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Somalia: Grim Drought Hits More Than Seven Million
[Africa Renewal] Accompanying Somalia's newly-appointed drought envoy on his first field visit, the United Nations' top humanitarian official for the Horn of Africa country warned [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Egypt: Agriculture Minister, Eib Official Discuss Future Projects
[Egypt Online] Agriculture Minister El Sayyed el Quseir discussed on Friday 03/06/2022 with Lars Anwandter, senior loan officer at the European Investment Bank (EIB) future project [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Kenya: Locals in Arid North Face Climate Change, Hunger and Poverty
[IPS] Marsabit -- Darkuale Parsanti and his wife Mary Rampe are counting their losses: One by one, they have seen their livestock wiped out. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Worst Drought Threatens 'Deadly Consequences' for Women
[UN News] Women and girls face "deadly consequences" in the Somali region of Ethiopia due to the worst drought conditions for forty years, according to the United Nations Populatio [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Ethiopia: FAO Working to Benefit 620,000 Households With Agricultural Inputs in Northern Ethiopia
[ENA] Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said it is working to benefit 620,000 households in conflict affected areas of northern Ethiopia by providing a [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Tunisia: Grain - Tunisian Government Seeks to Achieve Self-Sufficiency in Durum Wheat
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Tunisian government is seeking, as part of its reform programme to achieve self-sufficiency in durum wheat by increasing the profitabili [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Africa: Five Ways Advancing Sustainable Agrifood Systems Promotes a Healthy Environment
[FAO] Achieving environmental goals is embedded in FAO's work [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Africa: Africans 'Victims' of the Ukraine War, AU Head Tells Putin
[DW] Macky Sall has told the Russian leader the ban on grain and fertilizer is causing a food crisis on the African continent. Russia says the blame lies elsewhere. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 04-Jun-2022
Milk production hits 1,500 litres daily in Abuja- Adesola
By Hudu Yakubu Abuja Milk production in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, has steadily increased from one hundred and fifty ( 150 ) to one thousand five hundred, (1500 ) litres dail [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Ogun State Commissioner Showcase State’s Climate-friendly Agric Policies, practices.
Mitigating climate change with agro-allied policies and practices, again, has been harped on by agricultural scientists and environmental enthusiasts as part of global efforts to m [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Agency Tutors Farmers, Extension Agents On Use Of Soil Test Kit
As a follow up to series of workshops earlier organized in the year by the Nigeria Institute of Soil Science (NISS), South-West zone, NISS recently put together another train-the-t [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Policy dialogue on Fulani Pastoralists laudable initiative – FCT Minister
By Hudu Yakubu Abuja The Minister of the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello has described the maiden Interactive Policy dialogue on the Future of [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Somalia: 'Dire and Grim' Drought is Impacting More Than 7 Million
[UN News] Accompanying Somalia's newly-appointed drought envoy on his first field visit, the United Nations' top humanitarian official for the Horn of Africa country warned on Tues [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Ethiopia: Drought Hits Again but Climate Change Not Only Culprit
[Addis Standard] East Bale -- "People are in trouble down here, all the way from Darako up to Sawwena, they have left their homes to find better pasture and water sources," Aliyi S [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Nigeria: Acute Malnutrition - Emir of Kano Tasks Parents On Intensive Care
[Daily Trust] The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, has said malnutrition, which has threatened the country for decades, could be addressed through the use of rich and multi-v [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Gambia: Banjul Market Women to Benefit From Organic Waste Project
[The Point] Women vendors at the Albert Market in Banjul are set to benefit from a mega project with the launch recently of an organic waste management project by Mbolo Association [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Uganda: Mafia Trying to Return Vinci Coffee Deal By Changing Resolution, Says MP Kivumbi
[Nile Post] The shadow minister of Finance, Muwanga Kivumbi has raised alarm over alleged plans to engineer changes in the recommendations by parliament's committee on trade agains [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Gambia: Agric Minister Hands Over Seeds Worth D13 Million
[The Point] Hon. Demba Sabally, minister for Agriculture through support from the World Bank funded project titled: 'Gambia Inclusive Resilient Agriculture Value Chain Development [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Nigeria: Nigeria, 59 Others Seek New WTO Rules On Food Subsidy to Battle Inflation
[This Day] No fewer than 60 countries, including Nigeria are demanding new World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules on food subsidy to battle inflation. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
Nigeria: Around 54% of Nigerian Children Suffer From Multidimensional Poverty - Report
[Vanguard] No less than 54 per cent of children in Nigeria are 'multidimensionally poor' even as 47.4 per cent of children face monetary poverty, while 24.56 per cent of children f [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 03-Jun-2022
NIRSAL disburses N500m loan to Nasarawa farmers
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) has disbursed over N500,000,000 million to farmers in Nasarawa state from 2017 to 2020. Hea [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Nigerian Government to rehabilitate degraded land to boost agriculture
The National Agency for Great Green Wall (NAGGW) has said it is committed to improving the livelihood of over 20 million Nigerians by 2030, as the agency moves to rehabilitate de [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Nigeria attends Stockholm+50 Conference, highlights pollution, management of chemicals, others
The High Level Segment of the Conferences to the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam & Stockholm Conventions is underway in Sweden, with Nigeria as a party. This is the tenth meeti [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Southern Africa: Enforcing Competition Would Ease Food Price Hikes in East and Southern Africa
[The Conversation Africa] Small and medium-scale farmers and agri-businesses in east and southern Africa are getting a raw deal. To succeed they need fair and integrated regional m [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 02-Jun-2022
Buhari, Spanish King, Canvass Global Cooperation to Avert Looming Food Crisis
[This Day] President Muhammadu Buhari and King Felipe VI of Spain have canvassed the need for world leaders to come together and strategise on ways to avert the looming food crisis [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Jun-2022