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Kenya: Coffee Farmers in Mt Kenya Seek Direct Access to Buyers
[Capital FM] Nyeri -- Coffee farmers in the Mt Kenya region want the Kenya Kwanza government to open up marketing of the crop through the scrapping of the Nairobi coffee exchange a [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Mar-2023
How Sir EJ Farms is boosting employment, local content in Nigeria
Tribune Online How Sir EJ Farms is boosting employment, local content in Nigeria Sir Ej, is the founder, chairman, and CEO of SIR EJ FARMS ENTERPRISE with the Trading Name SIR EJ F [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Mar-2023
Stakeholder Disapproves Endangering Pattern of Forest Consumption In Nigeria
The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Bayelsa State Governor on Tourism has called for an end to the unsustainable consumption and production patterns that jeopardise Ecotourism in [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Mar-2023
Stakeholders Dialogue On Ways To Boost Nigeria’s Biodiversity Projection
Stakeholders have met to brainstorm and come up with strategic plans that could help drive policy for biodiversity projection in coaster and marine environment in Nigeria. At a on [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Mar-2023
Senegal: Navigating Water Tenure in Senegal
[FAO] Levelling the playing field on access to a vital resource [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Mar-2023
Namibia: Dumped Manganese Removed
[Namibian] THE manganese dumped on the Keetmanshoop to Lüderitz road in the vicinity of farm Brakwater was removed on Tuesday. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Mar-2023
Namibia: Hungry People Grab Food At Independence Celebration
[Namibian] CHAOS ensued at yesterday's 33rd Independence Day anniversary at Outapi in the Omusati region as some people grabbed food initially meant for Very Very Important Persons [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Mar-2023
Rwanda: Improved Water Use Keeping Malnutrition at Bay, But Farmers Need Support
[New Times] The world marks World Water Day on March 22 amid growing calls for the protection and conservation of water sources to mitigate desertification. Water is life, and nowh [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Mar-2023
Gambia: FAO, Partners Present Lab Worth D84 Million to NEA
[The Point] The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) in collaboration with the Global Environmental Fund (GEF) on Monday handed over a well-upgraded and equipped laboratory to [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Mar-2023
Rwanda: How Women Are Championing Nutrition Through Agribusiness
[New Times] Adeline Umukunzi stands in a field in Musanze District picking nutritious mushrooms from inside a small covered structure. The structure provides an environment with mo [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Mar-2023
Rwanda: Kayonza - Coffee Growing Boosts Financial Freedom for Women
[New Times] A cooperative of 157 women and three men in Rukara sector, Kayonza District, has found financial success by embracing coffee growing instead of subsistence farming. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Mar-2023
Kenya: Take a Break From Ugali, Consume Rice, Potatoes - Linturi to Kenyans on Maize Shortage
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenyans have been implored to consume other foodstuffs away from maize due to the current shortage being witnessed across the world. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Mar-2023
Malawi: Food Prices Skyrocket As Cost of Cyclone Freddy Becomes Evident in Malawi
[WFP] Blantyre -- Prices of staple foods are soaring in Malawi, ten days after Tropical Cyclone Freddy made its second passage over the southern African country, worsening levels o [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Mar-2023
Bayelsa government calls for end to forest destruction
The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Bayelsa State Governor on Tourism, Dr. Piriye Kiyaramo has called for an end to the unsustainable consumption and production patterns that jeo [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 22-Mar-2023
Cabinet okays revised Agricultural Seed Policy
The Federal Executive Council has approved a revised National Agricultural Seed Policy for Nigeria. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammed Mahmood, revealed this t [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 22-Mar-2023
Kenya: President Ruto to Visit Kisii, Nyamira Counties With Basket of Goodies
[Capital FM] Kisii -- President William Ruto is set to make his maiden three-day visit to Gusii region since he was elected in August last year and launch several projects and tour [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 22-Mar-2023
Kenya: Entrepreneur Using Organic Microbes to Unlock Hidden Nutrients in Dairy Feeds
[IPS] Nakuru, Kenya -- Using naturally occurring microbes, a Kenyan entrepreneur has developed a molasses-based supplement that pre-ferments animal feeds to unlock all the necessar [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 22-Mar-2023
Africa: Millions of Women Starving as They Eat Least and Eat Last #AfricaClimateCrisis
[allAfrica] On International Women's Day, Human Rights Watch (HRW) hosted a Twitter Space meeting looking at the impact of food scarcity on women. Eating Last and Eating Least: The [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 22-Mar-2023
Early rainfall: farmers begin yam cultivation
Farmers in Benue, Niger, Nasarawa, Taraba, and other states have started preparing their fields for cultivation with the start of the first rain. According to Mrs. Scholarstica Amu [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 22-Mar-2023
Kebbi gov’t Launches Mega Flour Mill
The Kebbi State Government has launched its mega flour mill at the Bulasa Industrial Estate near the state capital, Birnin Kebbi, in order to improve the agricultural value chain. [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 22-Mar-2023
Flooding: NEMA, Ekiti government to set up disaster committee
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), says there is need to set up a local disaster management committee to strengthen grassroots response to disasters. Director General [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 22-Mar-2023
NiMet predicts 3-day sunshine, cloudiness from Wednesday
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted sunshine and cloudiness from Wednesday to Friday across the country. NiMet’s weather outlook, released on Tuesday in Abuj [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 22-Mar-2023
Ethiopia: Amid Soaring Price and Chronic Shortage, Ethiopia's Staple Grain Becomes Latest Political Boiling Point
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Ethiopia's capital city Addis Abeba is hit by unprecedented price hike coupled with chronic shortage of Teff, Ethiopia's staple grain. But for polit [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 22-Mar-2023
Ghana: Farmers in Ghana Can't Predict Rainfall Anymore, Changing How They Work #AfricaClimateCrisis
[The Conversation Africa] Climate change affects all spheres of life, particularly those aspects that depend on the environment. Farming communities are a case in point. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 22-Mar-2023
Kenya: Pastoralists Suffer Despite Millions of Dollars Used to Protect Them From Drought - What Went Wrong?
[The Conversation Africa] Across the arid landscape of northern Kenya, roadside signs proclaim projects aimed at creating "resilience" among pastoralist communities. This is a regi [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 22-Mar-2023