A new study reveals that farming in Argentina’s Uspallata Valley was adopted by local hunter-gatherers rather than introduced ...

Water engineers in ancient South America turned seasonally flooded Amazonian savannas into hotbeds of year-round maize farming. Previous excavations dated Casarabe society, which covered an area of ...

Malawi's increasingly unpredictable rainfall and higher than usual temperatures are causing problems for smallholder farmers. Soil erosion has increased, causing soil fertility and water availability ...

Sunflower farming in West Yimbo in Siaya County. [Isaiah Gwengi/Standard]. For years, maize has been the staple crop for many farmers across Kenya. By July, under normal circumstances, most households ...

BLANTYRE, July 28 (Reuters) - Malawi's output of maize, its staple grain, fell 5.6% in the 2022/23 farming season because of a shortage of fertiliser and extreme weather conditions that damaged crops, ...

Nigeria’s total maize production was about 11 Million Metric Tonnes (MMT) in 2019, according to data from Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). This makes her Africa’s second-largest maize producer ...

Farmers across Oyam District in Northern Uganda are set to benefit from a major agricultural support initiative following the ...