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The United Nations has launched a multi million dollar appeal to help Zimbabwe bolster health, education, sanitation and food security, with officials explaining that an alarming number of people are still set to face hunger next year.
The government should invest more money in social programmes, among them subsidising farmers, to cushion the country from pangs of future financial crises, the World Bank has urged.
Nearly 300 agricultural experts, policymakers, donors and representatives from the African Union (AU), the East African Community (EAC) and other international organizations will convene in Kigali from the 7th to 8th of December for a high-level stakeholders meeting on investments into Rwanda's agricultural sector.
Jamataka village is situated 40 km west of the city of Francistown. At this time of the year, the vegetation is green and domesticated animals graze freely, thus adding more life to the countless paths going into the village.
An environment and development institution which is based in Arusha facilitates residents of Uwiro village to apply ecological principles to manage the natural resources in their village effectively. Said differently, the institution has been working to enable residents of Uwiro to manage their village as an ecological village or rather an eco-village. Uwiro village is located on the foot of Mount ...
Pungent smell from piles of animals' carcasses strewn in parts of Monduli, Longido and Ngorongoro Districts, is raising health concerns. In Loliondo, dead animals have been blocking roads.
Dairy farmers in the North Rift region have asked the government to subsidise the cost of artificial insemination to boost the quality of breed and milk production in the country.
Tea farmers in the country received a record bonus this year as a combination of factors saw them emerge as the best paid tea growers in the world.
Following the jumping of his bail bond issued by a Yola Magistrates' Court in Adamawa State, the contractor accussed of diverting 54 trucks of fertilizer meant for distribution to farmers in the state last farming season has been arrested in Lagos.This followed a bench warrant placed on him by the court.
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali took interest in activities and work schedule of the Tunisian Agriculture and Fisheries Union (UTAP) when receiving on Friday the organization's Chairman, Mr. Mabrouk Bahri.
Agency's inspectors raid several shopping centres in city and impound suspect infant formula for testing
LIVESTOCK and Fisheries Minister Bradford Machila has implored the private sector to invest in livestock production because it has the capacity to alleviate poverty in Zambia since it is not affected by any weather conditions.
THE Soroti Deputy Resident District Commissioner, Michael Bwalatum, has rejected goats supplied to the six model farmers in Eastern Division, Soroti municipality under the National Agricultural Advisory Services.
Nyinase (B/A), Dec. 4, (credit Adu Simon) GNA - Mr Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, Nkoranza South District Chief Executive, has commended the erstwhile Peoples National Defence Council (PNDC) government for instituting the celebration of National Farmers' Day.
The National Forestry Research Institute has embarked on a project to test the viability of biodiesel from jatropha, a drought resistant crop.
For decades, they tucked away a few yam vines under fichus trees in their back yards, in a bid to enhance food security.
The Bauchi State Government has directed the 20 local councils to pay N2 million each as counterpart fund to the FADAMA III project in the state. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Tanko Dutse, gave the directive in Bauchi at the end of a two-day retreat for facilitators and project desk officers on Saturday. The commissioner, who was represented by Alhaji Muhammad Damina, a director in the ...
Disable farmers under the auspices of the Disable Nigerian Business Persons and Farmers Association (DNBPFA) have called on President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to help them in the speedy passage of the disability rights bill into law.
The agricultural machinery which Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc, Mohammed Ali Al-Amoudi's new company, procured from Caterpillar for 80 million dollars has arrived at the port of Djibouti.
Karaturi Global, an Indian company with agricultural interest in the Gambella Regional State, requested, in early November, that the Ministry of Water Resources authorized it to use the Baro River to irrigate crops for its intended agricultural development project.
AMURU district has signed a memorandum of understanding with Uganda Wildlife Safari and Uganda Wildlife Authority to hire professional hunters to capture stray wild animals.
THE European Union, through the Neumann Kaffe Group (NKG) Coffee Alliance Trust, has donated post harvest tools to 15,000 coffee farmers in Luweero, Nakaseke and Nakasongola districts.
As part of its capacity building strategy, the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) is collaborating with the World Bank to evolve ways of eradicating poverty among the people particularly those in the rural areas. This is coming just as the ITF has concluded arrangement for a retreat for the participating states in the next few weeks.
Mali has approved long-term leases for outside investors to help develop more than 160,000 hectares of land, but local farmers say they fear being squeezed out by large-scale agro businesses.
Tea and coffee, Rwanda's primary exports, have been the main drivers of an average increase of 5 per cent GDP growth in recent years. But the country, dependent on grants, possesses little of the lucrative finite natural resources that have traditionally attracted investment in neighbouring countries. Over 70 per cent of the nation's 10 million citizens live on the poverty line, with an average ...
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