We take a look at African startups that could uniocorns, that is become billion-dollar companies, in the coming years.

An initiative in Zambia is showing that a profit-seeking company can help rural farmers battling extreme weather breed chickens that lay more eggs.

Barrister Yejide Ogundipe, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on Food Security, has tasked Agricultural Research Institutes and Colleges of Agriculture across the country to embark on ...

With its fiery colours and trilling call that echoes through the bush, the crested barbet is a bold little bird that looks ...

KABWE, ZAMBIA — Bayer AG has opened a €32 million ($34.5 million) maize seed facility in Kabwe, Zambia, that will supply 6.4 million Sub-Saharan African smallholders with high-yielding maize seeds in ...

I deeply regret that Richard Heydarian’s lack of understanding of Mindanao’s realities led him to draw an unfounded comparison to sub-Saharan Africa. Having been born and raised in Mindanao myself, I ...

A new study published in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment shows that pests such as the fall armyworm (Spodoptera ...

World Water Day highlights the pressing challenges surrounding global water resources and the actions needed to address them.

From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using ...

Parasitic weeds are ruthless freeloaders, stealing nutrients from crops and devastating harvests. But what if farmers could ...

The African meningitis belt is a region of 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa where the rate of incidence of meningitis is very high. It includes Mali, where this study was conducted, and extends ...

More equitable representation of this diversity is needed within global resources and reference databases, he adds. This piece was produced by SciDev.Net’s Sub-Saharan Africa English desk.