October 2025

Rwanda's Salama Juice in supermarket shelves

Rwanda shuts down Salama Juice factory over food safety violations

Africa, News, Standards, Testing & Compliance /

RWANDA — Authorities in Rwanda have ordered Joyland Company Ltd, the producer of the popular Salama Juice brand, to suspend operations indefinitely after inspectors discovered alarming food safety violations, poor hygiene, and unsafe working conditions at its Nyarugenge-based factory.   The shutdown followed a five-day nationwide crackdown from October 13–17,

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Attendees at the 2025 ISO Annual Meeting in Kigali about the country’s adoption of machine learning and satellite technology in farming.

Rwanda adopts machine learning, satellite imagery to drive precision agriculture

Africa, Innovation & Technology, News /

RWANDA – Rwanda is advancing the use of machine learning and satellite imagery to monitor crops, improve resource efficiency, and enhance the profitability of farming, according to Mark Cyubahiro Bagabe, Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources.   Speaking during the 2025 International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Annual Meeting held in

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Liberia launches Soils4Liberia, a nationwide effort to map soils and promote data-driven, climate-smart farming.

Liberia launches US$5M Soils4Liberia Project to build national soil database, support climate-smart farming

Africa, News, Sustainability /

LIBERIA – Liberia’s Ministry of Agriculture has launched the Soils4Liberia Project, a $4.3 million (US$5M) initiative to map and classify soils across all 15 counties, in a move designed to strengthen data-driven and climate-smart agriculture.   The project, funded by the European Union and implemented in partnership with the International

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A picture of Appert and his early wide-necked bottle for canning innovation

The Origins of Canning: Innovation Born from War and Hunger

Blog, Food Safety Tech, Innovation & Technology /

In the late 18th century, Europe was consumed by war and one of the greatest challenges armies faced wasn’t enemy fire, but food spoilage. Feeding thousands of soldiers on long campaigns was nearly impossible with traditional preservation methods like salting, smoking, or drying.   In 1795, the French government under

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