THE Zimbabwe government has hailed the “V30 Accelerator Model” as a game-changer for the rural economy, as it aims to transform smallholder farmers from subsistence producers into commercially ...

AS Zimbabwe advances towards its Vision 2030 target of becoming an upper-middle-income economy, food security remains a ...

Paarl’s Nederburg winery is reducing its reliance on municipal water with a closed-loop irrigation system, saving 45,000 ...

Three new high-profile studies led by Dr. Yi Yao (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and ETH Zurich) show that while irrigation may ...

FAO is supporting Zimbabwe's deployment of solar-powered irrigation, digital early-warning platforms, and Digital Villages Initiative. The EOSTAT project enables real-time crop monitoring and ...

Agriculture plays a vital role in improving livelihoods, especially in regions where it serves as the backbone of the economy ...

Baghdad: Iraq's cabinet has approved the 2025–2026 winter agricultural plan, which includes planting one million dunams (100,000 hectares) using surface (river) water, in addition to 3.5 million ...

With increasing population size and food demand, the global area equipped for irrigation has expanded almost six-fold since 1900. New research, published in three separate journal articles led by VUB ...

High on the agenda of the COP30 climate conference will be reducing emissions from agriculture and food systems, which are ...

Large artificial reservoirs, built for farmers and filled from underground water sources in winter to irrigate crops during ...

A cotton picker harvests a field in Shihezi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Sept 24. CAI ZENGLE/FOR CHINA DAILY URUMQI — Although close to the desert, a cotton field on the outskirts of Shihezi ...

In Ethiopia's Western Highlands, the Agaw people are using solar technology to sustainably cultivate their ancestral farmland.