Tag: Africa
Nigeria: EU to review the ban on agricultural products by June
Expectations are high as the EU is set to review the ban imposed on Nigerian Agricultural Products- Beans in June 2019.
Four years after the...
FAO sounds alarm on Desert Locust outbreak in northeast Africa and...
Increased vigilance, strict monitoring and early control needed to prevent further swarms forming and spread along both sides of the Red Sea
Heavy rains and...
Nigeria Agriculture sector grew by 2.12% in 2018-NBS
According to the Nigerian Gross Domestic Product Report- GDP (Q4 and Full year 2018 released by the Nigerian Bureau of statistics- NBS Nigeria's Agriculture...
FAO Names Argan Water System in Morocco as Globally Important Agricultural...
Argan-based agro-pastoral system in Ait Souab-Ait Mansour Region, Morocco has been named by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) as a Globally...
Togo and IFAD partnering for improved financial services and job creation...
Rome, 7 February 2019 – Over 50,000 vulnerable rural households in Togo will benefit from a US$35 million project that aims to spur inclusive...
Togo: Mifa to create an agricultural insurance firm to cover over...
For the last three months of its pilot stage, MIFA wants to speed up the creation of an agricultural insurance firm that will cover...
New IFAD-funded project to raise incomes of smallholder farmers in Uganda
Over 30,800 vulnerable rural households in Uganda will benefit from a US$210.4 million project that aims to sustainably increase rural livelihoods by supporting an...
Cote d’Ivoire sends mission to Nigeria to tap IITA youth agripreneur...
In tackling youth unemployment, Cote d’Ivoire, Africa’s largest cocoa producer, has sent a delegation to Nigeria to understudy the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)...
South Africa’s Bidcorp annual profit up 9.1 percent
Bid Corporation Ltd (Bidcorp), South African food producer, reported a 9.1 percent rise in annual earnings; according to the year-end results made available on...
Ghana: CDA-Ghana demands audit into subsidised fertiliser policy
The Community Development Alliance (CDA-Ghana) has demanded government conduct thorough audit into the subsidized fertilizer programme introduced in 2017 because it is fraught with...
