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Get latest updates/news emanating from around the Middle-East and African region.
Dry season farming’ll be intensified to tackle food insecurity – FG
Minister of Agriculture, Muhammad Abubakar, has stated that Nigeria will go into intensive dry-season farming beginning from December, to ensure food security in the countr [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Nov-2022
Nigeria Can Address Poverty Through Food Security- Kwara State Governor
The Kwara State Government has said Nigeria and Africa could easily break the shackles of poverty through proper investments in food security and various safety net programmes that [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Nov-2022
“Nigeria, Powerhouse for Agro-industrialization in Africa,” says IFAD
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has identified Nigeria as the powerhouse for agro-industrialization in Africa. Ms. Katherine Meighan, the Associate Vice- [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 31-Oct-2022
Nigeria: Govt to Stop Smuggling of Food Out of Nigeria - Minister
[Vanguard] The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, says the Federal Government is working with the Nigeria Custom Service and other agencies to sto [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 28-Oct-2022
Kenya: KBL Set to Recruit 5,000 Sorghum Farmers
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) is seeking to enroll over 5,000 new farmers to grow sorghum for the production of its Senator Keg Lager. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 28-Oct-2022
Kenya: Union Urges Farmers to Increase Coffee Trees as Bright Future Beckons
[Capital FM] Meru -- Meru Central Coffee Union (MCCU) has urged farmers to plant more coffee trees in anticipation of good times ahead. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 28-Oct-2022
East Africa: Droughts Don't Need to Result in Famine - Ethiopia and Somalia Show What Makes the Difference
[The Conversation Africa] The Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in 40 years. Scientists suspect that a multi-year La Niña cycle has been amplified by climate change to pr [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 28-Oct-2022
Nigeria: Why We Approved 5-Year Tax Break, Other Incentives for Investors in Agric Sector - Govt
[Vanguard] The Federal Government yesterday disclosed it has approved new incentives for investors in the country's agricultural sector. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 28-Oct-2022
AfDB’s Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone to begin in 7 Nigerian States
The African Development Bank (AfDB) says that the $538 million Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) would begin in 7 Nigerian states namely Cross River, Imo, Kaduna, Kan [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Nigeria imports Hazardous Pesticides worth N75bn- SRADev
The Sustainable Research and Action for Environmental Development (SRADev) says Nigeria spent N75bn on the importation of highly hazardous pesticides between 2020 to 2021. Dr. L [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Kenya: Fish Farmers in Lake Victoria Face Losses as Climate Change Effects Take Course
[Capital FM] Kisumu -- Fish cage farmers in Lake Victoria have suffered enormous losses following the mysterious death of fish stock. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Kenya: Pawpaw Farmers Urged to Practice Climate-Smart, Profitable Farming
[Capital FM] Muranga -- Papaya farmers in Murang'a have been urged to practice smart agricultural practices for profitable farming so as to ensure food safety and security in the c [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Kenya: Japan, Kenyan Governments to Expand Ahero Rice Farming
[Capital FM] Kisumu -- The Government of Japan will partner with the national government to expand rice farming at the Ahero Irrigation Scheme in Kisumu County. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Morocco: Moroccan-Emirati Meeting On Strengthening Cooperation in Agri-Food Sector
[MAP] Rabat -- Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests, Mohammed Sadiki, discussed, on Wednesday in Rabat, with UAE Minister of Environment and [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Tanzania: Cashew Nut Board Calls for Calm, Monitors Markets Trends
[Daily News] Mtwara -- CASHEW NUT Board of Tanzania (CBT) has said that it is closely monitoring global cashew nut market trend to inform and provide technical advice to its stakeh [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Africa: African civil society and faith leaders say rebranding the Green Revolution is no solution: We need Agroecology for food and climate action
[AFSA] Farmers, civil society and faith leaders of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa recognise the double rebranding of the Green Revolution as an admission of failure, a [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Nigeria: Nigeria Losses 80 Percent Crop Yield to Pests, Diseases in 2022 - Report
[Leadership] Pests and diseases have caused crop loss up to 80 percent in some farms in Nigeria on an estimation of 1.5 to 200,000 hectares of land in 2022. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Tanzania: Tanzania Moves to End Sugar Shortage
[Independent (Kampala)] Dodoma, Tanzania -- Tanzanian authorities on Tuesday announced measures they were taking to end the shortage of sugar in the East African nation. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Somalia: Four Lessons From Past Experience of Dealing With Famine
[The Conversation Africa] Since 1990 the world's famines have been classified as small - with the glaring exceptions of Somalia in 1991-92 and 2010-12. Now the UN's World Food Prog [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Kenya: Kenya Has Lifted Its Ban On Genetically Modified Crops - the Risks and Opportunities
[The Conversation Africa] Kenya recently lifted a ban on the cultivation and importation of genetically modified crops amid the worst drought in 40 years and soaring food prices. T [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 27-Oct-2022
Kenya: 406 Acres of Ex-Tobacco Land Now Under Alternative Crops
[Capital FM] Migori -- A total of 406 acres of tobacco farms in Migori County have been transformed alternative crops by tobacco growers. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 26-Oct-2022
Tanzania: Tanzania Eyes Sugar Self Sufficiency
[Daily News] Dodoma -- THE government has said that importing sugar from outside the country will be history come 2025/2026, expressing optimism that at that time, the country expe [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 26-Oct-2022
Liberia: Senate Grills Commerce Minister On Who Misinformed the President On Rice Availability Despite Acute Shortage
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Senate on Tuesday hosted the Minister of Commerce Mawine G. Diggs to answer questions about the shortage of the country's staple food, rice and wh [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 26-Oct-2022
200 students, 50 veterinarians to be trained on animal disease emergency response
Tribune Online 200 students, 50 veterinarians to be trained on animal disease emergency response About 200 veterinary students and 50 veterinarians are expected to be trained on C [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022
CSDevNet sensitises Ondo farmers, forest stakeholders on climate change adaptation
Tribune Online CSDevNet sensitises Ondo farmers, forest stakeholders on climate change adaptation As part of efforts to ensure that climate change does not affect farming and for [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 25-Oct-2022