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Ghana: Tree Crops Development Authority to Launch a 5-Year Strategic Plan
[GhanaToday] The Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA), under the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, is set to launch a Five-Year Strategic and Implementation Plan geared towards [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 26-Jul-2022
Ghana: TCDA Set to Launch Five-Year Strategy and Implementation Plan
[Ghanaian Times] The Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA), under the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, is set to launch an ambitious five-year strategic and implementation plan [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 26-Jul-2022
Ghana: Zebilla Farmers Sowing Cereals
[Ghanaian Times] Zebilla -- farmers in Zebilla, capital of Bawku West District, in the Upper East Region, have started preparing their lands and sowing cereals as they are in the w [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 26-Jul-2022
Uganda: Drought in Kayunga Raises Fear of Possible Hunger
[Nile Post] The prolonged dry spells in Kayunga have raised fears of possible hunger in the district. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 26-Jul-2022
South Africa: Load Shedding Possible As Eskom Loses 2,000MW
[SAnews.gov.za] Eskom has warned that load shedding may be implemented at short notice following a series of faults at its Kriel Power Station. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Jul-2022
Ghana: Plantain Lowers Blood Pressure - Why Your Mother Was Right?
[Ghanaian Times] One interesting subject that was raised recently after my article on cassava fufu was whether plantain should dominate. Probably, the proponents could be right. Ho [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Jul-2022
Somalia: U.S. Provides U.S.$476 Million in Aid to Somalia Amid Drought
[Shabelle] MOGADISHU - The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $476 million in critical humanitarian and develo [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Jul-2022
Ministry Distributes Inputs To Smallholder Farmers in Edo State
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development, Dr Ernest Umakhihe has flagged off yet another distribution of free Agricultural Inputs and Quality [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Jul-2022
Nigerian Government Unveils Agro-Initiative to Empower 36,000 People
To provide jobs for the teeming youths, the Federal Government has unveiled an agricultural scheme that it said would empower at least 1000 Nigerians in each of the 36 States of th [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Jul-2022
CBN inaugurates N600m GGMAX poultry farm in Kwara State
By Tunde Akanbi, Ilorin The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in collaboration with the University of Ilorin, has inaugurated Unilorin GGMAX integrated commercial poultry farm funded [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Jul-2022
Cost of Preparing Jollof Rice Up 8.3 Percent in Q2 2022 Amid Fuel Scarcity
[Premium Times] The report said Nigerians are running out of coping strategies and are in danger of starving if measures are not taken to buffer the effect of rising prices. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Jul-2022
'A Hungry, Angry Nation'
[New Republic] Noble Peace Laureate and former independence day orator Leymah Gbowee has described Liberia as a hungry and angry nation. [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: Liberia
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Jul-2022
Govt Completes 80 Warehouses Nationwide - Agric Minister
[Ghanaian Times] The government has completed 80 warehouses across the country, the Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has said. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Jul-2022
AfDB Injects U.S.$25,65 Million to Support Zim Food Production
[New Zimbabwe] The African Development Bank (AfDB) has injected a total US$25, 65 million grant drawn from the Transition Support Facility to enhance domestic domestic food product [...]
AgricultureCountry: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Jul-2022
Families to Be Kicked Off State Farm to Make Way for Private Farmer
[GroundUp] The fate of about 20 households hangs in the air as the Agricultural Research Council moves ahead with plans to lease the farm [...]
AgricultureCountry: South Africa
Region: Africa
Date: 22-Jul-2022
Chinese investors to cultivate 10,000 hectares of rice in Yobe
A group of Chinese investors is set to cultivate 10,000 hectares of rice plantation in a trial agricultural project in Yobe state. Leader of the investors Mr. Yung Wang, disclos [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Jul-2022
Nigerian Government to vaccinate 2.2m livestock in Northeast
To curtail spread of trans-boundary disease, the Federal Government has disclosed plans to provide two million vaccines for livestock in the North-Eastern zone of Nigeria. The vac [...]
Agriculture LivestockCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Jul-2022
Ekiti State Farmers Urges Governor- Elect to Prioritize Agriculture
A farmers group in Ekiti State has urged the Governor-Elect, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, to empower farmers with affordable fertilizers and soft loans to boost food production in the state [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Jul-2022
Africa: African Countries Could Do Better to Deal with Food Insecurity - UN Trade Chief
[VOA] Nairobi -- Economic and trade experts are calling on African countries to increase trade with each other and revive their agriculture sectors to overcome food insecurity and [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Jul-2022
The Problem of Food Security
[The Point] Fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of Gambians for food security has been a daunting task for the governments of three republics. The food security situation continue [...]
AgricultureCountry: Gambia
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Jul-2022
ADB Group Board Approves U.S.$ 1 Billion for Emergency Food Production
[New Dawn] Facility targets 20 million African smallholder farmers to end reliance on food imported from Russia and Ukraine [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: Liberia
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Jul-2022
Nigeria: Malnutrition and Its Alarming Endemic Situation in Nigeria
[This Day] Public Health experts see malnutrition as one of the major public health and development concerns, globally. In Nigeria, especially in Nasarawa, Kaduna and Niger, the si [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Jul-2022
CMA, Agriculture Ministry Sign Pact On Affordable Maize Flour
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Cereal Millers Association (CMA) and the Ministry of Agriculture have signed an agreement that will see the price of a 2-kilogram packet of Maize Flour [...]
AgricultureCountry: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Jul-2022
AUDA-NEPAD partners UN to deploy technology to assist smallholder farmers
Tribune Online AUDA-NEPAD partners UN to deploy technology to assist smallholder farmers As part of its efforts to contribute towards food security in Nigeria, the African Unio [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 20-Jul-2022
AfDB Approves $134m Loan for National Agriculture Growth Scheme
To scale up food production as part of measures to forestall the looming food crisis, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a $134 millio [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 20-Jul-2022