Monthly Archives: February 2016

According to experts at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, we are sitting on the edge of theFourth Industrial Revolution. This revolution builds on the third, which was the digital revolution, and is predicted to blur the lines between the physical and digital world through innovations such as artificial intelligence, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, andContinueContinue reading “Accelerating change for smallholders with digital technology”

Habitat loss driven by expanding agricultural land is a major driver of biodiversity loss. Two, seemingly opposing, strategies have been proposed as a way of reconciling increased demand for agricultural production and conservation of biodiversity, and in turn preventing further conversion of natural habitat to farming: land sparing (the intensification of agriculture to set asideContinueContinue reading “Mechanisms to increase agricultural productivity and spare land for conservation”

“How to feed our cities? Agriculture and rural areas in an era of urbanisation” – that was the theme of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, or for short, the GFFA, hosted in Berlin in mid-January. With Habitat IIItaking place in October in Quito, Ecuador, urbanisation features on top of the agenda of manyContinueContinue reading “What urbanisation means for rural areas in Africa”

Tilapia Aquaculture Developers Association of Nigeria has harvested the first set of tilapia fishes at a ground-breaking ceremony in Iseyin, Oyo State, last Saturday. At the event which held at Ikere Gorge Dam, the Managing Director, Ogun-Oshun River Basin Development Authority, Engr. Akintunde Soyemi lauded the achievement of TADAN and assured greater support of fishContinueContinue reading “TADAN HARVESTS 2016 FIRST TILAPIA FISHES”