When Zimbabwe’s government seized his family farm in 2001, Graham Rae looked for a way to start over. He cashed in an overseas nest egg, took out some big loans and moved north across the Zambezi ...

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, ...

White Zimbabwean farmers who sought refuge in Zambia, have helped the country pull out of a crippling food shortage that saw millions of people relying on food aid last season. The landowners were ...

LUSAKA - An hour from Zambia's capital Lusaka towards the end of a 30-km highway and an 18-km rugged untarred road, Johnken Farm stands out like an oasis amongst the wilderness of Africa. This farm, ...

KAYANJE FARM, Zambia – When a truckload of government-sponsored thugs chased Chris Thorne and his family from their wheat and soybean farm in Zimbabwe three years ago, ransacking his home and decrying ...

Li recalled that at the beginning neither she nor Wang knew the proper water temperature for unhairing until they finally looked it up shortly before they put their processed chicken on market. To go ...

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 ...

The farmers of Zambia once considered the velvet bean (Mucuna purensis) poisonous. Now, farmers have learned that in fact, this grain legume is highly nutritious and, as a feed supplement, can ...

THE decision by some farmers in certain parts of the country to sell their maize before opening of the marketing season is worrying especially that in some cases, 'briefcase buyers' are paying as ...

Joseph Goeb receives funding from USAID. Two commonly reported pests are bollworms and nematodes. These can dramatically reduce the amount of tomatoes that meet quality standards. To address this, ...

Johannesburg — The fast-track land redistribution programme in Zimbabwe has forced many commercial farmers to seek greener pastures elsewhere, and Zambia is one of the neighbouring countries that has ...