The 24th of March has been marked as the World Tuberculosis day, the theme of this year "Reach the 3 Million: Reach, Treat, Cure Everyone" – aims at securing care for the three million who fail to be treated every year. Tuberculosis (TB...

What does the word “WATER” mean to you? To me WATER means LIFE. Where there is no water, there is no life. It is our lifeline that bathes us, feeds us and keeps us alive. Plants and animals alike need water in order to survive. It is the most prec...

“The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.” ― Frances Moore Lappé   Mary Choombwa is a 65 year old widow and sub...

NEPAD’s Southern Africa Network for Biosciences (SANBio) would like to congratulate 16 women from the Southern African region who won the 2015 African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) fellowship. 16 of 70 fellowships were sha...

  Located in Kanye, about 100kms from the Botswana capital, Gaborone, the National Food Technology Research Centre (NFTRC) is making exceptional progress in ensuring that Botswana’s food industry has quality products. What stands out...

In order for Africa’s traditional foods to transcend villages, countries, and the continent there is an urgent need for various stakeholders to come together and establish innovative ways to process and package these foods....