Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete recently sat down for an hour-long interview with AllAfrica's Reed Kramer and Tami Hultman at State House in Dar es Salaam. In the wide-ranging conversation, he addressed issues of health, education, corruption, food security, regional

Fewer children suffer acute malnutrition in northern and western Côte d'Ivoire than in recent years, but chronic malnutrition has risen to "critical levels", says a report by the government and UN.

Residents of Moyale in the upper eastern region of Kenya, along the border with Ethiopia, are used to unpredictable and mostly dry weather. "When the rains come, they are erratic," Rashid Karayu, chairman of the Golbo Integrated Development Programme, a

That rice in this country has become a national staple is a pedestrian fact which warrants no argument. According to statistics, Ghanaians consume 600,000 metric tons of rice annually out of which our local farmers produce only 30% of the

With warnings of global food shortage, farmers here have been urged by the U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, Linda Thomas-Greenfeild to embark on a larger food production thus exposing their country to the consumption of more local food than imported ones.

Pastoralists in parts of the semi-arid eastern region of Isiolo are abandoning their nomadic lifestyles in favour of farming to improve their food security and livelihoods.

Two-year-old Safia Emoi is weak, thin and listless. She has just arrived at the Heillu Health centre with her mother Amima Mohammed, who set off early to make the 4km trek to the clinic in the outskirts of the upper

During the recent African Economic Conference (AEC) in Ethiopia, top international and African researchers convened with African policymakers to develop new strategies for Africa's agricultural growth and macroeconomic development for a post-global economic crisis environment.

Farmers in Malindi District have rejected a planned tax on agricultural land to be effected next year.

RESETTLED farmers in Karas Region say they are fed up with the Lands and Resettlement Ministry's empty promises to improve poor water infrastructure at their farms.

Chairman of Yala local government area of Cross River State, Mr. Fidel Egoro, has declared that his area has the best barite in the world.

Thousands of farmers in Malindi district have rejected the introduction of a tax levy on agricultural land to be effected from next year.