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Ghana: FDA Moves to Safeguard Public Safety
[Ghanaian Times] The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has rolled out a comprehensive capacity strengthening programme to improve its enforcement activities across the country. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 19-Aug-2022
WFP Chief Visits Somalia Amid Severe Drought
[Shabelle] The Prime Minister of Somalia, Hamza Abdi Barre on Thursday received the Director General of the WFP, David Beasley at his office in Mogadishu. [...]
Country: Somalia
Region: Africa
Date: 19-Aug-2022
South Africa: Women Must Take the Lead in #AfricaClimateCrisis Solutions
[allAfrica] In honour of women's month, and as part of the country's drive to deal with the climate emergency, the government arranged a webinar on August 5 to discuss the challeng [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 19-Aug-2022
Smallholder Farmers Get USAID Loan In Gombe, Yobe States
As part of efforts to boost food production in the Northeast, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) – funded Feed the Future Nigeria Resilience Activity, [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Aug-2022
Nigerian Government Distributes Inputs to Katsina State Farmers
The Federal Government has empowered no fewer than one hundred and fifty smallholder farmers in Katsina State with assorted agricultural inputs, equipment, and seeds to boost farmi [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Aug-2022
Experts tasks Farmers on data-driven practice
In order to maximize the effective practice of poultry business, farmers across the nation have been urged to embrace the use of data to transform the poultry industry to manage an [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Aug-2022
Niger State Governor Flags Off Planting of 3000 Hybrid Shea Trees
Niger State Governor North Central Nigeria, Abubakar Sani Bello has flagged off hybrid shea tree planting in an effort of accelerating the economic transformation of the State. Bel [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Aug-2022
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Region: N/A
Date: 18-Aug-2022
Liberia: Farmers Empowered
[New Republic] In a bid to enhance farmers' production, the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) over the weekend donated several power ti [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Aug-2022
Ethiopia: Worsening Drought Sees Hunger Numbers Soar
[The New Humanitarian] Dire Dawa, Ethiopia -- 'If rain doesn't fall this year, the future will be disastrous.' [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Aug-2022
Ghana: Over U.S.$600 Million Spent On Imported Chicken in 2021... Poultry Farmers Unhappy
[Ghanaian Times] Over $600 million worth of chicken is dumped onto the Ghanaian market annually. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Aug-2022
Rwanda: Milk Shortages, Price Hikes Bite as Drought Takes Its Toll
[New Times] Pascal Dukuzumuremyi currently pays over 60 per cent more on milk than he used to about two months ago. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Aug-2022
South Africa: Opposition Parties In Bid to Remove President Cyril Ramaphosa - South African News Briefs, August 18, 2022
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Aug-2022
NBS’ July Report: Food Inflation in Nigeria hits 22.02%
Latest inflation report published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown that food inflation in Nigeria hit 22.02 percent in July, an upward trend from 20.60 per cent [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Aug-2022
Taraba State: IFAD seeks farmers’ access to credit facilities
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has highlighted the need for farmers in Taraba State to have access to credit facilities in order to boost production. Th [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Aug-2022
Biosafety Agency Moves to Combat Bio-terrorism
The National Biosafety Management Agency in Nigeria, NBMA is taking steps to combat Bio-terrorism in the country. Director General of the Agency, Dr Rufus Ebegba stated this at a P [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Aug-2022
Agency warns of Heavy Floods in Nigeria’s Capital City
The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has issued another early warning to all relevant Secretariats, Departments and Agencies to be on high alert and get [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Aug-2022
Nigeria: Food Inflation Continues to Surge As Poultry Feed Rises By 168%
[This Day] The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has stated that Nigeria's food inflation rose to 18.37 per cent in April amid increase in prices of staple food across the countr [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Aug-2022
Ghana: Govt Should Invest More in Agric - Prof. Ackah
[Ghanaian Times] An Economist at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Professor Charles Ackah, has called on the government to invest more into the a [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Aug-2022
Cameroon: Officials Blame War in Ukraine for Food Price Spikes
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Officials in Cameroon are urging people to eat local foods instead of imports, following protests over shortages and price spikes caused in part by Russi [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Aug-2022
Kenya: Drought-Hit Kenyan Herders Save Wildlife - and Their Livelihoods #AfricaClimateHope
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Olchoro Oirowua Village -- As drought and farming shrink natural habitats, wild animals are raiding villages for food. By protecting land for wildlife, [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Aug-2022
South Africa: Small Scale Fishers Call for Halt to Gas and Oil Exploration #AfricaClimateCrisis
[GroundUp] "When foreign companies drill oil in our oceans, fish die" [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 16-Aug-2022
Anambra State Government Empowers Women Farmers Agricultural Cooperative Societies
The Anambra State Government has said it will empower women Farmers cooperative societies involved in agriculture with N1.08 billion, adding that each of the 362 electoral wards in [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 15-Aug-2022
Organic Agriculture generates huge resources globally – ECOWAS committee
Mr Ernest Aubee, the Chairman Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA) Regional Steering Committee, ECOWAS Commission, says Organic Agriculture is generating lots of resources globally [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 15-Aug-2022
City Clean Up: FCTA justifies Kuje Area Council operations
By Hudu Yakubu Abuja The Nigerian Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, hinted that it has resolved to cleared part of the forest in Pasali in Kuje Area Council due to th [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 15-Aug-2022