About Us – News and knowhow for farmers

Transforming African agriculture: one farmer at a time

FarmBizAfrica is Africa’s largest and most trusted source of agricultural news, information, and training for millions of smallholder farmers. Since our founding in 2011, we’ve empowered farmers with the tools, knowledge, and information to increase their yields, improve their incomes, and adapt to the challenges of climate change.

For over a decade, we’ve been at the forefront of Africa’s agricultural transformation, delivering real-world solutions to everyday farming problems. With over 1 million page views a month and 200,000 regular visitors, we’ve become an essential part of the agricultural community across the continent.

Award-winning impact

Our most recent award is as a Moonshot Awards 2024 Finalist, joining FarmBizAfrica’s awards for:

Increasing food security – UN FAO Media Awards Winner, East African Community Media Awards Winner, UNEP/PACJA Media Awards Winner
Outstanding journalism – NEPAD/CPA Awards Winner, CNN MultiChoice African Journalism Awards Highly Commended, Africa Check Awards First Runner Up
Addressing climate change – ACCER Africa Climate Change Award Finalist
Market leadership – Kenya Bloggers Association Top Agricultural Blog

Our Mission

At FarmBizAfrica, we believe that knowledge is power. Our mission is to provide farmers with access to the latest techniques, technologies, and market trends, empowering them to increase their yields and profitability. We are passionate about making agriculture more sustainable, resilient, and climate-friendly. Our next big focus is on tackling the carbon crisis through soil regeneration and carbon capture, ensuring that farming becomes part of the solution to climate change.

Our Delivery

Over the last 13 years, we have:

Reached over 10 million farmers across Africa
Trained and advised thousands of farmers
Delivered life-changing information on topics from pest control, livestock management, and climate adaptation to market access and income diversification
Improved food security and farmers’ livelihoods, with readers telling us hundreds of their own stories, including:

“My family lives outside a village on top of a hill and often doesn’t have water, but we have always had this place at the bottom of the hill that has just a spot of water, which even when the drought was at its worst was brackish. After your article on solar water pumps and drip irrigation, I thought, what if I dig it into a much bigger hole, wouldn’t we have lots of water then? I dug it out and put in the pump and pipes. This year my family had water and food all year. And it cost so little and was there all the time.” Palmer Thambu

“This website is doing a very noble job to inspire the once lowly regarded profession of farming. Every day I go to the field to talk to young people on farming and I print information from your website to go talk to them about the farming success stories. Keep doing what should be the ideal journalism. Keep up the good work.” Lucas Njoroge

“Your story on Innovation in using cement bags to create a mountain of food about a young farmer from Thika using vertical bags to boost his food production, fully maximising the output from his limited space while halving his irrigation water usage was my top change. I was able to help establish kitchen gardens for the 15 centres in my previous workplace using the bags and other plastics as a model project for the community to learn from and replicate at their homes in Mombasa, Kwale, Taita & Makueni counties.”

“Your story from the Kenyan Met last year, 2023, which warned of the heavy coming rains helped me in reconsidering planting seeds that were much more resistant to harsh weather conditions. All my fellow farmers who I told about it and refused paid the price.”

Why soil matters now more than ever

Did you know that Africa’s soils are releasing more carbon than the entire oil industry?

We are now on a mission to show farmers real ways to to capture carbon and improve their soil, helping them grow better crops and slowing global climate change. We don’t have spare time for this: every farmer converted is more carbon gains prevented.