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Nankhumwa Irked By Intended Sale of Maize to Zimbabwe, Pens President Chakwera
[Nyasa Times] Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Kondwani Nankhumwa, has written President Lazarus Chakwera asking him to intervene and stop the sale of maize by the Agriculture D [...]
AgricultureCountry: Malawi
Region: Africa
Date: 09-Jun-2022
Africa: The World's Worst Food Crisis for Decades - and What to Do About It
[IPS] London -- This is what happens when you starve. With no food, the body's metabolism slows down to preserve energy for vital organs. Hungry and weak, people often become fatig [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageRegion: Africa
Date: 09-Jun-2022
Africa: Act Now to End Food, Energy and Finance Crisis, Guterres Urges World Leaders
[UN News] Ripple effects from the war in Ukraine have generated a severe cost-of-living crisis which no country or community can escape, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 09-Jun-2022
Africa’s Agribusiness Development: ECOWAS advocates enabling policy, legal & economic environment
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has said agribusiness development in Africa requires the provision of an enabling policy, legal and economic environment. Sp [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 08-Jun-2022
Court Honours Legal Luminary And Advocate of Environmental Rights
By Salihu Ali, Abuja As Nigeria joined the rest of the world to commemorate World Environment Day, the Federal High Court of Nigeria honored a legal luminary who stood for environ [...]
Environment, Health & Safety Water/SanitationCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Jun-2022
Agency Renews Partnership With Morocco’s Bank Of Agriculture
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) and the Moroccan Bank of Agriculture, Credit Agricole Du Maroc (CAM) have signed a Memorandum of U [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Jun-2022
Experts Urge Nigeria to Harness $7trn Herbal Medicine Market
Experts have said Nigeria is endowed with over 10,000 species of medicinal plants, urging the country to harness the market potential of herbal medicine projected at seven trillion [...]
Healthcare and MedicineCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Jun-2022
Imota Rice Mill For Inauguration In 10 Weeks – Commissioner
The Lagos State Government has assured that the 32-metric tons per hour rice mill in Imota, Ikorodu division, will be ready for inauguration in 10 weeks. Ms Abisola Olusanya, the [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Jun-2022
How We're Feeding 2,000 Cameroonian Refugees - Host Community
[Daily Trust] Residents of Okpambe Bashu, a border community in Boki LGA of Cross River State, have said they raised money through contributions to feed the over 2,000 Cameroonians [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Jun-2022
Officials Call for an Effective Approach to School Feeding
[New Times] The Government's contribution to the school feeding programme is small compared to the current high food prices, and hence, should be increased in order to respond to t [...]
AgricultureCountry: Rwanda
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Jun-2022
Africa: Potential Solution to Africa's Food Crisis
[New Times] Food insecurity has long been a devastating problem that hundreds of millions of Africans have endured for decades. In the late 1960s, one million people died of starva [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageRegion: Africa
Date: 07-Jun-2022
Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Sudan Join Others As Countries With Acute Food Insecurity, Catastrophic Conditions
[This Day] The latest 'Hunger Hotspots of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) early warnings on acute food insecurity' report released ye [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Jun-2022
Africa: Blinken and Vilsack's Opening Remarks at a Virtual Roundtable Discussion on 'Food Security Issues Arising from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine'
[State Department] SECRETARY BLINKEN: Great, thank you. Thank you very much, and really, thanks to each and every one of you for joining us today. It's great to see so many colleag [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageRegion: Africa
Date: 07-Jun-2022
Traditional Farming Methods Shouldn't Be Disregarded
[New Frame] Research has found that new climate change resilience techniques must be based on a respect for indigenous knowledge if small-scale farmers are to take up these methods [...]
AgricultureCountry: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Jun-2022
Govt Declares Food Emergency As Grain Supplies Fall
[DW] Chad's transitional government has declared a food and nutrition emergency in the wake of the Ukraine war and a poor harvest. In neighboring Niger and much of the African cont [...]
AgricultureCountry: Chad
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Jun-2022
Locusts in Cameroon - From Pest to Seasonal Asset
[New Frame] People fleeing the wartorn north-west region are catching grasshoppers, plucking, spicing, cooking and selling them. The profit helps keep children in school and househ [...]
AgricultureCountry: Cameroon
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Jun-2022
Growing Concerns Over Food Wastage
[New Times] There is a need for increased capacity building and investments in reducing about 40 per cent of food that is going to waste across the country, researchers have said. [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: Rwanda
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Jun-2022
Abuja Environmental Protection Board tasks stakeholders
The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has attributed environmental challenges to human activities and tasked stakeholders w [...]
Environment, Health & SafetyCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Jun-2022
“We are in a climate crisis,” FAO warns
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned that the world is in a climate crisis and proffered agriculture as a part of the climate solution. W [...]
Environment, Health & SafetyCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Jun-2022
Africa: Ukraine - After 100 Days of War, UN Works to Free Up Vital Food and Fertilizer Exports
[UN News] One hundred days since the 24 February Russian invasion of Ukraine, UN humanitarians on Friday issued a fresh alert about the enormous needs there, as the Organization ha [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageRegion: Africa
Date: 06-Jun-2022
Prices of Soap, Cooking Oil Could Go Down in July, Says Ggoobi
[Nile Post] The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Ramadhan Ggoobi has assured Ugandans that the prices of some commodities, particu [...]
AgricultureCountry: Uganda
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Jun-2022
Why Maize, Paddy Prices in Taraba Hit Record Low in 4 Years
[Daily Trust] Prices of maize and paddy rice have crashed in Taraba again to an all-time low since the ban on importation of the commodities by the federal government became effect [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Jun-2022
Food Price Index Dipped in May - FAO
[This Day] World food commodity prices declined modestly in May for the second consecutive month, even as wheat and poultry prices pushed higher, the Food and Agriculture Organizat [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Jun-2022
Africa: African Countries Look to Japan to Navigate Wheat Shortages Caused by War in Ukraine
[RFI] African countries needing to fill the gap created by a lack of Russian and Ukrainian food imports must look outside the typical sphere of economic aid, says UN Assistant Secr [...]
AgricultureRegion: Africa
Date: 06-Jun-2022
UN Warns of Increased Risk of Famine Amid Acute Food Insecurity
[Shabelle] Severe drought is putting some areas in central and southern Somalia at an increased risk of famine as acute food insecurity, malnutrition and mortality worsen, the Unit [...]
AgricultureCountry: Somalia
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Jun-2022