[Premium Times] About 4.1 million people urgently need food assistance across Borno, Adamawa and Yobe in northeast Nigeria," Mr Haq said. [...]

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Date: 14-Jul-2022

[UN News] The UN chief on Wednesday described progress between Russia and Ukraine on allowing the resumption of grain exports during UN-brokered talks in Türkiye, as a "ray of hop [...]

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Date: 14-Jul-2022

[Premium Times] The paste made from orange-fleshed sweet potato is becoming the new normal in bread-making in Nigeria, where bakeries have fallen on hard times following record jum [...]

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Date: 14-Jul-2022

A stakeholder in the agricultural sector has urged Nigerian farmers to embrace climate -smart agricultural approach to mitigate impacts of climate change on production. The Directo [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 12-Jul-2022

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), recently rewarded farmers who performed creditably well in its Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund (ACGSF) for the year 2021. Presenting th [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 12-Jul-2022

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Inefficient markets and limited access to finance and services often lead to waste and loss - but support for small businesses can build local supply c [...]

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Date: 12-Jul-2022

[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Cameroon's government has called for emergency food support for more than two million people facing hunger along its northern borders with Chad and Niger [...]

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Date: 12-Jul-2022

[Daily News] TANZANIA local companies yesterday signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with eight Chinese firms to import food processing machines used for adding value to wheat [...]

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Date: 12-Jul-2022

[This Day] The 2022 edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World's (SOFI) report of the United Nations (UN) has projected that nearly 670 million people, repres [...]

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Date: 12-Jul-2022

[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles' state-owned Islands Development Company (IDC) says that it is still going ahead with its agriculture programme on the outer island of Coetivy d [...]

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Date: 12-Jul-2022

[Foroyaa] Innovative solar-powered technologies are securing access to water for rural communities [...]

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Date: 12-Jul-2022

[This Day] When we hear the words "local rice farmer", we might imagine a rural dweller in a straw hat cultivating their crops in a rice paddy. As familiar as this picture might be [...]

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Date: 12-Jul-2022

[The Point] BANJUL, 7 July 2022: The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad, Dr. Mamadou Tangara, on Thursday, 7 July 2022 presided o [...]

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Date: 12-Jul-2022

[This Day] A report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has categorised Nigeria, Ethopia, South Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan and [...]

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Date: 12-Jul-2022

The Nigerian Government chose the reserve to flag off its National Pasture Development Programme (NAPDEP) designed to allow livestock farmers across the country to develop farmstea [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 11-Jul-2022

The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of S [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 11-Jul-2022

[Foroyaa] Resident Farmers Still Lament Discontentment [...]

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Date: 11-Jul-2022

[RFI] Entrepreneurs in Cameroon's anglophone region have found a way to provide local, fresh fish to customers, despite a lack of a river and an ongoing armed rebellion. Their effo [...]

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Date: 11-Jul-2022

[Daily News] WHILE Tanzania's fishery sector registered a 2.5 per cent growth in 2021, contributing 1.8 per cent to GDP, there is a need for concerted efforts to rescue the industr [...]

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Date: 11-Jul-2022

[WFP] As inflation erodes people's purchasing power in Sierra Leone, WFP has introduced a better kind of school feeding, that empowers rural women to grow and supply surplus fresh [...]

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Date: 11-Jul-2022

[The Conversation Africa] Morocco has a large fertiliser industry with huge production capacity and international reach. It is one of the world's top four fertiliser exporters foll [...]

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Date: 11-Jul-2022

[This Day] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) translated to mean 'Doctors without Borders,' an international medical humanitarian organisation has raised the alarm over the rocketing [...]

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Date: 11-Jul-2022

Cocoa farmers in Cross River State have applauded the free distribution of one hundred thousand improved variety seedlings to encourage young people to embrace farming. The farmer [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Jul-2022

The Nigerian AgriBusiness Group (NABG) and other stakeholders in the agriculture sector have discussed on how to deploy climate- smart agriculture to improve food productivity, cre [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Jul-2022

The Cross River State Government has pledged support for cocoa farmers, commenced distribution of improved cocoa seedlings in the Southern Senatorial District of the state. Flaggi [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 09-Jul-2022