Second global buyer of coffee to boost Tanzania bean production by 50 pct
Mondelez International Inc., the maker of Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers, is seeking to boost African coffee output 50 percent by mid-2017 as part of a US$200m global programme aimed at benefitting 24,000 farmers of the bean in five African countries including Tanzania.
Africa As Biggest Contributor Towards Boosting Global Food Production
Researchers have indicated that it may be possible to feed 3 billion extra people without using additional land and water. The study has been published in the Journal Science and features the work of researchers from the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment.
According to the report, the biggest opportunities for boosting food production lie in Africa. Six countries to focus on, besides those of Africa, in order to make agriculture more sustainable include India, China, Brazil, Indonesia, the United States, Pakistan and Europe.
Billionaires pump big money into Kenya's milk market
Billionaire investors are queuing to pump big money into Kenya's dairy industry, attracted by a rapidly expanding market whose size is expected to more than double in the next 10 years.
Africa could become the world’s next major food source
The July issue of National Geographic magazine features “the biggest story in global agriculture: the unlikely quest to turn sub-Saharan Africa, historically one of the hungriest places on the planet, into a major new breadbasket for the world.” Author Joel K. Bourne Jr. documents the land rush set off by skyrocketing prices for corn, soybeans wheat and rice, with giant agribusinesses eager to lease or buy acreage in places where land is cheap and governments are willing to make deals.
