Farming is central to life in Zambia, with about 60% of the country's labor force relying on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihood or income. Seasonal rains shape planting and harvesting, and ...

As in other African countries, extreme weather is displacing mammals from their migratory routes; they trample farmland in search of water and food, leaving hundreds of families without a livelihood ...

When Mwaka Sangwa, 63, first arrived in Meheba refugee settlement in North-Western Zambia in 1993, she never imagined that she would end up spending more than half of her life there. Despite losing ...

White farmers who lost their land in Zimbabwe are helping neighbouring Zambia shore up its tobacco and maize production while steering clear of political controversy. In the southern town of Choma, ...

Choongo Wycliff, 47, a community-based volunteer for Keepers Zambia Foundation, speaks to recipients of hygiene kits and water storage containers near Lusaka. Keepers Zambia Foundation is raising ...

A PARTNERSHIP built around Jersey’s world-famous dairy breed is helping improve the lives of thousands of farming families in Zambia, the country’s High Commissioner has said during a visit to the ...

Soybean production in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is increasing as its demand for food, feed, cash, and soil fertility improvement soars. Yet, the difference between the smallholder farmers’ yield and ...

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia wants foreign and local investors to plough their resources in a new model farm meant to encourage economic diversification from copper and cobalt mining to agriculture, a ...

Some of the Zimbabwean farmers whose land the government seized for redistribution two decades ago moved to Zambia and have prospered. In the past year, those farmers started exporting food to ...