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A view of a dried beans plantation in Eastern Province. Rwanda has recorded 2024 as the hottest year, with temperatures 1.1 degrees Celsius higher than those before the industrial revolution.File
Environment

Rwanda says 2024 hottest year on record

Thursday, January 23, 2025
A view of Nasho solar-powered irrigation project in Eastern Province in Rwanda. File

The path forward: Harnessing technology, innovation in agriculture in Eastern Africa

Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Participants during a consultation workshop under the project on resilient systems to improve value chains and post-harvest management on Friday, January 17. All photos by Craish Bahizi
Featured

FEATURED: Farmers look to reduce post-harvest losses under FAO-funded project

Monday, January 20, 2025
An agric worker sorts seedlings in an Irish potato multiplication centre in Kinigi in Musanze District. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture

Rwanda to boost nutrition with bio-fortified Irish potato varieties

Monday, January 20, 2025
Food commodities at Nyabugogo modern market on December 31, 2024. Photo by Craish Bahizi
Economy

Consumer prices hit 6.8% in December

Monday, January 13, 2025
A picture of potato peels. 80 per cent of the waste generated by Rwandan households is organic for example, food scraps
Environment

Govt urges investors to turn 3,600 tonnes of daily waste into solutions

Sunday, January 12, 2025
The newly constructed dam to retain a portion of the floodwater and release it at a controlled flow rate at Sebeya river. Courtesy
Infrastructure

Inside govt efforts to rebuild infrastructure destroyed in 2023 floods

Wednesday, January 08, 2025
Doreen Karehe sorts her strawberry plants in one of the greenhouses in which she does juicy strawberries farming in hydroponics in Mayange Sector, Bugesera district. Photos by Olivier Mugwiza
Agriculture

A look back at Rwanda’s agri-biotech uptake, drought and rice turmoil

Wednesday, January 01, 2025
Musanze and Nyagatare will at their first time be among different places in Rwanda where fireworks will be displayed as Rwandan mark the New Year 2025. Craish Bahizi
Rwanda

New Year: Musanze and Nyagatare to display fireworks

Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Workers sort avocadoes for exports at NAEB warehouse. The government of Rwanda will plant a total of 240,000 avocado seedlings on 800 hectares. File
Agriculture

Government to scale production of avocados, mangoes

Thursday, December 26, 2024
Alice Kagina and her mother at Farmhouse Rwanda in Kinigi, Musanze District. Courtesy
Women

Celebrating my mother’s lifelong strength, sacrifices with Farmhouse Rwanda experience

Wednesday, December 25, 2024
A farmer picks coffee berries in a coffee farm in Kirinyaga, Kenya, Dec. 20, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)
Africa

Coffee farming provides lifeline for Kenya's central region

Monday, December 23, 2024