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Ensuring food security remains a significant challenge for rural farming households in Nigeria, where fluctuations in agricultural productivity directly affect household welfare and nutritional outcomes...

The integration of machine learning, edge computing, and Internet of Things technologies is enabling real-time, energy-efficient, and context-aware monitoring in smart agriculture. This paper presents a scalable AIoT framework...

Climate change is a growing threat severely impacting crop production and productivity in East and West Africa. However, evidence comparing the nature of the impact and adaptive measures between...

Highlights: Conventional agricultural practices have significantly deteriorated the fertile soil by overuse of traditional fertilizers. Nanofertilizers enhance nutrient use efficiency through controlled and gradual...

The West African sub-region is currently experiencing global warming at levels faster than the world’s average. The urgency of addressing the impacts of climate change, coupled with amplifying food crisis...

Purpose of the Review This review examines the future of food availability in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda in the context of rapid population growth and accelerating climate change. It aims to assess...

The growth of digital marketing platforms is reshaping the food systems and offers a potential solution to farmers’ output market access problem. However, the digital transformation also leads...

Agricultural best management practices (BMPs) can enhance sustainable agriculture, environmental conservation, and ecosystem resilience. Agricultural BMPs can reduce nutrient runoffs, such...

Rising food demand and climate variability are accelerating the adoption of smart agriculture (SA), where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) coupled with machine learning (ML)...

Africa has become import-dependent for staple food cereals over the past five decades. It is an ongoing dispute if increasing import dependency in Africa is causing...