[The Point] The Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) recently engaged stakeholders in the financial sector on agricultural financing at a recent high level breakfast meet [...]

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Date: 27-Jul-2022

[This Day] United Nations has decried that worsening food insecurity may push 1.74 million children under the age of five in the North-eastern Nigeria into malnutrition. [...]

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Date: 27-Jul-2022

[VOA] Yaounde -- French President Emmanuel Macron is on a first trip to Cameroon and will meet Tuesday with long-ruling President Paul Biya to discuss security, economic, and food [...]

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Date: 27-Jul-2022

Tribune Online CBN, Unilorin partner on N600m integrated commercial poultry farm The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in partnership with the University of Ilorin has commissioned an [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 26-Jul-2022

Tribune Online Food sufficiency: NEPC urges FG to provide security for farmers The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has called on the Federal Government to protect farmers [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 26-Jul-2022

Tribune Online Zowasel, VBank collaborate to assist farmers with loans for efficient farming Zowasel, a sustainable commodity marketplace dedicated to developing the country’s s [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 26-Jul-2022

Tribune Online Lagos empowers 500 rice farmers The Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture has trained and empowered 500 rice farmers across the state as a measure to standardise farm [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 26-Jul-2022

Tribune Online Alliance for Science seeks more sensitisation on biosafety management The Alliance for Science Nigeria has called for more sensitization of stakeholders including f [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 26-Jul-2022

As part of efforts to prevent food crisis in Nigeria, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has said it will support 296, 800 vulnerable smallholder far [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 26-Jul-2022

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tiamin Rice Milling Company, Alhaji Aminu Ahmed, has disclosed that the company, when commissioned in the next two months, would produce 600 me [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 26-Jul-2022

[VOA] Nairobi -- U.S. aid officials are calling on countries in the Horn of Africa to speak out against the Russian government's blockade of Ukrainian ports, which have held back g [...]

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Date: 26-Jul-2022

[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- The Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria began a nationwide strike this week to protest soaring production costs, fueled partly by Russia's [...]

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Date: 26-Jul-2022

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Tunis -- The inflation diaries: Many rely on state-subsidised pasta to survive as food, fuel, and rent prices hit the poor and middle-class alike [...]

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Date: 26-Jul-2022

[GhanaToday] The Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA), under the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, is set to launch a Five-Year Strategic and Implementation Plan geared towards [...]

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Date: 26-Jul-2022

[Ghanaian Times] The Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA), under the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, is set to launch an ambitious five-year strategic and implementation plan [...]

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Date: 26-Jul-2022

[Ghanaian Times] Zebilla -- farmers in Zebilla, capital of Bawku West District, in the Upper East Region, have started preparing their lands and sowing cereals as they are in the w [...]

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Date: 26-Jul-2022

[Nile Post] The prolonged dry spells in Kayunga have raised fears of possible hunger in the district. [...]

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Date: 26-Jul-2022

[SAnews.gov.za] Eskom has warned that load shedding may be implemented at short notice following a series of faults at its Kriel Power Station. [...]

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Date: 25-Jul-2022

[Ghanaian Times] One interesting subject that was raised recently after my article on cassava fufu was whether plantain should dominate. Probably, the proponents could be right. Ho [...]

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Date: 25-Jul-2022

[Shabelle] MOGADISHU - The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $476 million in critical humanitarian and develo [...]

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Date: 25-Jul-2022

The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development, Dr Ernest Umakhihe has flagged off yet another distribution of free Agricultural Inputs and Quality [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 23-Jul-2022

To provide jobs for the teeming youths, the Federal Government has unveiled an agricultural scheme that it said would empower at least 1000 Nigerians in each of the 36 States of th [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 23-Jul-2022

By Tunde Akanbi, Ilorin The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in collaboration with the University of Ilorin, has inaugurated Unilorin GGMAX integrated commercial poultry farm funded [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 23-Jul-2022

[Premium Times] The report said Nigerians are running out of coping strategies and are in danger of starving if measures are not taken to buffer the effect of rising prices. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Jul-2022

[New Republic] Noble Peace Laureate and former independence day orator Leymah Gbowee has described Liberia as a hungry and angry nation. [...]

Country: Liberia

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Jul-2022