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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
Monkeypox: Nigerian Government bans sale, consumption of bushmeat
The Nigerian Government has banned the sale and consumption of bushmeat to avoid a “spillover” of monkeypox in Nigeria. (Bushmeat is meat from wildlife species that are hunted [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Nigeria reaffirms commitment to environment conservation
The Nigerian government has reaffirmed commitment towards promoting and boosting environmental conservation in the country. This the government said would help the sustainability o [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
World Environment Day: Anambra targets one million trees
Anambra State Government says it will plant no fewer than one million trees to promote aforestation revolution and check environmental degradation currently ravaging the state. The [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Africa: Strengthening Resilience in Nutrition and Food Security in Africa
[Africa Renewal] Strengthening resilience in nutrition and food security in Africa; UN Secretary-General's remarks at the Africa Dialogue Series 2022 [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Somalia: Grim Drought Hits More Than Seven Million
[Africa Renewal] Accompanying Somalia's newly-appointed drought envoy on his first field visit, the United Nations' top humanitarian official for the Horn of Africa country warned [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Egypt: Agriculture Minister, Eib Official Discuss Future Projects
[Egypt Online] Agriculture Minister El Sayyed el Quseir discussed on Friday 03/06/2022 with Lars Anwandter, senior loan officer at the European Investment Bank (EIB) future project [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Kenya: Locals in Arid North Face Climate Change, Hunger and Poverty
[IPS] Marsabit -- Darkuale Parsanti and his wife Mary Rampe are counting their losses: One by one, they have seen their livestock wiped out. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Worst Drought Threatens 'Deadly Consequences' for Women
[UN News] Women and girls face "deadly consequences" in the Somali region of Ethiopia due to the worst drought conditions for forty years, according to the United Nations Populatio [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Ethiopia: FAO Working to Benefit 620,000 Households With Agricultural Inputs in Northern Ethiopia
[ENA] Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said it is working to benefit 620,000 households in conflict affected areas of northern Ethiopia by providing a [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Tunisia: Grain - Tunisian Government Seeks to Achieve Self-Sufficiency in Durum Wheat
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Tunisian government is seeking, as part of its reform programme to achieve self-sufficiency in durum wheat by increasing the profitabili [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022