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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
Stakeholders To Meet Nigeria’s Net-Zero Emission Targets
Stakeholders in the environmental sector has reiterated its commitment to assist the Nigerian government to achieve its emission reduction target. The Society for Planet Prosperity [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Mar-2023
Africa: Q&A - 'Innovate to Unlock Africa's Livestock Potential'
[SciDev.Net] Nairobi -- Appolinaire Djikeng promises to strengthen research and innovation to improve the health of farmed animals as he becomes the first African to head the Inter [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Mar-2023
Ethiopia: Konso Zone in Need of Urgent Assistance As Drought Devastates Thousands
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Solomon Soka, member of the House of Representatives for Konso Nation and director general of Information Network Security Administration (INSA), re [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Mar-2023
Nigeria: Beans Are a Favourite Food in Nigeria - 4 Safe Ways to Preserve Them
[The Conversation Africa] The beans known as oloyin in Yoruba, or as cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata), are a favourite food among Nigerians, who eat them in a variety of dishes includin [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Mar-2023
Uganda: Cocoa Is Big Business, but Farmers Aren't Reaping Its Rewards
[Global Press Journal] Bundibugyo, Uganda -- Many of Uganda's small-scale farmers rely on someone else to dry their beans, a practice that keeps them in a cycle of poverty. A new p [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Mar-2023
Africa: Healthy Forests, Healthy Planet, Healthy Humans #AfricaClimateHope
[UN News] Forests are often called the lungs of the planet, because they absorb harmful carbon dioxide and produce life-giving oxygen so it's no exaggeration to equate healthy fore [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Mar-2023
Nigerian Government Seeks Adoption of Animal Welfare Best Practices
The National Stakeholders Consultative Meeting on Animal Welfare,during Emergencies and Disasters in Nigeria ,has met to discuss the provision for effective policies on animal welf [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Mar-2023
Stakeholders support Afforestation, Reforestation to Sustain Charcoal Business
In order to sustain the charcoal sub-sector, the National Association of Charcoal Producers, Dealers, Exporters, and Afforestation of Nigeria (NACPDEAN) and other stakeholders have [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Mar-2023
Group to Commence Export of High-yielding wheat Seed
The African Agricultural Transformation Organization has announced that preparations are underway toward producing and exporting high yielding, heat-resistant wheat. Dr. Oluwatoyin [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Mar-2023
Institute caution farmers from early planting with first rainfall
The Executive Director, National Cereals Research Institute (NCRI), Badeggi, Niger State, Dr. Aliyu Umar has warned farmers to hesitate from rushing into planting with the first ra [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Mar-2023
Mauritius: Pre-Budget Consultations - Minister Padayachy Meets Small Planters and Livestock Breeders
[Government of Mauritius] The Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, Dr Renganaden Padayachy, had a pre-budget consultative meeting, this afternoon in Port Louis, [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Mar-2023
Tanzania: Compensate Costs of Misused Sunflower Seedlings - Agricultural Seed Agency
[Daily News] Dodoma -- THE Tanzania Agricultural Seed Agency (ASA) has expressed its dismay over the consistent tendency by Singida Region authorities of failing to distribute to f [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Mar-2023
Tanzania: Kigoma Women Farmers Relish Technology
[Daily News] LOW-TECH, high-impact micro-irrigation technology is making a big difference in the lives of women farmers in the Kigoma region of Tanzania. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Mar-2023
Tunisia: Culinary Route of Sfax Olive Oil Project Launched
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- An information day on the launch of the Culinary Route of Sfax Olive Oil project was organised by Tunisia Olive Association, under the proje [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Mar-2023
Egypt: Irrigation Min. - Egypt Succeeded in Putting Water Issue in Heart of Climate Action #AfricaClimateHope
[Egypt Online] Minister of Irrigation Hani Suweilam said that Egypt succeeded in putting the water issue in the heart of the climate action via launching an initiative on adaptatio [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Mar-2023
Gambia: Hungry World Getting Worse!
[The Point] The world has perhaps never seen this level of simultaneous agricultural disruption, according to agriculture executives, industry analysts, farmers and economists inte [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Mar-2023