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Forter'ess Project - 22 Agricultural Structures in El Kef, Jendouba and Béja Get Emergency Grants
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Twenty-two agricultural structures operating in El Kef, Jendouba and Béja obtained Friday emergency grants of 5,000 to 25,000 dinars under [...]
AgricultureCountry: Tunisia
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Mar-2022
Eritrea: An Exemplary City-Born Farmer
[Shabait] Agriculture is one of the most important sectors in Eritrea, and Eritrean farmers have been designing techniques to maximize their products and maintain efficiency. Mrs. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Eritrea
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Mar-2022
Farmers Brace for Fertilizer Price Increase Due to Russia-Ukraine Conflict
[Capital FM] Eldoret -- The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war may have serious ramifications for cereal farming in Kenya due to the projected increase in the cost of planting fertilizer. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Mar-2022
Africa: Crisis in Ukraine Drives Food Prices Higher Around World
[VOA] Washington -- The impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- a country long known as the "breadbasket of Europe" because of the prodigious amounts of wheat, corn and other cer [...]
AgricultureRegion: Africa
Date: 07-Mar-2022
Court Vindicates the Rights of West Coast Fishing Communities to Be Consulted Before Seismic Surveys
[Daily Maverick] 'Unlimited development is detrimental to the environment and the destruction of the environment is detrimental to development.' - Constitutional Court [...]
AgricultureCountry: South Africa
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Mar-2022
Lagos Regulatory Authority vows to uphold new Real Estate law
The Lagos Lagos State Real Estate Regulatory Authority, LASRERA, is set to begin the enforcement of its newly signed Law. The law aimed at holding Property Developers, individuals [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 05-Mar-2022
Nigeria’s Economic Sustainability Requires We Return To Agriculture – FG
Nigerians must return to agriculture, according to President Muhammadu Buhari, if the country is to become self-sufficient. Buhari recently stated that agriculture, if properly ma [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 05-Mar-2022
Kwara Government lists conditions for fish farmers at Asa Dam Waterworks
Tunde Akanbi, Ilorin The Kwara State Government has listed some conditions to allow fish farmers within the precincts of the Asa Dam to continue there, with Ministry of Water Reso [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 05-Mar-2022
Soweto Youths Turn Dumpsite Into Thriving Food Garden
[GroundUp] The pair say their garden has become a hub for locals, with many community meetings now held there [...]
AgricultureCountry: South Africa
Region: Africa
Date: 05-Mar-2022
Africa: Russia's War With Ukraine Risks Putting Fresh Pressure On Rising Fertiliser Prices
[The Conversation Africa] Russia is one of the major players in global agricultural markets. The country is a significant exporter of grains, and also integrated into global agricu [...]
AgricultureRegion: Africa
Date: 05-Mar-2022
Government Expects Reduced Maize Productions This Year
[Nyasa Times] Government fears this year the country will experience maize production reduction by 14 percentage. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Malawi
Region: Africa
Date: 05-Mar-2022
Africa: The Banana Economy and How It Can Transform Africa
[The Exchange] Banana and plantain are important staple foods in many developing countries, especially in Africa [...]
AgricultureRegion: Africa
Date: 05-Mar-2022
NGO Set To Partner Ondo Govt On Tree Planting
A Non Govermental Organisation, Fold for Liberal Age Charity Initiative (Folliage) in collaboration with the Ondo State government, has expressed its readiness to embark on tree pl [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Mar-2022
Milling titans to merge in Nigeria
Nigeria’s leading food and agro-allied company, Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN), is set to tighten its grip on the country’s flour milling market as it prepares to acquire a major [...]
Agricultural Tools/Equipments AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Mar-2022
Farmers Hopeful As Makurdi Varsity Releases 2 New Beans Varieties
Farmers in the country are hopeful of improved cowpea farming during this year’s farming season because of the new cowpea varieties just released by Joseph Sarwuan Tarka Universi [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Mar-2022
Minister outline measures to tackle inherent environmental challenges.
Minister of State for Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, who led the Nigerian delegation to the resumed Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2) in Nairobi, Kenya, has disclo [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Mar-2022
Nigeria empowers women farmers with cooking gas cylinders
The Federal Government, in its bid to address deforestation in the country has distributed cooking gas cylinders to smallholder women farmers in the North Central Geopolitical Zone [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Mar-2022
5,000 Sokoto Wheat Farmers to Use Modern Tech to Enhance Production
[Daily Trust] The Flour Milling Association of Nigeria (FMAN) has trained over 5,000 wheat farmers on the use of modern technology to enhance production. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Mar-2022
Israel to Help Ghana Improve Soil Fertility
[Ghanaian Times] THE Israeli Trade and Economic Mission in Ghana yesterday organised a stakeholder's forum in Accra to discuss ways of improving soil fertility through the adoption [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 04-Mar-2022
Oyo, Ogun, other farmers to earn €9.7m annually from Netherlands funded HortiNigeria project
Tribune Online Oyo, Ogun, other farmers to earn €9.7m annually from Netherlands funded HortiNigeria project The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria has award [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 03-Mar-2022
NRCRI Releases Additional Yam, Cassava Varieties For Farmers
The National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) Umudike, Abia State, has released additional root crop varieties for Nigerian farmers. A director at NRCRI, Godwin Asumugha, des [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 03-Mar-2022
Nigeria to restore 4m hectares of degraded Land forest
The Nigerian government has reiterated its commitments to restore 4million hectares of its degraded land forest and landscape. This is inline with its commitment to the Africa For [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 03-Mar-2022
UN Women seeks gender inclusion to combat Climate change
UN Women has called on Nigeria’s Ministry of Environment to expedite action on the implementation of its gender action, to ensure “improved gender equality in climate change re [...]
Environment, Health & SafetyCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 03-Mar-2022
MTN to invest ¢1.5bn in Infrastructure and Network Systems In 2022
MTN Ghana is on track to fulfill its planned spend of USD 1 billion on Network Infrastructure and Information Systems (NIIS) by 2025. This planned expenditure will go a lon [...]
Infrastructure and Construction Information Technology (IT)Country: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 03-Mar-2022
UN WFP Operations in Darfur 'Partially Resumed'
[Dabanga] El Fasher -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has partially resumed operations in North Darfur after more than a month's suspension following a series of att [...]
Country: Sudan
Region: Africa
Date: 03-Mar-2022