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Africa: Food Security and Food Safety in Africa Must Go Hand in Hand
[IPS] Lusaka, Zambia -- Monica Musonda, CEO, Java Foods, and Board Member, Partners in Food Solutions (PFS) [...]
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Date: 12-Apr-2024
South Sudan: Sudan at Risk of Collapse After 1 Year of Brutal War, with Famine Looming - Report
[Islamic Relief] Sudan is at imminent risk of collapsing after one year of violent conflict and is on the verge of mass famine with its food supply decimated and young children now [...]
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Date: 12-Apr-2024
Zimbabwe: Communal Farmers Warned Against Selling Livestock As Hunger Bites
[New Zimbabwe] Agriculture minister, Anxious Masuka has warned communal farmers against selling their livestock amid the hunger crisis the country is currently facing. [...]
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Date: 12-Apr-2024
Africa: Can We Have Our Food, and Equality Too?
[allAfrica] Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- The world faces a daunting challenge: securing food for a growing global population while navigating the complexities of climate crisis and e [...]
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Date: 12-Apr-2024
Tanzania’s Tea Board launches training program to boost tea sector revitalization
TANZANIA – In a bid to revitalize the Tanzanian tea sector and enhance its global com [...]
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Date: 03-Apr-2024
UK’s D’Amazonia introduces collagen-infused beauty tea
UK – UK-based tea manufacturer D’Amazonia has expanded its product lineup with the [...]
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Date: 03-Apr-2024
Heineken’s Bralirwa Plc expands production capacity with new line
RWANDA – Bralirwa Plc, a subsidiary of the Heineken Company, has unveiled its latest [...]
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Date: 03-Apr-2024
Nestlé South Africa to invest US$131M in Black-Owned businesses
SOUTH AFRICA— Nestlé has announced its commitment to investing R2.5 billion ($131 mi [...]
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Date: 03-Apr-2024
Cadbury Nigeria’s investors to miss out on dividends as company suffers N19.09 bn loss
NIGERIA— Cadbury Nigeria Plc, a renowned consumer goods firm, is facing significant s [...]
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Date: 03-Apr-2024
Ivorian government raises farmgate cocoa prices by 50% in bid to encourage more production
IVORY COAST—The Ivorian government is currently implementing a substantial increase i [...]
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Date: 03-Apr-2024
Finland’s Onego Bio secures €27 million in funding to boost sustainable protein production
FINLAND—Onego Bio, a US-Finish food biotechnology firm, has recently concluded its Se [...]
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Date: 03-Apr-2024
Rwanda: Beekeepers Get Tips On Smart Hive Technology to Increase Honey Production
[New Times] The University of Rwanda's African Center of Excellence in Internet of Things (ACEIoT) on March 30, conducted an awareness session for beekeepers associated with cooper [...]
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Date: 03-Apr-2024
Zimbabwe: Irrigation Acceleration Vital for Food Security
[The Herald] This season's El Nino drought has stressed the need for Zimbabwe to move as fast as possible to develop irrigation capacity for both fully irrigated crops and for supp [...]
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Date: 03-Apr-2024
Zimbabwe: Strides Made in Crafting Agric Sector Database
[The Herald] The Agricultural Marketing Authority's recent extension of the deadline for the submission of expressions of interest for the provision of a National Biometric Farmer [...]
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Date: 03-Apr-2024
Zimbabwe: Farmers Welcome Incentive Prices, Recommend Timely Payments
[The Herald] Edgar Vhera -- FARMERS have welcomed the recently announced wheat and maize incentive prices and called for the timely disbursement of payments so that they effectivel [...]
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Date: 03-Apr-2024
Zimbabwe: Ai Programme to Stimulate National Herd Growth
[The Herald] As efforts to rebuild the national herd intensify, the Department of Veterinary Technical Services has teamed up with the livestock research unit to initiate a nationw [...]
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Date: 03-Apr-2024
Africa: Upscaling Transformative Agricultural Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa
[World Bank] In the heart of sub-Saharan Africa, amidst the fields of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Nigeria, I bore witness to something truly remar [...]
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Date: 03-Apr-2024
Relief for Australian wine producers as China lifts imposed tariffs
AUSTRALIA – After three years of punitive tariffs, China has announced the lifting of [...]
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Date: 02-Apr-2024
Diageo, Kraft Heinz receive funding to enhance clean energy initiatives
US – The US Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations has announ [...]
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Date: 02-Apr-2024
PepsiCo to invest US$400M in two renewable energy powered plants in Vietnam
VIETNAM – U.S. food and beverage giant PepsiCo has announced plans to invest an addit [...]
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Date: 02-Apr-2024
Uganda’s sugar industry grapples with plummeting prices amid duty-free imports
UGANDA – The duty-free sugar import window granted to some East African Community (EA [...]
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Date: 02-Apr-2024
Kenya’s tea industry embraces innovative technology to combat climate change
KENYA – Kenya’s tea manufacturing sector is spearheading a technological revolution [...]
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Date: 02-Apr-2024
Kemin Food Technology welcomes Brian Odino as Technical Sales manager for North America
USA— Kemin Food Technology, a leading supplier of meat preservation technologies, has [...]
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Date: 02-Apr-2024
McDonald’s India teams up with Lotus Biscoff to introduce new desserts.
INDIA—, McDonald’s has partnered with Belgian multinational snack company Lotus Bis [...]
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Date: 02-Apr-2024
Togolese President launches new poultry complex to boost local production
TOGO—Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé has launched the construction of a poultry [...]
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Date: 02-Apr-2024