Most Active Stories: Food and Agriculture

  1. Zimbabwe: Cultivating Food Security in the City

    In recent years Zimbabweans have faced severe food shortages and staggering hyperinflation. As a result, residents in the capital, Harare, have increasingly turned to urban gardening. They grow produce just about anywhere they can – in backyards, vacant lots, on roadsides and on rooftops.

  2. South Africa: Country to Assist Libya to Revive Farming

    A group of South African farmers arrived in Tripoli, Libya yesterday to help revive commercial agriculture in the oil-rich north African country.

  3. Africa: Illegal Factory Ships Threaten Fish Stocks

    Illegal fishing by factory ships is costing African countries over $1 billion a year as the threat to fish stocks reaches crisis level.

  4. Africa: Food for Thought on Food Security

    This year, the world will witness a new record, albeit a devastating one: for the first time in our history, over one billion people in the world suffer from daily hunger. That’s almost one in every six people on this planet living in fear of starvation.

  5. Zimbabwe: Six Tonnes Fake Seed Seized

    POLICE have recovered six tonnes of fake maize seed at a house in Tynwald, Harare, where it was being made in a makeshift factory and arrested one suspect.

  6. Africa: Women Are Behind 80 Percent of Continent's Food Production

    The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) considers gender mainstreaming, or involving women in farming development efforts, an essential component of its efforts to improve food security in Africa. This is especially the case when it comes to economic empowerment. Annina Lubbock is Ifad's senior technical advisor for gender and household food security. She oversees how to improve ...

  7. South Africa: Farmers Sample What Libya Offers

    CHARL Senekal holds up a clod of Libyan soil and lets it trickle through his fingers. Behind him endless rows of neglected olive trees stretch into the distance. "This place is easy to fix," says the jovial barrel-chested farmer. "We could turn it into a paradise."

  8. South Africa: Food Programme Helps Feed the Hungry

    An estimated 8 234 households have benefited from the government's Food Production Programme.

  9. South Africa: Govt Distributes Over 400 Tons of Food Relief

    Government has distributed between 400 and 600 tons of food to more than 100 000 people in need of emergency food relief since May, says Minister of Public Works Geoff Doidge.

  10. Tanzania: Local Farmers to Be Pushed Towards Market

    Arusha farmers will be among those who will benefit from FAO advisory support that will help them better respond to market opportunities and thus heighten food security.

  11. Special Incentives On Offer for Agri-Processing Investors

    Investment Opportunites : Agriculture & Agri-processing

  12. Nigeria: NBTE Commends Oyo Goverment for Agriculture College

    The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has commended Oyo state Government for placing top priority on agricultural research and training as manifested in the establishment of the College of Agriculture, Igbo-Ora.

  13. Uganda: U.S.$21 Million Sweet Potato Project to Aid Food Security, Nutrition

    The International Sweet Potato Centre has launched a $21.25 million research project in Uganda that will develop nutritionally enhanced sweet potatoes, in a project to reduce health problems related to vitamin A deficiency and improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa.

  14. East Africa: Invest U.S.$20 Billion to Avert Chronic Food Crisis, FAO Tells Region

    East Africa needs to increase investment in agriculture by over 50 per cent if the region is to avert a chronic food shortage by 2050.

  15. Uganda: Nutritious Feed to Milk More Earnings From Cows

    Dairy farmers in Uganda now stand to earn more following the introduction of locally produced nutrient supplement blocks that are expected to improve milk production by cows.


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