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 ...

Brandina Muzeya prepares vegetables for sale at her family farm in Mufulira District. The family has diversified beyond maize into vegetable production to boost household income. The Zambian ...

Under the scorching sun in this southern region of Zambia, Highly Hangoma and his neighbors are busy planting trees in their degraded farmland to increase carbon stock and mitigate the effects of ...

FINANCE Minister Alexander Chikwanda has called on the Ministry of Agriculture to help increase productivities in small-holder agricultural sub sector as it is a key to the country's economic ...

Farmers in Kaniki area at Sakanya border are intending to diversify from maize production to other agricultural activities like poultry and fish farming so that they could wean themselves from Farmer ...

The highly-successful Crop Tour covered the complete science of maize production, from soil quality characteristics and tillage systems to factors affecting corn growth and development and the use of ...

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 ...

In the court papers the farmers said they had learned that the water was highly toxic only several days after the tailings dam had collapsed, flooding farms and villages. Farmers in Zambia have filed ...

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's coffee output will decline to 1,800 tonnes in 2009 from 1,887 tonnes last year due to low production after some farmers abandoned coffee growing, a senior industry official ...