In line with the federal government’s agricultural policy, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has commenced training of Agricultural Extension Agents in En [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 25-Oct-2021

More than 200 Ghanaian farmers have expressed their readiness to grow Genetically Modified (GM) cowpea, Ghana’s first genetically modified food crop. The cowpea variety, w [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 25-Oct-2021

[The Herald] Three thousand youths in Makoni District have been assisted by Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa to secure tractors and tilla [...]

Country: Zimbabwe

Region: Africa

Date: 25-Oct-2021

[IPS] Washington DC -- The global food system is facing more demands from society than ever before in modern times - and rightly so. [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 25-Oct-2021

[Seychelles News Agency] Enterprise Seychelles Agency will put more emphasis on creating opportunities for entrepreneurs in the tourism, fisheries and agricultural sectors while al [...]

Country: Seychelles

Region: Africa

Date: 25-Oct-2021

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Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 25-Oct-2021

As part of efforts to improve food security, the Lagos State government has revealed plans to procure 14 brand new tractors and ancillary equipment for farmers under the “Eko Agr [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 25-Oct-2021

The Federal Government says it has planted  6,248,240 trees between 2019 and the second quarters of 2021. Minister of State for Environment, Chief Sharon Ikeazor, said this [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 25-Oct-2021

The Ogun state government has announced its plans to commence palliative works on the deplorable Sango-Ota-Joju Road. The work determined to bring succour to the residents and mot [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 24-Oct-2021

[African Arguments] AGRA acknowledges the need for "a mix of approaches from agroecology to the latest crop and soil science", but agroecology is the latest science. [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 24-Oct-2021

[Citizen] Nzega -- Rehabilitation of 20 irrigation schemes in Nzega District, Tabora Region, will significantly improve food production, transform farmer's incomes and turn the dis [...]

Country: Tanzania

Region: Africa

Date: 24-Oct-2021

[Egypt Online] President Abdel Fattah El Sisi gave directives to continue taking strict measures against encroachments on agricultural lands. [...]

Country: Egypt

Region: Africa

Date: 24-Oct-2021

Agriculture and Climate Change Specialist at Africa Rice Centre, Dr. Elliott Dossou-Yovo was conferred the 2021 Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application.   Roc [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 23-Oct-2021

Guinness Ghana Breweries Plc recorded an impressive performance in the year ended 30 June 2021, despite the grim outlook of the beverages industry due to the Covid-19 pandemic. [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 23-Oct-2021

[VOA] Yaounde -- The U.N.'s World Food Program says thousands of destitute people in Cameroon's crisis-prone western regions are going hungry and their situations may become worse [...]

Country: Cameroon

Region: Africa

Date: 23-Oct-2021

The zeroing of Price Stabilisation and Recovery Levies (PSRL) is set to commence on November 1. According to the National Petroleum Authority, this follows directives from t [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Oct-2021

Rand Merchant Bank’s (RMB) Where to Invest in Africa 2021 ranks Ghana in sixth place this year across the continent. RMB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Fi [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Oct-2021

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Mwithini -- Kenya's farmers have built sand dams to hold onto scarce river water - but solar-power water pumps are making access hugely easier [...]

Country: Kenya

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Oct-2021

[Namibian] THE United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has advised the world to transform agrifood systems and make them more resilient to the effects of climate ch [...]

Country: Namibia

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Oct-2021

[Cameroon Tribune] The remark was made by the World Food Programme Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Christopher Nikoi, during an audience with Minister Mbella Mbella [...]

Country: Cameroon

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Oct-2021

[UN News] More than one million people in southern Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become the first famine caused by climate change, according to [...]

Country: Madagascar

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Oct-2021

[Premium Times] By intentionally growing crops among trees in a way that each crop does not inhibit the growth of the other, farmers in the Nigerian capital promote sustainable eco [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Oct-2021

[Govt of SA] Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment notes concerns about reduction in West Coast Rock Lobster total allowable catch [...]

Country: South Africa

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Oct-2021

[SAnews.gov.za] The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has noted the concerns raised by the fishing communities regarding the reduction in the West Coast Rock Lo [...]

Country: South Africa

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Oct-2021

[Daily Maverick] Barely a week after I dried the peels of the last of the season's oranges, blossoms appeared to herald the next harvest. The circle of life, in orange. [...]

Country: South Africa

Region: Africa

Date: 22-Oct-2021