Kenya’s Dairy Sector Is Failing to Meet Domestic Demand. How It Can Raise Its Game
Kenya’s dairy sector is estimated at 14% of Kenya’s agricultural GDP. Milk is primarily produced by smallholder dairy farmers who account for 56% of total output....
Category : Food
Livestock for food and nutrition security in Malawi: Policy gaps, needs and opportunities
Malawi’s growing population is expected to place an increasing demand on its food production systems but the country’s smallholder farmers, the providers of the nation’s...
Overcoming impacts of desert locusts, drought and displacement through climate-smart agriculture practices and tools in Somaliland
FAO’s desert locust response programme is supporting rural farming households to address acute food insecurity in rural areas while contributing to mitigate further displacement. Forty-three-year-old...
FRA Farmer Payments Start
ZANIS/NAIS-Farmers in Luapula Province who supplied Maize to the Food Reserve Agency -FRA- have started getting paid. And Luapula Province Minister DERRICK CHILUNDIKA, who checked...
Government urged to boost soil production to enhance food security
Dr Edward Yeboah, the Acting Director of CSIR Soil Research Institute, has urged stakeholders to support the government to boost soil production to advance agricultural...
Namibia Records Profit in Agricultural Sector – NSA
THE Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) said the agricultural sector recorded growth of 3,9% in the third quarter of 2021, mainly due to the agriculture and...
If Uganda shuts flood gate of food, Kenyans will sleep hungry
She prefers to ferry her ginger, oranges, mangoes, vegetable and pepper from Uganda to sell in Kenya rather than get them from Kenya where the...
Nigeria’s Labana to partner Benin Republic on large scale rice production
Labana Rice Mill, Kebbi State, has begun bilateral discussions with the Republic of Benin for collaboration on large scale rice production. The News Agency of...
Kenya To Step-Up Farming Towards Food Security
The government is geared to scale up commercial farming by at least Sh400 billion as part of its strategy to achieve food security under the...