Swaziland will assume the chairmanship of the 15 member Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa or COMESA at the end of August. We caught up with Swaziland's Minister of Trade, Commerce and Industry, Jabulile Mashwana and asked her about the role Swaziland hopes to play in reforming economic policies within COMESA

By: nourishingtheplanet Sunday July 25, 2010 4:00 pm By Catherine Njuguna Millions of cassava farmers in eastern and central Africa are in distress from viral cassava diseases that are sweeping across the region and ravaging their crops. But their counterparts on the popular tourist island of Zanzibar are undergoing a quiet revolution using new disease-resistant and high-yielding varieties that were introduced three years ago...

KAMPALA, UGANDA - A network of African agribusinesses wants greater support for the development of private entrepreneurship in rural areas. Participants of the first ever Strategic Planning Workshop on Agrodealer Development in Kampala, Uganda recently, raised the need for more training and capacity building in business management, greater access to finance, and higher quality farm inputs, particularly improved seeds, to meet increased farmer demand in support of an Africa-wide effort to transform small-scale agriculture from subsistence to business...