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Nigeria Highlights Achievements In Tackling Climate Change
President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Least Development Countries (LDCs) to emulate Nigeria’s issuance of two Sovereign Green Bonds that raised over N30 billion for the pur [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 08-Mar-2023
Agric ministry honours staff for outstanding performances
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development ( FMARD), has recognised and honoured 55 members of its staff for their outstanding performances in various fields of impl [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 08-Mar-2023
Ekit State Partners with RIFAN to increase Rice Production
The Ekiti state government has partner with Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) to increase rice production. This was by the special adviser to the governor on agriculture, [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 08-Mar-2023
We Will Make Kwara Food Secure, says Gov. AbdulRazaq
The Kwara State Government says it is building a food-secure state, where farmers will be self-reliant, empowered and prosperous. The state Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq express [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 08-Mar-2023
Liberia: Death Trap On Gbapolu Road
[New Republic] ...As Residents of Baboon Town Raise Alarm [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 08-Mar-2023
South Africa: Greenpeace Africa Activists Disrupt Mantashe's Address at Africa Energy Indaba
[Greenpeace] Cape Town -- Today, Greenpeace Africa activists disrupted Minister Gwede Mantashe's opening address at the Africa Energy Indaba at the Cape Town International Conventi [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 08-Mar-2023
Mozambique: Do 90% of Mozambicans Eat Three Meals a Day?
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican Agriculture Minister Celso Correia has outraged opposition parties, and much of civil society, with a claim that 90 per cent of Mozambicans are eating th [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 08-Mar-2023
Mozambique: Minister's Food Claims Rejected As 'Impossible'
[AIM] Maputo -- One of Mozambique's most prominent non-governmental organisations, the Community Development Foundation (FDC), has described as "impossible' the claim by Agricultur [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 08-Mar-2023
Africa: UN Conference Weighs Building Resilient Agrifood Systems in the Face of Risk and Uncertainty
[UN News] Government leaders and experts attending the Fifth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDC5) and weighing the main challenges facing the world's most vulnerable c [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 08-Mar-2023
Ghana: Smallholder Farmers Build Capacity On Modern Technology
[Ghanaian Times] Bolgatanga -- The two-day workshop to support smallholder farmers to adapt modern technologies to enable them to improve upon their crop yields ended at Bolgatan [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 08-Mar-2023
Zimbabwe: White Zimbabwe Farmers Reject 3.5 Billion Dollar Deal
[263Chat] White Zimbabwe farmers living in the Southern African region have rejected Zimbabwe's offer to settle a 3.5-billion-dollar land compensation deal over 10 years. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 08-Mar-2023
Cattle rearers task Tinubu on ending herders-farmers crisis
Tribune Online Cattle rearers task Tinubu on ending herders-farmers crisis By Nurudeen Alimi PRESIDENT-elect, Senator Bola Tinubu, has been called upon by the Kulen Alah Cattle [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 07-Mar-2023
Farmers told to take advantage of identified planting window
Tribune Online Farmers told to take advantage of identified planting window By Nurudeen Alimi THE African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), has advised cowpea farmers i [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 07-Mar-2023
FCMB renews support for agri-tech firms, felicitates with ‘Babban Gona’
Tribune Online FCMB renews support for agri-tech firms, felicitates with ‘Babban Gona’ Chima Nwokoji|Lagos FIRST City Monument Bank (FCMB) has renewed its commitment to supp [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 07-Mar-2023
‘Quality seeds key to Nigeria’s self-sufficiency in food production’
Tribune Online ‘Quality seeds key to Nigeria’s self-sufficiency in food production’ Collins Nnabuife|Abuja Brighton Karume, Managing Director, ECOBasic Seeds Company Limi [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 07-Mar-2023
Boehringer Ingelheim’s LastMile initiative reaches over 40,000 smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Tribune Online Boehringer Ingelheim’s LastMile initiative reaches over 40,000 smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa By Nurudeen Alimi LASTMILE, an initiative to train smal [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 07-Mar-2023
Oyo State Farmers Field School Village Market debuts March 16
Tribune Online Oyo State Farmers Field School Village Market debuts March 16 By Nurudeen Alimi IN a bid to make agricultural commidities available to agricultural stakeholders a [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 07-Mar-2023
Anchor borrowers beneficiaries are up to date in loan servicing —CBN
Tribune Online Anchor borrowers beneficiaries are up to date in loan servicing —CBN From Chima Nwokoji and Collins Nnabuife THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 07-Mar-2023
Africa: The 'New Normal' in Food Systems Is Anchored On Gender Equality
[AGRA] The world quickly embraced a 'new normal' in response to the Covid-19 pandemic that swept the globe in 2020, dramatically upending life as we knew it. That should inspire a [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 07-Mar-2023
Uganda: Rice Scheme Projects in Bugiri, Bugweri, Kick Off
[Nile Post] The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries with funding from Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) is constructing Igogero-Naigombwa irrigation scheme in Bugi [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 07-Mar-2023
Nigeria: 25.3 Million People to Face Food Insecurity in Nigeria - FAO
[Premium Times] Widespread flooding recorded in 2022 worsened the situation, FAO said. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 07-Mar-2023
Africa: Forget ChatGPT - the Greatest Tech Breakthrough Would Be Getting Cell Phones to Rural Women
[IPS] Nairobi, Kenya -- Dr. Nicoline de Haan is Director of the CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 07-Mar-2023
Ghana: DBG to Support Four Value Chains to Promote Food Security
[Ghanaian Times] Development Bank Ghana (DBG) is to support four value chains in the agricultural sector to promote food security in the country. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 07-Mar-2023
Nigeria: Many Killed in Benue Farmers-Herders Clashes
[Daily Trust] Many people have been killed in several communities of Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State after suspected herders launched attacks on the areas. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 07-Mar-2023
Zimbabwe: Govt's Efforts to Boost Agricultural Production Must Not Go to Nought
[The Herald] It is as clear as day that the Government fully acknowledges the role agriculture is predestined to play in the country's march towards the attainment of an upper midd [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 07-Mar-2023