Managing Director Steve Bawa explains how he operates and what challenges, opportunities and limitations he is facing with his company Fruits & Veggies Global Limited located in Jos, Nigeria.

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Mobile services and smartphone apps, so-called m-services, can help to empower farmers with information and access to services and markets. But we should not neglect looking at their downsides. Strengthening farmers…

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Although Vietnam is one of the world’s biggest rice producers and exporters, the productivity growth of its rice sector has reached a plateau since 2010. There is an urgent need to restructure the sector towards…

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Youth

The average age of an Indian farmer is almost 50 years. With more and more young people migrating from rural areas to cities, the number of farmers practising agriculture will decline in the long run. In a pilot…

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Evolutionary biologists and law scholars in Germany and France have criticised a US project aimed at developing the use of insects to spread genetically modified viruses to crops. The viruses featured in the “Insect…

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