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Tanzania: Tanzania Moves to End Sugar Shortage
[Independent (Kampala)] Dodoma, Tanzania -- Tanzanian authorities on Tuesday announced measures they were taking to end the shortage of sugar in the East African nation. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Somalia: Four Lessons From Past Experience of Dealing With Famine
[The Conversation Africa] Since 1990 the world's famines have been classified as small - with the glaring exceptions of Somalia in 1991-92 and 2010-12. Now the UN's World Food Prog [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Kenya: Kenya Has Lifted Its Ban On Genetically Modified Crops - the Risks and Opportunities
[The Conversation Africa] Kenya recently lifted a ban on the cultivation and importation of genetically modified crops amid the worst drought in 40 years and soaring food prices. T [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Kenya: 406 Acres of Ex-Tobacco Land Now Under Alternative Crops
[Capital FM] Migori -- A total of 406 acres of tobacco farms in Migori County have been transformed alternative crops by tobacco growers. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 26-Oct-2022
Tanzania: Tanzania Eyes Sugar Self Sufficiency
[Daily News] Dodoma -- THE government has said that importing sugar from outside the country will be history come 2025/2026, expressing optimism that at that time, the country expe [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 26-Oct-2022
Liberia: Senate Grills Commerce Minister On Who Misinformed the President On Rice Availability Despite Acute Shortage
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Senate on Tuesday hosted the Minister of Commerce Mawine G. Diggs to answer questions about the shortage of the country's staple food, rice and wh [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 26-Oct-2022
200 students, 50 veterinarians to be trained on animal disease emergency response
Tribune Online 200 students, 50 veterinarians to be trained on animal disease emergency response About 200 veterinary students and 50 veterinarians are expected to be trained on C [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
CSDevNet sensitises Ondo farmers, forest stakeholders on climate change adaptation
Tribune Online CSDevNet sensitises Ondo farmers, forest stakeholders on climate change adaptation As part of efforts to ensure that climate change does not affect farming and for [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
Ondo govt urges farmers to repay loans
Tribune Online Ondo govt urges farmers to repay loans The Ondo State government has called on farmers across the local government areas of the state to repay the agricultural loan [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
Fintech company Tingo, AFAN sign agreement to provide gadgets, inputs to 20 million farmers
Tribune Online Fintech company Tingo, AFAN sign agreement to provide gadgets, inputs to 20 million farmers An Agri-Fintech Company, Tingo Mobile has entered into a Memorandum of A [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
Olam Agri launches Seeds for the Future Foundation, education grant in Nigeria
Tribune Online Olam Agri launches Seeds for the Future Foundation, education grant in Nigeria Olam Agri, a agribusiness company with focus on food, feed, and fibre and an operatin [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
How OYSADA is broadening Oyo State economy
Tribune Online How OYSADA is broadening Oyo State economy Progressive leaders, worldwide, use the state’s comparative advantage to grow their economy. It is, therefore, little w [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
Senator Egwu Empowers Over 400 Ebonyi State Farmers
Moses Nwite, Abakaliki The Senator representing Ebonyi State North Senatorial Zone, Dr Sam Egwu has empowered over four hundred constituents by organising a three-day programme on [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
Group Calls On Business Organization To Support Flood Victims
Chinwe Onuigbo, Awka Anambra State Civil Society Network, ACSONET, a foremost citizen and Non State Actors stakeholders group, has implored Business organizations to wake up to the [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
Nigerian Government launches Special Agro-industrial Processing Zones
The Federal Government alongside the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has launche [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
Kenya: Dorcas Rigathi Says Govt to Support Sinking of Boreholes to Address Famine
[Capital FM] Laikipia -- The national government in conjunction with Laikipia county and donors is set construct six boreholes at Laikipia's Solio Settlement Scheme in a bid to sup [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
East Africa: Drought Threatens Millions With Starvation
[DW] A famine is increasingly likely in East Africa as rains fail for the fourth consecutive year. Violent conflicts in the Horn of Africa are undermining efforts to help the popul [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
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