Africa Still Suffers High Crop Losses
A lack of infrastructure, such as roads and storage facilities, makes it considerably more difficult to reach food security goals - meaning the continent is still the hungriest in the world.
An irrigation project in Niger.
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Africa:
Weather Info Project Aims to Help African Farmers Adapt
AlertNet, 13 December 2013
Farmers facing long periods of dry weather and floods have expressed hope that a new climate change adaptation initiative being rolled out in Tanzania and Malawi will spell an end… Read more »
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Africa:
World Must Sustainably Produce 70 Percent More Food By Mid-Century - UN Report
UN News, 3 December 2013
The world will need 70 per cent more food, as measured by calories, to feed a global population of 9.6 billion in 2050, and must achieve this through improvements in the way people… Read more »
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Somalia:
Floods Displace Thousands, Destroy Farms in Middle Shabelle
UNIRIN, 5 December 2013
Thousands of people have been left homeless following continued flooding in parts of Somalia's Middle Shabelle region over the past couple of months, with large tracts of farmland… Read more »
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Africa:
New Report Offers Menu of Solutions to Close the Global Food Gap
UNEP, 3 December 2013
Actions Needed to Improve Food Production and Consumption to Close the Projected 70 Percent Gap by 2050 Read more »
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East Africa:
Africa Loses 25 Percent to Maize Diseases
EA Business, 29 November 2013
Africa has been losing up to 25% of its maize harvest due to pests and insects such as stem borers that damage emerging leaves of young maize.Stem borers are a class of insect… Read more »
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Tanzania:
Alarm As Banana Wilt Cuts Food Production
Daily News, 28 November 2013
SHOULD Tanzania's current population growth projection remain intact, the country's population will hit 51 million in 2016 straining the provision of basic services. Read more »
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Rwanda:
Bad Weather Leaves Bugesera District Farmers Counting Losses
New Times, 13 December 2013
Residents of Rweru sector, Bugesera District fear possible food shortage as crops wither due to drought. Read more »