[Daily Maverick] 'Unlimited development is detrimental to the environment and the destruction of the environment is detrimental to development.' - Constitutional Court [...]

Country: South Africa

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Mar-2022

The Lagos Lagos State Real Estate Regulatory Authority, LASRERA, is set to begin the enforcement of its newly signed Law. The law aimed at holding Property Developers, individuals [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 05-Mar-2022

Nigerians must return to agriculture, according to President Muhammadu Buhari, if the country is to become self-sufficient. Buhari recently stated that agriculture, if properly ma [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 05-Mar-2022

Tunde Akanbi, Ilorin The Kwara State Government has listed some conditions to allow fish farmers within the precincts of the Asa Dam to continue there, with Ministry of Water Reso [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 05-Mar-2022

[GroundUp] The pair say their garden has become a hub for locals, with many community meetings now held there [...]

Country: South Africa

Region: Africa

Date: 05-Mar-2022

[The Conversation Africa] Russia is one of the major players in global agricultural markets. The country is a significant exporter of grains, and also integrated into global agricu [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 05-Mar-2022

[Nyasa Times] Government fears this year the country will experience maize production reduction by 14 percentage. [...]

Country: Malawi

Region: Africa

Date: 05-Mar-2022

[The Exchange] Banana and plantain are important staple foods in many developing countries, especially in Africa [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 05-Mar-2022

A Non Govermental Organisation, Fold for Liberal Age Charity Initiative (Folliage) in collaboration with the Ondo State government, has expressed its readiness to embark on tree pl [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Mar-2022

Nigeria’s leading food and agro-allied company, Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN), is set to tighten its grip on the country’s flour milling market as it prepares to acquire a major [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Mar-2022

Farmers in the country are hopeful of improved cowpea farming during this year’s farming season because of the new cowpea varieties just released by Joseph Sarwuan Tarka Universi [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Mar-2022

Minister of State for Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, who led the Nigerian delegation to the resumed Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2) in Nairobi, Kenya, has disclo [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Mar-2022

The Federal Government, in its bid to address deforestation in the country has distributed cooking gas cylinders to smallholder women farmers in the North Central Geopolitical Zone [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Mar-2022

[Daily Trust] The Flour Milling Association of Nigeria (FMAN) has trained over 5,000 wheat farmers on the use of modern technology to enhance production. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Mar-2022

[Ghanaian Times] THE Israeli Trade and Economic Mission in Ghana yesterday organised a stakeholder's forum in Accra to discuss ways of improving soil fertility through the adoption [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Mar-2022

Tribune Online Oyo, Ogun, other farmers to earn €9.7m annually from Netherlands funded HortiNigeria project The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria has award [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

The National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) Umudike, Abia State, has released additional root crop varieties for Nigerian farmers. A director at NRCRI, Godwin Asumugha, des [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

The Nigerian government has reiterated its commitments to restore 4million hectares of its degraded land forest and landscape. This is inline with its commitment to the Africa For [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

UN Women has called on Nigeria’s Ministry of Environment to expedite action on the implementation of its gender action, to ensure “improved gender equality in climate change re [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

MTN Ghana is on track to fulfill its planned spend of USD 1 billion on Network Infrastructure and Information Systems (NIIS) by 2025. This planned expenditure will go a lon [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

[Dabanga] El Fasher -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has partially resumed operations in North Darfur after more than a month's suspension following a series of att [...]

Country: Sudan

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

The British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation has commenced the third cohort of its Farmers for the Future (F4F) grant project. The programme, which is aimed at empowering you [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

Mikah Adamu, acting president of the National Ginger Association of Nigeria (NGAN), has called on the federal government to create a level-playing ground for stakeholders, through [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

The Lagos State government is looking ahead towards harnessing the useful technologies that can increase food yields in the most sustainable ways for its teeming population. To ac [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022

[New Times] There is hope that the $120.5 million irrigation project Kirehe district, which has stalled for years could come to life. [...]

Country: Rwanda

Region: Africa

Date: 03-Mar-2022