At The Times’ Africa CEO Summit, Brian Menell, Chairman of Kemet Global Ltd., presented his views on the challenges posed by the increase in “resource nationalism” which is building momentum across the African continent.

Forest degradation as a result of lodging, shifting cultivation, agriculture and urban development is a major issue throughout the tropics.

African governments have an historic opportunity to simultaneously secure significant new investments in agriculture and redefine relations with European partners by embracing a clear, African-led commitment to boosting food production. That is, in summary, what the Montepellier Panel Report suggests.

An expert panel challenges EU donors to match rhetoric with action as Africa focuses on farm sector and investors take notice

World yam collection in Nigeria provides ultimate rescue for African yam diversity in an initiative to conserve critical crop collections backed by the Global Crop Diversity Trust.