind other regions in mechanization, tractor demand across the continent is accelerating sharply.

Read more https://www.farmandlivestocknews.africa/articles/africas-tractor-market-is-racing-toward-35-billion-and-some-of-it-is-going-electric

Forget Big Tractors: Why Africa's Mechanization Push Is Betting on Small Machines and Young EntrepreneursWhen policymake...
29/08/2026

Forget Big Tractors: Why Africa's Mechanization Push Is Betting on Small Machines and Young Entrepreneurs

When policymakers, private sector actors and youth representatives gathered in Dar es Salaam in February 2026 for the first Africa Regional Conference on Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization, the consensus that emerged ran counter to decades of conventional mechanization thinking: the future of African farm machinery isn't more large tractors distributed through government subsidy schemes — it's scale-appropriate equipment delivered through viable, youth-run service businesses.

Read more https://www.farmandlivestocknews.africa/articles/forget-big-tractors-why-africas-mechanization-push-is-betting-on-small-machines-and-young-entrepreneurs

One Startup Is Now Watching Over 50 Million Trees From the Sky — Welcome to Africa's Precision Farming Moment.South Afri...
29/08/2026

One Startup Is Now Watching Over 50 Million Trees From the Sky — Welcome to Africa's Precision Farming Moment.

South African agritech company Aerobotics now monitors more than 50 million individual trees across 18 countries using drone-captured imagery and artificial intelligence, tracking everything from pest infestations to irrigation stress on a tree-by-tree basis for fruit farmers who, a decade ago, would have relied entirely on manual scouting and guesswork. It's one of the clearest signs that precision agriculture — long dismissed as a technology suited only to large, capital-rich farms in North America and Europe — has found genuine commercial traction across African farming.

Read more https://www.farmandlivestocknews.africa/articles/one-startup-is-now-watching-over-50-million-trees-from-the-sky-welcome-to-africas-precision-farming-moment

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