Limagrain: Aiding African farmers, seed by seed

Jun 27, 2023

Three leading seed companies are changing the trajectory for smallholder farmers in parts of Africa and South Africa. Their goal is simple, to provide farmers with the best genetics so that they can be as successful and sustainably profitable as possible in growing...

Podcast: Changing the grain game in Africa

Jun 27, 2023

In this edition of Farmers Inside Track, Frédéric Savin, CEO of Limagrain Africa, talks about how their new joint venture company combines the forces of three leading seed companies based in South Africa. Limagrain is a French enterprise owned by French farmers....

TORs: Donor Mapping-Updating the AATF Resource Mobilization Strategy

Oct 28, 2022

The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) is a not-for-profit organisation that embraces a mission of making available, to smallholder farmers, agricultural technologies that were previously not accessible to them. AATF facilitates public-private...

Seed producer asks Nigeria to go hybrid to boost maize production

Oct 10, 2022

(Kaduna: October 5, 2022) Nigeria will achieve self-sufficiency in maize production when farmers embrace hybrid varieties, a leading seed producer has said. Mr. Brighton Karume, the managing director of ECOBasic Seeds Limited, said productivity was hampered by...