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Nigeria: World Food Day - Need for Incentivizing Smallholder Farmers Towards Sustaining Nigeria's Food System
[Vanguard] The World Food Day (WFD),16th October, is celebrated annually worldwide to commemorate the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO) in 1945. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 08-Oct-2021
Wheat Production Declines as famers decries lack of interventions
For many years wheat production has been stagnant and the challenges before its farmers are many. Although President Muhammadu Buhari launched the rice and wheat Anchor Borrower P [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 08-Oct-2021
Experts advise on adequate mobilisation of soil nutrients
Prof. Lateef Taiwo, a soil scientist at the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Ibadan, have advised farmers to do planting to favour adequate mobilisation [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 08-Oct-2021
Smart agriculture :How Nigerian farmers are fighting climate change
Orija Oladimeji has been incurring huge post-harvest losses due to the unpredictable nature of the “hoe and cutlass” mode of farming he inherited from his parents. His story ch [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 08-Oct-2021
We need to set standards for Kenkey – GSA Director-General
The Director-General of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has revealed that the country does not have a set standard for Kenkey, one of the most cherished food for the Ga people, [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 08-Oct-2021
climate change: DRC’s plan to lift logging ban in Congo forest
There are concerns that the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is considering lifting a long-standing ban on the expansion of industrial logging in its rainf [...]
Country: DR Congo
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Oct-2021
Africa seeks creative solutions to curb plastic usage
The Afri-Plastics Challenge has now launched its second strand, Creating Solutions. This Strand invites individuals or organisations with a new or early-stage idea that seeks to re [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Oct-2021
Governor advocates cattle movement restriction from Sahel to other African regions
Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State has advocated for a permanent framework to limit the movement of cattle from the Sahel to other regions in Africa. Mr Bagudu was speakin [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Oct-2021
Fishermen adopt new strategies as climate change bites harder
Fishermen in Kpata, Lokoja Local Government Area of Kogi State, Abdullahi Gimba depends on the resources of the River Niger to provide for his two wives and 13 children. It is how [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Oct-2021
Sub-Saharan Africa exits recession in 2021 but recovery still vulnerable – World Bank
Sub-Saharan Africa is set to emerge from the 2020 recession sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic with growth expected to expand by 3.3% in 2021. This is 1% higher than the April [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Oct-2021
Why Kenya's Bid to Host 2025 World Championships Looks Promising
The ongoing construction of the Expressway and the Jamhuri Sports Complex are some of the key factors Kenya has used in their effort to win the bid to host the 2025 World Athletics [...]
Country: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Oct-2021
Kenya: Failed, and Now Heavy, Rains Spell Doom for Maize Output
[Nation] Maize production in the North Rift region is projected to drop by five million bags this season -- from 21 million to 16 million bags. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Oct-2021
Rwanda: Fishing Activity Resumes in Lake Kivu
[New Times] The Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources has given the green light to resumption of fishing activity in Lake Kivu for a period of four months. [...]
Agriculture FisheryCountry: Rwanda
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Oct-2021
Kenya: Save Poultry Sector, Farmers Group Tell CS Munya
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Poultry Farmers in Kenya are blaming Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya for poor productivity in the sector. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Oct-2021
FG, IFAD score Ogun VCDP-AF implementation high
Tribune OnlineFG, IFAD score Ogun VCDP-AF implementation high OGUN State Government has received commendation for the utilisation of the mechanised advantage under the Federal G [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 05-Oct-2021
Ondo govt appreciates NEMA for distributing agricultual inputs to farmers affected by flood
Tribune OnlineOndo govt appreciates NEMA for distributing agricultual inputs to farmers affected by flood THE National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has distributed inputs [...]
Agricultural Tools/Equipments AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 05-Oct-2021
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 05-Oct-2021
7,000 farmers Benefit From CBN Anchor Borrowers In Ogun
The Ogun State government says over 7,000 youths have so far been empowered by the Central Bank’s Anchor Borrowers’ agricultural programme through the Cassava Intervention Proj [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 05-Oct-2021
Refugee Commission launches Project Zero Hunger
Rahila Lassa, Abuja The National Commission for Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria has taken a step further to alleviate the level of hunger amongst t [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Oct-2021
Jigawa Farmers Struggle To Survive Long Dry Spell
In recent years, farmers in Nigeria have witnessed low and unpredictable rainfall variations. This, coupled with other agronomic challenges, has posed serious problems to the co [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Oct-2021
OFAB To Crash Price Of Beans In 2022
The Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology in Nigeria (OFAB) has assured Nigerians that by the 2022 farming season, the prices of food crops, especially beans, will crash. Speak [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Oct-2021
NCPB Staring At Empty Warehousing Space With No Grain to Handle
Smallholder farmers in Kenya are yet to embrace the Warehouse Receipt System more than one year after it was unveiled. [...]
Country: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Oct-2021
Tomato Industry In Limbo As FG, CBN Interventions Fail
In 2017, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) announced a new National Tomato Policy. FEC also increased the import duty from 5 to 50 per cent, which was meant to encourage processo [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
Price Of Soya Beans May Rise Further, Farmers Warn
The Soya Beans Farmers Association of Nigeria (SOFAN) has raised an alarm that the activities of bandits across the country, especially in the North West, have prevented their memb [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
FAO seeks urgent restoration of Africa’s degraded landscape
The first-ever stocktake of Africa’s forests and landscapes released on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 finds slow progress in repairing Africa’s degraded lands, urging effo [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021