[Daily News] MORE than 250 pepper farmers have been trained in organic farming to boost their productivity and increase income. [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 15-Jul-2022

[The Conversation Africa] The world's food systems have developed in a way that is not serving health and sustainability. [...]

Country: South Africa

Region: Africa

Date: 15-Jul-2022

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 jumps in productio [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 14-Jul-2022

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar has said that the Ministry through the Department of Veterinary and Pest Control Services would supp [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 14-Jul-2022

At least 6,000 crop and livestock farmers in Kwara State have benefited from the first round of government and World Bank-enabled support along agricultural value chains. According [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 14-Jul-2022

[IPS] Rome -- This is an op-ed by Mario Lubetkin, FAO Assistant Director-General and designated FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean (1 August 2022) [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 14-Jul-2022

[Ghanaian Times] Nearly 10 years of Ghana's efforts to develop a pest-resistant cowpea variety--Pod Borer Resistant (PBR) cowpea, which is a product of Genetically Modified Organis [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 14-Jul-2022

[Ghanaian Times] Biotechnology remains one of the most innovative technologies ever developed in the 20th Century, and it holds more promise in the 21st Century with the emergence [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 14-Jul-2022

[This Day] Representatives and leaders of the Artisan Fishermen Association of Nigeria (AFAN) who are victims of the Shell Bonga Oil Spill of 2011, yesterday called on President Mu [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 14-Jul-2022

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

Region: N/A

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 [...]

Region: N/A

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 [...]

Region: N/A

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

Region: N/A

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

Region: N/A

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 [...]

Region: N/A

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 [...]

Region: N/A

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 [...]

Region: N/A

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 [...]

Region: N/A

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 [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 12-Jul-2022

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

Region: N/A

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 [...]

Region: N/A

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 [...]

Region: N/A

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 [...]

Region: N/A

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

Region: N/A

Date: 11-Jul-2022