Concern Universal, in partnership with Saint Joseph Family Farms in Bwiam, on Thursday, donated bags of rice, cement and soap among other things to disaster victims in Foni.
The earliest freshwater aquaculture trials (fish farming) were carried out in the 1970s and involved the culturing of Tilapia fish in small family fishponds by farmers in their rice fields in the fresh water zone of the river.
The National Farmers Platform recently held a two-day training workshop for farmers from Western Region and Lower River Region on advocacy at Bwiam in Foni Kansala. The training was aimed at building farmers' skills on advocacy.
Esther Kataike, 47, is an example of how rural women are key in the fight against food security. During the celebrations to mark the World Rural Women's Day in Pallisa recently, Kataike, from Buseta sub-county, narrated how she managed to achieve food security, not only for her home but also the sub-county.
Eric Mangar deplores the fact that Mauritius, despite being a net food importer, has failed to learn its lessons from the food crisis. The island state is pursuing "business as usual" without taking steps to improve food production on the local front.
Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) has failed to fully take advantage of exporting beef to the European Union (EU) duty-free and exploiting the opportunity created by the suspension of Brazil from the market as the global recession forced consumers to look for cheaper sources of protein.
CASSAVA production continues to be threatened by the spread of diseases which has immediate and far-reaching impacts on food security and supply in the African region.
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Monday urged staff of the Ministry of Fisheries, and all stakeholders in the sector, to commit themselves to achieving the goals and targets set by the government for fisheries, by using their knowledge and experience for the growth of the sector.
A Parliamentary Committee has heard that plans to build a second grain bulk handling facility in the country are not sound.
Liberian Vice-President Joseph Boakai and UN Deputy Envoy Moustapha Soumaré have underscored the unique role smallholder farmers' play in guaranteeing food security and alleviating poverty in Liberia with a call for increased investment in smallholder farming.
The rice growers told this reporter that making fertilizer and farm implements available, affordable and timely for them, they can be able to produce 10 tons of paddy rice from a hectare. According to them, with 3000 hectares of rice field in Jahally and Parcharr, they are capable of producing 30,000 tons of paddy rice. They argued that there are other rice fields in the Region that different from ...
The government faces a drastic review of its spending plans to manage the largest food shortfall in Kenya's history as the highly anticipated el-nino rains fail to materialise.
The re-opening of the Maun abattoir is scheduled for the first quarter of 2010, Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) has announced. However, the commission said it is going to be expensive to operate the facility due to the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in the area.
About 52,000 people in the Arusha Rural District can neither read nor write, accounting to 36 per cent of the total population in the vicinity.
The renowned Ghanaian international evangelist, Dr. Lawrence Tetteh, on Friday made it clear that he has engaged in crusades to uplift the image of the Central Region to attract the needed investments for development.
In a few weeks time, Christmas would be upon us. In spite of what people may say about the season, it would be observed with the usual parties, lunches and dinners.
Farmers who had planted crops in anticipation of El Nino rains are counting their losses after they failed.
THE country should invest in research to come up with better yielding cotton varieties to improve the current ginning capacity from the 220 000 tonnes to 700 000 tonnes by 2010.
The government has now turned to fish farming to help seal the yawning food gap and create employment in a bid to reduce poverty.
Africa Emergency and Locust Programme (AELP) recently organised a two-day training workshop for women in North Bank Region, on the effective pesticides management.
President Umar Yar'Adua is worried by increasing incidents of food poisoning in the country, hence the creation of the Association of Drinks Food Operators of Nigeria (ADFON) to instil proper hygienic conditions in public eating outlets.
GLOBALLY, livestock farming is fast becoming agriculture's most economically important sub-sector with demand for animal products projected to double over the next 20 years, especially in the developing countries, findings by the International Livestock Research Institute have indicated.
Chief Zvimba has banned the harvesting of wild fruits for sale in his area.
An apparent surge in the purchase of African land by foreign companies and governments to grow food and other crops for export has set alarm bells ringing on and off the continent. The headlines have been strident: "The Second Scramble for Africa Starts," "Quest for Food Security Breeds Neo-Colonists," "Food Security or Economic Slavery?"
It has been called the next golden commodity by investment firms, and 'neocolonialism' by the now repentant director general of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf.
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