[The Conversation Africa] Humans have physically reconfigured half of the world's land to grow just eight staple crops: maize (corn), soy, wheat, rice, cassava, sorghum, sweet pota [...]

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Date: 08-Aug-2023

[IPS] Chicago, Usa -- The writer is President & CEO, The Global Food Banking Network [...]

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Date: 08-Aug-2023

[New Dawn] The Multi Actors Platform on Land Governance and Responsible Agricultural Investment in Liberia (MAP Liberia Land Platform) has announced the launch of series of program [...]

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Date: 08-Aug-2023

[Daily News] Arusha -- As the Coffee market in Tanzania is projected to grow by 7.78 per cent (2023-2028) resulting in a market volume of 34.25 million US dollars in 2028, Tanzania [...]

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Date: 08-Aug-2023

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Cabinet has approved Comprehensive Overhaul of State-owned sugar companies paving way for private sector participation and modernization. [...]

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Date: 08-Aug-2023

UK’s Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, has officially announced the launch of its programme, Propcom+ supporting climate and growth by addressing environmental, social, and econ [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 05-Aug-2023

Chief Executive Officer, CEO, and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, and Co-Chair of UN-Energy, Damilola Ogunbiyi and recently appoi [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 05-Aug-2023

KENYA – Kenya Wine Agencies Ltd (KWAL), a subsidiary of Dutch brewer Heineken, has officially relocated its production site to its newly commissio [...]

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Date: 05-Aug-2023

GLOBAL – Infant formula has fought back against misleading impression laid forward by a series of papers on breastfeeding, published in The Lancet [...]

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Date: 05-Aug-2023

[The New Humanitarian] Isiolo, Kenya -- 'In the welter of jargon-heavy policy documents promoting 'resilience-building', the big question remains - what is 'resilience', and for wh [...]

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Date: 05-Aug-2023

[Daily News] Mbeya -- SOYBEAN farmers, researchers, seed producers and traders met here yesterday to discuss how to increase production and improve trade of the crop. [...]

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Date: 05-Aug-2023

[New Era] Investments in higher-yielding horticultural seeds, water availability and basic training for farmers should be Namibia's focal points to substantially boost local food p [...]

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Date: 05-Aug-2023

[Namibian] A recent report on agriculture and aquaculture says the alarming issue of illegal egg dumping, disguised as in-transit exports, poses a significant risk to local poultry [...]

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Date: 05-Aug-2023

[Shabait] A key responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) in Eritrea involves regulating the production of food and feed derived from the agricultural sector. The aim is [...]

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Date: 05-Aug-2023

As part of efforts to address food inflation in the country, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said his administration would disburse N200 billion out of the N500,000 billion approve [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 02-Aug-2023

The British Foreign Minister, James Cleverly has planned to roll out a new package of support to make Nigeria’s agriculture sector more climate-resilient during a visit to the co [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 02-Aug-2023

The South-East Coordinator of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Chief Dunlop Okoro, has commended the Federal Government’s “expansive programme on agriculture”, [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 02-Aug-2023

The Federal Government says, it has commenced the distribution of subsidised farm inputs to small holder farmers across the North Western States of the country. This is contained i [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 02-Aug-2023

The Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA) has advised livestock farmers to take insurance coverage from the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) to regain th [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 02-Aug-2023

The Abakaliki Rice Millers Association in Ebonyi state has hailed the Federal Government’s plans to boost farm produce in an effort to cushion the effect of the removal of fuel s [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 02-Aug-2023

The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Tuesday, took its early warning, disaster prevention and reduction campaign to students and staff of the Univers [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 02-Aug-2023

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has introduced and made available a natural product that protects crops in farmers’ fields from toxic compounds, such a [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 02-Aug-2023

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and the Lagos State Government on Wednesday continued sensitization and vaccination of animals across the state in [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 02-Aug-2023

UGANDA – The Poultry Association of Uganda has come forward to address the recent media reports alleging the presence of antiretroviral drugs (A [...]

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Date: 02-Aug-2023

SOUTH AFRICA – South Africa’s poultry punitive trade tariffs on imported chicken have been reimplemented  after a 12-month reprieve. These long [...]

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Date: 02-Aug-2023