In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian Elizabeth Ohene considers the call of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni for people to eat the humble cassava as the price of wheat soars ...

Mercy Diebiru-Ojo's ambitions are straightforward—increase Nigerian yam and cassava yields by 500%, fight hunger and raise her country's position on the agricultural value chain from a mere grower to ...

In the past weeks, hunger protests were held in many cities across the country as the residents reacted to the astronomical increase in the prices of commodities, especially food items. The climax of ...

Onwusibe, who is a member of the Labour Party, announced the initiative on his verified Facebook page to celebrate his first anniversary in office. Ginger Onwusibe, the member representing Isialangwa ...

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), a member of the CGIAR global research partnership, has honoured one of its scientists, Mercy Diebiru-Ojo, after she was named a 2025 Africa ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday visited Global Almas Processing Limited, a yam and cassava processing factory located in Bimbilla, in the Northern Region. Taking the President on a tour of the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, commissioned CH Global Limited, a cassava and yam processing factory operating under government’s 1-District-1-Factory initiative, located in Addo ...

Since the past three years Nigeria has been leading globally in the production of yam, palm oil, cassava, maize and rice, the Federal Government has said. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development ...