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Africa: Growing Plants On Buildings Can Reduce Heat, Produce Healthy Food in Cities
[The Conversation Africa] Persistently high temperatures and related heat stress are a big problem for people living in cities, especially in slums and informal settlements. It's a [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
Nigeria: AfDB, JICA Provide $244m for Emergency Food Production in Nigeria
[Vanguard] The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), have provided 244 million dollars for emergency food production in Nigeria. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
Liberia: The Nation Is Hungry and Undernourished!
[FrontPageAfrica] Save for Nigeriens, who are land-locked in Niger and bordered by mostly troubled neighbors, Liberians in Liberia are the hungriest people in West Africa. Globally [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
Nigeria: Nigeria Ranks 103rd Among 121 Countries Facing Hunger Crisis - AfDB
[Daily Trust] Nigeria occupies the 103rd position among 121 countries classified to be facing a hunger crisis, said the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi A [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
Kenya: Farmers Face Losses As Climate Change Starts to Take Course #AfricaClimateCrisis
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- James Maina, a tea farmer in Muranga county in Kenya is a distraught man. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
Africa: From Water Conservation to Crop Selection, How Farmers CAN Take Action Against Drought #AfricaClimateHope
[The Conversation Africa] As climate change accelerates, many countries around the world are increasingly facing the risk of drought. Water scarcity has become one of the major con [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
CROP HARVEST: Adamawa rice farmers lose big as floods take over fields — (PHOTOS)
Less than two weeks to harvest, farms along the perimeters of the River Benue and its tributaries have been submerged in the last two months. The post CROP HARVEST: Adamawa rice [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 24-Oct-2022
Congo-Kinshasa: When Food Insecurity Adds to the Hardships Caused By Violence
[ICRC] People who had fled the violence in the province of Tanganyika returned to their land in 2019 and 2021. Since their return, they had been trying to get back to their normal [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 24-Oct-2022
Kenya: What Lifting GMO Ban Means for Kenya
[SciDev.Net] Nairobi -- Kenya's decision to lift a ban on importing and producing genetically modified (GM) food could boost research and development in biotechnology and alleviate [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 24-Oct-2022
Tanzania: How Nfra Guarantees Food Security
[Daily News] Dodoma -- THE National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) has outlined various measures it is instituting to guarantee food security in the country, including increasing its s [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 24-Oct-2022
Nigeria: NAFDAC Targets Attainment of Who Maturity Level Four Certification
[This Day] The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said it would work to attain the World Health Organisation (WHO) Maturity Level Four certi [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 24-Oct-2022
Liberia: Police in Bong Sell Rice for Lrd2,300
[New Dawn] Bong county -- Police in Gbarnga, Bong County have arrested several 25kg bags of rice and put them on sale for 2,300 Liberian Dollars or an equivalent of US$13.50 per ba [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 24-Oct-2022
Nigeria: Floods Devastate Farmlands, Raise Fear of Food Insecurity in Nigeria
[Premium Times] "The disaster has wiped away everything," Mr Ali said. "I was hoping to harvest over 200 sacks of rice looking at the prospect of the field ..." [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 24-Oct-2022
Senator Tasks Nigerian Government To Provide Veterinary Centres
The Deputy Senate Chief Whip, Sen. Aliyu Abdullahi, has urged the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to establish a Federal Veterinary Medical Centre in each geo [...]
Agriculture LivestockCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 24-Oct-2022
First Aquagrico Farms Ltd to build Nigeria’s largest Farmers’ Market
First Aquagrico Farms Nigeria Ltd, a family-owned agribusiness development company based in Akure, Ondo State, South-west Nigeria, has disclosed that the firm is planning to build [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2022
Benefit Or Burden? A Farming Program's Mixed Results
[Global Press Journal] Harare, Zimbabwe -- Doubts about its effectiveness and allegations of corruption tarnish a contract farming program intended to reduce Zimbabwe's reliance on [...]
AgricultureCountry: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2022
The DA's Plan to Cut Food Costs
[DA] South Africa is in the throes of a hunger crisis. Four out of five households are skipping at least one daily meal while two out of five households say they can't feed their f [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: South Africa
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2022
Africa: Sustainable Future - Equipping Young Researchers, Innovators to Work for Climate
[Africa Renewal] Green alternatives can transform Africa's agri-food systems and generate significant benefits [...]
AgricultureRegion: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2022
State to Import 6-Million Fertilizer Bags Ahead of Long Rainy Seasons
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya plans to import an additional 6-million bags of fertilizer ahead of the long rainy season of March 2023. [...]
Agriculture Crop ProductionCountry: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2022
Africa: Food Is Scarce These Days, and the Refugees Keep Coming
[Global Press Journal] Isingiro, Uganda -- At Africa's oldest refugee settlement, cuts to monthly stipends lead to hunger -- and conflicts with Ugandan farmers. [...]
Food & BeverageRegion: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2022
USAID Wary of Food Politicisation Ahead of Crunch 2023 Election Campaigns
[New Zimbabwe] USAID says it has put modalities in place to guard against food monopoly by political parties in rural areas ahead of the 2023 general elections. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2022
USAID Injects U.S.$36.7 Million Assistance to Eight Food Insecure Zim Districts.
[New Zimbabwe] THE United States Agency for International Development (USAid) has availed US$36.7 million through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to eight food insecu [...]
AgricultureCountry: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2022
Africa: Africa Could Feed Itself - Building Resilient Food Systems
[New Agenda] Africa has the natural resources and the policies required to tackle poverty and hunger - but these policies are not effectively implemented. Noting the impact of Russ [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageRegion: Africa
Date: 21-Oct-2022
Association Attributes Egg Scarcity In Nigeria To Low Productivity
The Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) has attributed the current scarcity of eggs and rising costs of poultry produce to reduced productivity of the sector. The Chairman of PAN [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Oct-2022
Kenya: Murkomen Pledges to Boost Technical Infrastructure at Border Points to Reduce Congestion
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The nominee for Transport and Public Works Kipchumba Murkomen has pledged to boost the technological infrastructure along the border points to ease the cong [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Oct-2022