[Unicef] The sharp increase of the number of malnourished children in the recent years requires to act urgently not only to save lives, but also to prevent children from becoming m [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[New Dawn] The looming global food crisis appears to have already hit Liberia in the wake of growing scarcity of the nation's staple rice, on the local market despite the governmen [...]

Country: Liberia

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[This Day] International aid agencies yesterday raised the alarm that the West African sub-region was currently facing its worst food crisis in a decade, with 27 million people cur [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[DW] Africa's rapidly developing cannabis industry could soon supply the entire world. Uganda is already cultivating medical cannabis for the German pharmaceutical market. [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[Daily Trust] Towards enhancing agriculture and the creation of jobs, Dangote Fertiliser Limited is set to train over one million farmers in the next three years. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 05-Apr-2022

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has disbursed N948 billion to 4, 478, 381 smallholder farmers under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) across the country.     T [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Yusuf Maina Bukar as the Director-General of National Agency for the Great Green Wall, an agency under th [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) says it is deeply concerned about the food security situation in Ukraine and has warned of potential far-reaching [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[New Frame] As the curtain fell on the Afcon, many of Cameroon's citizens went back to what was already an everyday struggle to survive. In the end the showpiece achieved - and mea [...]

Country: Cameroon

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Rio de Janeiro/Chennai/Durban -- As the conflict enters its second month, its effects are being felt by farmers around the globe - but it could also be [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[VOA] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- Aid convoys led by the U.N.'s World Food Program (WPF) have entered Ethiopian territory controlled by Tigrayan rebels for the first time since Decemb [...]

Country: Ethiopia

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[New Republic] The Government of Liberia has rejected claims of a shortage of Liberia's staple [rice] and has informed the general public that there is absolutely no shortage of ri [...]

Country: Liberia

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[New Times] Rwanda is setting up a national artificial insemination (AI) centre expected to help increase the country's cattle production in terms of milk and beef yields. [...]

Country: Rwanda

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[Govt of SA] The North West Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has placed five farms on quarantine and forward traced farms on precautionary quarantine following Foot [...]

Country: South Africa

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[RFI] Malawi -- Faced with the rising cost of fertiliser and effects of climate change, farmers in Malawi are being encouraged to diversify their crops to become less dependent on [...]

Country: Malawi

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[DW] Millions of people in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia face starvation due to delayed rains and a lackluster growing season. Aid organizations warn of a "catastrophe" if urgent ac [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 02-Apr-2022

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Reshaping investment away from deforestation is tough - but these changes could help [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 01-Apr-2022

[SciDev.Net] Nairobi -- Malaria has become more common in African villages with irrigated rice fields in the last 20 years, highlighting the need for improved cultivation methods t [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 01-Apr-2022

[Ghanaian Times] The government, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), and the European Union (EU) have signed ?44.7 million Agriculture Water Management Project to suppor [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 01-Apr-2022

[Ghanaian Times] Kumasi -- The Israeli government has stressed its commitment to help address fertilizer challenges facing Ghana's agriculture. [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 01-Apr-2022

[New Era] Residents hailing from Gainachas, Tses, Kutenhos and Berseba received goats, brick making machines, cement and poultry farming equipment worth more than N$100 000 from th [...]

Country: Namibia

Region: Africa

Date: 01-Apr-2022

[Shabait] Barentu, 31 March 2022 - The Governor of the Gash Barka Region, Ambassador Mahmud Ali Hiruy stated that strong effort is being exerted in cooperation with government inst [...]

Country: Eritrea

Region: Africa

Date: 01-Apr-2022

The exercise is aimed the regenerating the state's forests and biodiversity. The post Nasarawa govt to plant 5 million trees before end 2023 appeared first on Premium Times Nigeri [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 31-Mar-2022

[The Conversation Africa] Russia's war on Ukraine is disrupting global grain supplies. Restrictions on navigation in the Azov Sea and the closure of ports have interrupted grain sh [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 31-Mar-2022

[This Day] The President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has estimated that about 250 million men, women and children across the continent go on [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 31-Mar-2022