Farmers have identified eight seed varieties across six crops as the most climate-resilient and high-yielding, according to the Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB).

Only six per cent of farmers in Rwanda currently have crop and livestock insurance, resulting in substantial losses during extreme weather events such as droughts, flooding, hail, and landslides, ...

To help farmers and grain traders reduce the prevalence of aflatoxins in crops and grains in Rwanda, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), ...

A centre of excellence for crop biotechnology is set be established to develop and deploy disease-resistant seeds under a new five-year project, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal ...

A unique “coworking space” for farmers in drought-stricken Rwanda will soon offer local growers a sustainable way to produce crops. Agriculture accounts for a third of landlocked Rwanda’s GDP but ...

When I became a farmer here in Rwanda, I started to grow sweet bananas. They were a natural and a staple crop for my country and its climate—and back in 2015, I had high hopes for where they would ...

Washington State University has released several new quinoa varieties to farmers in the east African nation of Rwanda. About 700 small-scale farmers grow the crop in Rwanda, said Kevin Murphy, WSU’s ...

Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 43, No. 148, SPECIAL ISSUE: AFRICA AND THE DRUGS TRADE REVISITED (June 2016), pp. 277-293 (17 pages) Over the past decade, African agriculture sectors have ...

A new CABI-led study has found that mass media campaigns aimed at changing pesticide use to fight crop pests and diseases are more effective when farmers are exposed to multiple forms of communication ...

Washington State University has released several new quinoa varieties to farmers in the east African nation of Rwanda. About 700 small-scale farmers grow the crop in Rwanda, said Kevin Murphy, WSU’s ...