Some 218 million people in Africa struggle with hunger daily – about 30 percent of the continent’s total population, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Most of those suffering from hunger are the rural poor, urban poor and victims of natural disasters.
As President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of Tanzania was about to leave Dar es Salaam on November 15 to attend the World Food Summit in Rome, he sat down at State House to discuss a range of issues with AllAfrica. One of them was food security.
International aid agency Oxfam today (22 October 2009) called for a radical shake-up in the way the world deals with food crises in Ethiopia and beyond. The agency rounded on what it called a “knee-jerk reaction” to food crises which is dominated by sending food aid. While the agency recognised that sending food aid does save lives, the dominance of this approach fails to ...
The pan-African financial services Group, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has continued to grow and expand in the continent with the opening of its Gabon affiliate; UBA Gabon, on Monday, November 16, 2009.
The Ethiopian government has vehemently rejected accusations that it has excluded some opposition supporters from a food-for-work programme, charges that are the focus of growing international concern in the run-up to elections in 2010.
After decades of interruption, Somalia re-established its relationship with the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Monday, 23 November 2009 with the signing of a USD 2 million grant to provide financial and technical assistance to Public Financial Management. The support to the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia comes from the Fragile States Facility (FSF) administrated by the ...
The importance of the agriculture sector to the Ghanaian economy was manifest once again in the 2010 national budget statement presented by the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, to Parliament on November 18, 2009. The sector grew by 6.2 percent, against a target of 5.7 percent, driven largely on account of good rainfall patterns and by extension of the land under ...
Rwanda has joined Malawi as the next successful example of a green revolution in Africa.
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Liberia Limited has signed a $10 million financing deal with Liberia's leading telecom company, Lonestar Limited; a company owned 51% by MTN Communications Limited for a network expansion programme. The deal is one of the biggest single projects financing by a commercial bank in the country and underscores UBA Group's role in project financing across Africa.
"If agriculture is so important in Africa, why is so little being done about it?" This brainteaser from the African Development Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, set the tone for an AfDB-IFAD High Level Partnership Meeting which is reviewing a Joint Evaluation of Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa, held on Friday 20 November 2009 in Tunis.
Public Private Partnership Africa Conference provides a platform for all stake holders to promote infrastructure development, examine challenges and opportunities in the infrastructure: energy, transport and water sectors in Africa.
African seed producers and researchers have called on policymakers to boost production of improved seed varieties and ensure that they are released to farmers more quickly.
Any serious farmer gets worried when rains are delayed, even by a short while.
The drought spell that has hit most parts of Arusha and Manyara regions for about two consecutive years is tearing apart the Maasai social fabric and driving youths in large numbers to seek employment or beg for food in urban areas.
The African Tax Administrators Forum (ATAF), an African network of tax commissioners, was officially launched at a ceremony in Kampala, Uganda, opened by the President of Uganda, Mr. Yoweri Museveni on 19-20 November 2009. The inaugural conference was attended by 29 African tax commissioners, as well as policy-makers and development partners.
