Governors should stop exploiting farmers-herders conflict for political gains - Senator Adamu

Farmers in Ghana now have a new app to help them market their products and get paid quickly for whatever they sell. It puts them in touch with the right people and can keep food from spoiling.

IPAD launches a programme to aid the productivity of farmers.

India is considering a plan to transfer cash to farmers to ease their financial burden instead of offering subsidies, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The need to help Africa's farmers.

Several hundred thousands of farmers have committed suicide in the last two decades, driven by poverty and debt following failed harvests. For the families left behind, especially women, the consequences can be harsh.

Thousands of desperate farmers across India have gathered in the heart of the capital to protest against the continued state of agrarian distress. Farmers' discontent poses a challenge to PM Modi's government.

In clashes between mostly Muslim herders and Christian farmers, at least 86 people have been killed. Plateau State governor, Simon Bako Lalong, announced a curfew.

Global bee populations are on the decline. And in Southwest China, they have become so rare that fruit plantations are no longer be pollinated. Farmers are now doing it themselves.

Farmers/Herdsmen crisis - Miyetti Allah condemns killing in Benue State.

Northern leaders advise Gov Ortom to cooperate with FG over Herdsmen Farmer's crisis.

Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in the Nigerian state of Benue as conflicts between nomadic herdsmen and farmers intensify. The disputes, originally about land ownership, are now threatening to develop into ethnic conflicts.