Category: Food

PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan’s efforts to bring agricultural sector reforms has received a huge boost after African Development Bank Group’s decision to commit a 120 million US dollars (about 280bn/-)…

KIGALI, Rwanda Africa’s development partners committed $30 billion Friday to agricultural development and food sovereignty on the continent during the next five years. The announcement came at the closure of…

Boosting food production at scale in Africa is achievable: thanks to heat-tolerant wheat varieties, Ethiopia’s wheat production increased from 50,000 hectares in 2018 to 400,000 hectares in 2022, turning the…

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has assured of its readiness to partner Lagos State government in order to improve the distributing meat across the country. Speaking during…

By Lydia Ngwakwe Many Nigerians did not pay much attention to the 2022 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2022) released in May, which stated that Nigeria was one of…

African Union member states meeting in Abidjan have called on governments to speed up investment, co-ordination and implementation of programmes to improve nutrition and food security in Africa. African leaders…

Ethiopian Agriculture Authority disclosed that the country has earned more than 41 million USD from the export trade of meat over the past five months. The Authority stated that the…

Phil Lewis, Senior Vice President of Solution Consulting, International, Infor  The world’s population is predicted to grow to more than 9 billion by 2050 and the Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO)…

Kenya’s bid to achieve food security has received a boost after the country was admitted to the executive board of the World Food Programme. Kenya now joins the WFP supreme…

GRAIN OF DISCORD The global grain crisis, which is gaining momentum and undermining the food security of the least developed countries, cannot be resolved without the involvement of the main…