Research & Development Zimbabwe

Source: © Ollivier Girad/CIFOR-ICRAF Fifty-eight ‘forgotten’ food crops in sub-Saharan Africa have been identified as able to provide healthy diets in a changing climate

Africa’s ‘forgotten’ foods research wins prestigious US Cozzarelli Prize

Company news

More company news | Submit

All about YOU! Putting YOU in YOUth Month on Biz!

Bizcommunity.com All about YOU! Putting YOU in YOUth Month on Biz!

20 May 2025

#BizTrends2025 Sponsors announced and categories still open for Curating the Future

Bizcommunity.com #BizTrends2025 Sponsors announced and categories still open for Curating the Future

21 Nov 2024

More news

Lab-grown meat techniques aren't new but bringing them up to scale will require further development

Lab-grown meat techniques aren't new but bringing them up to scale will require further development

André O. Hudson 28 Jun 2023

How science and innovation can strengthen global food systems

How science and innovation can strengthen global food systems

2 Feb 2023

Adjusting the intensity of farming can help address climate change

Adjusting the intensity of farming can help address climate change

Derek Lynch 29 Dec 2022

New food technologies could release 80% of the world's farmland back to nature

New food technologies could release 80% of the world's farmland back to nature

Chris D Thomas, Jack Hatfield and Katie Noble 9 Dec 2022

Farming and fertilisers: How ecological practices can make a difference

Farming and fertilisers: How ecological practices can make a difference

Chloe MacLaren 1 Sep 2022

How a humble mushroom could save forests and fight climate change

How a humble mushroom could save forests and fight climate change

Paul W Thomas 2 Feb 2022

Climate action in agribusiness could reduce emissions by up to 7%

Climate action in agribusiness could reduce emissions by up to 7%

9 Nov 2021

East Africa agricultural entrepreneurs find fortune in insect feed

East Africa agricultural entrepreneurs find fortune in insect feed

9 Nov 2021

Manni Group Design Award: Ghana Innovation Farm open for entries

Manni Group Design Award: Ghana Innovation Farm open for entries

28 Oct 2021

Lessons from Zimbabwe's tobacco farmers for the COP26 climate change talks

Lessons from Zimbabwe's tobacco farmers for the COP26 climate change talks

Andrew Newsham, Toendepi Shonhe and Tsitsi Bvute 26 Oct 2021

2021 Innovation Award for Sustainable Food Systems winners announced

2021 Innovation Award for Sustainable Food Systems winners announced

4 Oct 2021

Nestlé opens its largest R+D Accelerator

Nestlé opens its largest R+D Accelerator

2 Sep 2021

We throw away a third of the food we grow - here's what to do about waste

We throw away a third of the food we grow - here's what to do about waste

Kamran Mahroof and Sankar Sivarajah 19 Aug 2021

Noël N'guessan, winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering's 2021 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

Côte d'Ivoire's Noël N'guessan wins 2021 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

9 Jul 2021

Prof Maryke Labuschagne; Dr Berhanu Ertiro, former PhD student; and Dr Peg Redinbaugh from the United States Department of Agriculture.

How research, collaboration are contributing to food security in Africa

14 Jun 2021

Image Supplied.

Report: Gender-responsive research key to farm productivity, tackling Africa's agricultural threats

27 May 2021

A prairie strip filled with flowers and wild rye grass between soybean fields on Tim Smith’s farm near Eagle Grove, Iowa, reduces greenhouse gases and stores carbon in the soil. The

Climate-friendly farming strategies can improve the land and generate income for farmers

29 Apr 2021

Credit: Bruno via Pexels

Nestlé Hatcher platform invites collaboration with African innovators

15 Mar 2021

Reed canary grass. Image: RA Nonenmacher, CC BY-SA 4.0,

Scaling up bioenergy production could substantially raise water stress - new study

12 Mar 2021

A female squash bee.

A common soil pesticide cut wild bee reproduction by 89% - here's why scientists are worried

Philip Donkersley 3 Mar 2021

Mutant roots reveal how we can grow crops in damaged soils

Mutant roots reveal how we can grow crops in damaged soils

Malcolm Bennett, Bipin Pandey and Sacha Mooney 18 Jan 2021

Mangroves, like these in Madagascar, provide a range of benefits, including protection from storms and the prevention of coastal erosion. (Louise Jasper/Blue Ventures), Author provided

New mangrove forest mapping tool puts conservation in reach of coastal communities

Trevor Gareth Jones 15 Jan 2021

Credit: Eat Just

Singapore approves cell-cultured chicken bites - who will be the first to try them?

Chris Bryant 7 Dec 2020

Image source:

Global agtech market value to reach $22bn by 2025

26 Nov 2020

We found a way to turn urine into solid fertiliser - it could make farming more sustainable

We found a way to turn urine into solid fertiliser - it could make farming more sustainable

Prithvi Simha, Björn Vinnerås and Jenna Senecal 10 Nov 2020

GettyImages

Why a Zimbabwean farming project failed: Lessons for rural innovation

Eness Paidamoyo Mutsvangwa-Sammie 19 Oct 2020

FAO launches Green Cities Initiative to help transform agri-food systems

FAO launches Green Cities Initiative to help transform agri-food systems

23 Sep 2020

Screengrab via

Google and FAO launch new big data tool, Earth Map

17 Sep 2020