AGRICULTURE and Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana has asked SA's commercial farmers to join the agriculture department in coming to the aid of Zimbabwean farmers to prevent a food crisis in that country in the year ahead.

In a move to stem the harmful effects of contaminated Chinese milk, mothers in Cameroon have been advised to breastfeed their children as recommended by reproductive health officials.

Orphaned children from Gulu have received milk goats from the Christian Children's Fund to reduce malnutrition.

Zimbabwe faces yet another disastrous agricultural year: with hardly a month to go before the planting season starts, many farmers have not received the fertiliser and seeds they need.

The Omaheke Regional Emergency Management Unit (Oremu) will soon distribute drought relief food to the San community in the region.

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has inaugurated an 18-man committee on Food and Nutrition as a way of tackling malnutrition in women and children under five years.

An 18 member Committee on Food and Nutrition in the FCT was on Tuesday launched by the FCT Administration (FCTA) to find a solution to the scourge of malnutrition in the country.

For years, farmers in one of Senegal's most mango-rich zones, Keur Mbir Ndao, 80km east of the capital, were losing more than half their harvests.

Today, Namibia holds its in-country consultations on the establishment of the proposed regional strategic food reserves for the SADC region.

Sameer Agriculture and Livestock has extended its exploits in the powder milk market to West Africa as the company seeks to become a leader in an industry dominated by foreign brands.

PEOPLE in the southern region of the country are facing starvation as food shortages have reached critical levels with villagers exchanging their livestock for maize and other basic foodstuffs.

Mothers wait to vaccinate their children on 1 October at Namuduka village in Moroto district. The government and the UN say that up to 100 children die every week from largely preventable diseases

As the food situation in Africa becomes critical, the continent's governments have been asked to immediately start giving farming subsidies to overcome a crisis that could condemn millions of people to starvation.

The President of the Vegetarian Association of Ghana (VAG), Nathan Adu has urged Ghanaians to cultivate the habit to become vegetarians since the practice would immune one's system from many diseases and extend ones life span.

UNICEF Ethiopia on Thursday announced that it has received a donation of $1 million dollars from late Kihachiro Onitsuka, a private Japanese donor and founder of the multinational sporting goods company.

The price of tomatoes in Asaba, Delta State, has gone down to N6,000 from N7,000, for a large basket according to a survey by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

The President of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos, this Friday here said that the combat to hunger and poverty are the main priorities, the same as the implementation of the sub-programme of food security or nourishment self-sufficiency.

The humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe is deteriorating and will continue to worsen into next year, according to the top United Nations humanitarian official, who has called for urgent aid to avert increased human suffering in the Southern African nation.

The popular saying that a "hungry man is an angry man" re-echoed last Sunday at the major harbinger of conflict in the North Central States of the country as Nigerians of all walks of life converged in Abuja to celebrate the International Peace Day.

THE hills around Garanyemba, deep in Matabeleland South province, are littered with stunning rock formations, stark testaments to the power of nature.

A new Green Revolution is urgently needed in Africa to curb the suffering of the most vulnerable people, according to the top United Nations relief official, who recently saw first-hand how the current dire food crisis is affecting Ethiopia.

Several boarding secondary schools in Taita District may close early this term due to the rising cost of food.

Nutritionists have advised Nigerians to desist from eating "junk" foods in view of the hazards they pose to human health.

In Dongamuzi village, in the Lupane district of Zimbabwe's Matabeleland North Province, Jestina Moyo, 56, is making a deal she knows is unfair, but she also knows she has little choice but to barter one of her few remaining cows for six buckets of maize to feed her family.

Ten weeks after Doctors Without Boders/Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) authorization to treat malnutrition in the Maradi region was suspended, the French section of MSF is no longer providing any medical-nutritional treatment on site there. A new memorandum of understanding was drafted between the Ministry of Public Health and MSF, but the authorities of Niger have yet to sign it.