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The Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente stressed the importance of ICT-enabled solutions in transforming agriculture on the African continent, at the 4th Malabo Montpellier Forum taking place in Kigali yesterday. Emmanuel Kwizera.
Rwanda

PM: African farmers need to adopt ICT

Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Some of the trainees. Photos by Michel Nkurunziza.
Business

New tool could double loans to agriculture sector

Monday, June 24, 2019
Musanze farmers, local officials and partners observe drones before take-off on a mission to collect data from fields and to spray liquid pesticides on farms, last week. Towards the end of last year, Charis Unmanned Aerial Solutions, a company that was started by young Rwandan nationals, conducted an exercise to demonstrate the potential of drones in driving agriculture output in Gataraga Sector in Musanze District. / Ru00e9gis Umurengezi

Drones offering high-tech help to smallholder farmers

Sunday, June 23, 2019
SNVu2019s CEO Ms. Meike van Ginneken giving her speech.

FEATURED: SNV launches global strategy in Rwanda

Sunday, June 23, 2019
A modern commercial complex stands out.

FEATURED: Cooperatives have boosted financial inclusion, improved lives -- RCA boss

Thursday, June 20, 2019
COOPTHE Mulindi farmers and other workers that the cooperative employs are entitled to pension, which keeps their hope for a secure future alive (courtesy)
Featured

FEATURED: Gicumbi tea cooperative enables farmers get pension, easy access to finance

Thursday, June 20, 2019
President Kagame in a group photo with other continental leaders during the conference on the implementation of the SDGs in Africa held in Kigali yesterday. The conference brought together about 2000 people to discuss the SDGs journey across Africa in the last three years. Village Urugwiro.
Rwanda

Kagame calls for renewed focus to achieve SDGs

Friday, June 14, 2019
Jewel Howard Taylor (L), the Vice President of Liberia, and Belay Begashaw, the SDGs Centreu2019s director general during the meeting in Kigali on June 13, 2019. / Craish Bahizi

African leaders propose new financing options for SDGs

Thursday, June 13, 2019
A TVET student during a welding class.

TVET: Empowering the youth with practical skills

Thursday, June 13, 2019
The Director General of Sustainable Development Goals Centre for Africa, Belay Begashaw, addresses the media in Kigali yesterday. Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

SDGs: Africa ‘faces annual funding gap of $500 billion’

Friday, June 07, 2019
L-R: Eng. Colletta Ruhamya, director-general of Rwanda Environment Management Authority; Fatina Mukarubibi, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment; and Stephen Rodriques, UNDP Resident Representative in Rwanda during the official launch of the Third National Communication report on climate change, in Kigali yesterday. The report, which was prepared by REMA under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, provides an inventory of greenhouse gases in the country and mitigation measures. It was unveiled during an event to mark the World Environment Day in Kigali. / Nadege Imbabazi
Rwanda

Agriculture contributes 70% of greenhouse gas emissions in Rwanda – report

Wednesday, June 05, 2019
Centre-pivot irrigation system in a soybean plantation in Nasho, Kirehe District. / File

What will it take for Rwanda to achieve its irrigation goals?

Thursday, May 23, 2019