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Africa: New FAO Report Highlights Urgent Need to Restore Africa's Degraded Landscape
[New Dawn] The first-ever stocktake of Africa's forests and landscapes, which was released on Wednesday finds slow progress in repairing Africa's degraded lands and urges ramped up [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 01-Oct-2021
Subsidy Improves Omusati Food Production
[New Era] The ministry of agriculture, water and land reform said financial subsidies availed to farmers in Omusati region have improved the farmers' production capacity and quanti [...]
AgricultureCountry: Namibia
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
Soil Enrichment Programme Launched in Uzumba
[The Herald] The Uzumba Soil Enrichment Agricultural Show (UDSEAS) officially launched a soil neutralisation and enrichment mixture programme at Zvauya Village in Ward 11, on Frida [...]
Country: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
Zimbabwe: President Mnangagwa Opens Agricultural Show
[The Herald] GOVERNMENT will continue supporting the Agriculture Sector as it is key not only to food security but the realisation of Vision 2030 to be an upper-middle-class econom [...]
AgricultureCountry: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Date: 01-Oct-2021
South Africa: South African Restaurants and Vineyards Are Among the Top 100 in the World
[Daily Maverick] A mere three years since opening, FYN in Cape Town has cracked a new place in the World's 50 Best Restaurants 100 to 51 list. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 01-Oct-2021
IFAD commends Kogi Agricultural Value-Chain Development Programme implementation
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has commended Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi State for the progress it’s made in its Agricultural Value Chain Develo [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Sep-2021
NALDA commission’s second integrated Farm
Ene Okwanihe, Abuja The President of Nigerian Senate, Senator Ahmed Lawan has commissioned the National Agricultural Land Development Authority’s (NALDA) second integrated [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 27-Sep-2021
Preserving biodiversity: Effective, lasting solutions based on science and innovation
The agri-food sector is a key player in the management of biodiversity as well as its custodian, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said in his opening remarks at the 18th Regular Sess [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Sep-2021
Midlands Garden Project Transforms Lives
[The Herald] A vegetable farming venture has transformed the lives of more than 200 elderly women and their families in Nembudziya, Gokwe district in Midlands and has addressed foo [...]
AgricultureCountry: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Date: 27-Sep-2021
Muzarabani Tomato Project Flourishes
[The Herald] Small-scale farmers in Muzarabani are utilising portions of land to maximise horticultural production, mainly focusing on tomatoes to earn extra income following a suc [...]
AgricultureCountry: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Date: 27-Sep-2021
FAD commends Kogi Agricultural Value-Chain Development Programme implementation
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has commended Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi State for the progress it’s made in its Agricultural Value Chain Develop [...]
Education/Training AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 27-Sep-2021
AfDB to modernise Africa’s aging hydropower stations
The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved $1 million grant for the modernisation of Africa’s aging hydropower fleet. Ac [...]
Energy/PowerCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 27-Sep-2021
Nigeria boost livestock production with incentives for farmers
As part of efforts to boost livestock production in the country, the Federal Government has said it will provide incentives to farmers to help reduce the high cost of livestock fee [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 27-Sep-2021
NIRSAL empowers farmers to deepen Cotton, beans, ginger exports
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL Plc) says it has empowered farmers and value chain actors across the country to improve productio [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 27-Sep-2021
Ethiopia: KOICA Funds New FAO Project to Improve Post-Harvest Management
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Project will build the capacities of stakeholders and promote post-harvest technologies for maize, wheat, honey, and milk. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ethiopia
Region: Africa
Date: 27-Sep-2021
Africa: The UN Food Systems Summit - Food Processing, Consumption, Supply Chain, Loss and Waste
[IPS] Lethbridge -- Food processing extends shelf-life and can transforms raw food into attractive, marketable products. It can also prevent contamination. The transformation can i [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 26-Sep-2021
Rice Farmers Need Finance for New Technologies, but Banks Don't Trust Them
[The Conversation Africa] New farming technologies have the potential to improve livelihoods and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Better seed varieties, soil fertility practice [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 26-Sep-2021
National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme in limbo – Farmers tell GARDJA
Government’s National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme risks total collapse following an admission by some supervisors and cocoa farmers that the Programme is crumpling and needs t [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 25-Sep-2021
Smallholder farmers are pivotal to transforming global food systems – Experts tell UN Summit
Proposals to end world hunger that will emerge from today’s historic United Nations Food Systems Summit will only succeed if smallholder farmers are made the central pivot, some [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 24-Sep-2021
NEMA Distributes Agricultural Inputs To 2,463 Farmers In Ogun
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has distributed agricultural inputs on behalf of the federal government to no fewer than 2,463 farmers in Ogun State, as a result of [...]
Agricultural Tools/Equipments AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 24-Sep-2021
FACAN Disburses Cashew Seedlings, Trains Farmers in Edo
The Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria (FACAN), Edo State Chapter, has distributed 150,000 free cashew seedlings to farmers in Edo State. Over 3000 hectar [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 24-Sep-2021
With Increased Investments, Nigeria Can Do More in Agriculture – president Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that with increased investments in the agriculture sector, particularly in the areas of infrastructure, Nigeria can produce more food. The Presi [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 24-Sep-2021
Bumper harvest excites Benue Farmers
Yam farmers in Benue State are excited over bumper harvest across most locations in the 23 local government areas of the state, this season. However, despite the bountiful harvest [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 24-Sep-2021
Excitement as New Grains Arrive in Kano Dawanau Market
As farmers across the country begin harvest, various farm produce have started flooding the markets, with slight effects on their prices. A visit to the popular Dawanau grain mark [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 24-Sep-2021
Nigerian government pledges support to livestock business
ENE OKWANIHE, ABUJA The Nigerian government says it is committed to providing incentives and needed support to feed millers and agribusiness companies in the country to ameliorat [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 24-Sep-2021