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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), has proposed a target for the total eradication of hunger by 2025, while it plans to increase assistance to USD 44 billion annually in agricultural development aid.
Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, John Mutorwa said Namibia is encouraged that the World Food Summit that was held in Rome this week considered the improvement of food security governance as parts of its agenda.
High levels of poverty, illiteracy and sight incapacitation in Kamuli District are some of factors advanced by the Electoral Commission to explain widespread election malpractices in the 2007 by-election for district chairperson.
African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call "Marie Nerica" who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government. Her success sprang from the government's renewed commitment to agriculture, sealed when it recently signed a compact known as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development ...
THE Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Dr. Paul Orhii, has said Nigeria is still grappling with the challenge to make safe qualitative, affordable food and medicines available to the people.
Seed Co managing director Mr Dennis Zaranyika has underscored the need to invest heavily in research and development for continuous improvement of seed varieties suitable for all regions of the country.
THE legal action instituted against Bayer CropScience AG by farmers in the United States for allegedly contaminating their farms with Genetically Modified (GM) rice seeds in 2006 is a further confirmation of the validity of tests carried out on rice samples collected by the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) in Nigeria and other West African countries within the ...
A wheat flour shortage looms as Somali pirates hit closer home -- our dinner tables.
The issue of food security can now be found at the center of the global community's development agenda in the wake of recent food and fuel crises caused by spiking prices. According to a USAID official, the current situation shows that inattention to agriculture has consequences for stability and the economic development process worldwide.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received a boost today for its emergency relief efforts feeding millions of hungry people in the Horn of Africa, with the announcement of a $112 million donation from Spain.
AFRICAN farmers are seeding prosperity. Marie Nerica who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone is one example. She now produces enough rice to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government.
Spain’s Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, today announced a donation of €75 million (US$112m) to the United Nations World Food Programme in response to the critical hunger situation in the Horn of Africa.
The Cabinet will determine whether needy Kenyans will receive food subsidies under a new programme.
Early this year the Government swung into action and introduced two categories of maize flour targeting the poor to cushion them against acute food shortage.
Kenya might be hit by a wheat flour shortage due to the high number of pirate attacks on grain vessels.
The Okavango Delta, which has been described as the world's largest inland delta, is the lifeline of the people living on its banks.
THE World Food Programme has warned agents distributing its food in Zimbabwe to desist from interfering in the country's politics, ordering them to carry out their operations through Government structures.
John Chirenje (38), the Harare man found guilty of producing uncertified maize seed as the legitimate article and which was recovered at a Tynwald house early this month, will spend the next three years behind bars.
Alhaji Eduwarr Seckan, governor of the North Bank Region (NBR), has applauded the Agency for the Development of Women and Children (ADWAC) for complementing governmentÂ's efforts in the attainment of food security through the empowerment of women.
In its bid to boost cassava production in Nigeria, the Netherlands has approved six million euro as grant, to boost Nigeria's cassava production.
President Umaru Yar'Adua yesterday in Rome called on the G8 countries to act rather than make promises on hunger to save the worsening situation in less developed nations.
The United Nations hosted a World Food Summit between November 16 and 18 in Rome, Italy, with the fact that more than one billion people are hungry echoing in the minds of concerned participants. Nigeria is not left out of the struggle. Abimbola Akosile examines a scenario that portends doom unless quick remedial actions are taken by all
African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call 'Marie Nerica' who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government.
Every decision of every democratic nation is deemed to benefit the people and the nation as a whole, sometimes to gain favour before the people. Even though some economic decisions like mining projects tend to negatively affect the lives of the people, some economic projects like hydropower dam construction, taking into consideration the government and stakeholders involved, go a long way in ...
To ensure that the people at the grass root enjoy health care delivery, federal government has disclosed that it would soon begin rural posting of medical doctors on a residency.
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