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Agriculture insurance finally launched in Botswana

Agriculture insurance has finally been launched for the first time in Botswana with the facilitation of the Agricultural Hub, as the sector tries to move towards full commercialisation. This week,...

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Botswana welcomes livestock insurance

The newly launched livestock insurance scheme will help improve business sustainability and productivity in the agricultural sub sector, the product promoters-Botswana Insurance Company-are confident....

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Botswana’s cattle industry: an uncertain future despite vaccine breakthrough

One chief facet of the country’s domestic agriculture industry remains cattle raising (though agriculture and livestock production account for between only 2-4% of GDP, while employing approximately...

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Wildlife populations reported to be crashing in Africa’s renowned Mara and...

The African Cape buffalo (photo credit: ILRI/Elsworth). Is conservation of wild mammals and their environments in Africa at a crisis point? Are wildlife populations “crashing” in Africa’s most...

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Multi-stakeholder innovation in Africa: Dairy and beef cases feature in new...

The Forum on Agricultural Research in Africa just published a new report on agricultural innovation in sub-Saharan Africa: experiences from multiple-stakeholder approaches. The report draws together...

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Animal genetic resources workshop: Uniting Africa in preserving our future

Workshop participants A workshop on Animal Genetic Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa was recently held in Gaborone, as an ILRI-SLU capacity building Project in collaboration with the FAO, AU/IBAR and...

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Beef fattening ready for take-off in southern Africa with new financing made...

Cattle in Zimbabwe waiting to be weighed before the auction (photo credit: ICISAT/Swathi Sridharan). Rural farmers in Zimbabwe and the whole of Southern Africa are set to receive a major boost in...

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