‘Agriculture can be a solution’ for east Africa’s hunger crisis
Agriculture has the potential to help Africa overcome its raging hunger crisis, if long-term investments are made in the continent that has “huge farming potential”....
Category : Food
Record levels of child hunger reported in Horn of Africa
Action Against Hunger is the anti-poverty group that raises alarm over war-torn Somalia. Action Against Hunger reported that Somalia has experienced the worst levels of...
The African Development Bank helps strengthen food security in Niger Maradi and Tillabéry regions
In 2017, 32-year-old Hamsa Hamidou of Simiri in southwest Niger’s Tillabéry region, was given a cow. Three years later, he sold it and used the...
Low rainfall pushes parts of southern Africa into food insecurity
Low rainfall has pushed southern Madagascar, south-western Angola, north-western Namibia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe further into food insecurity. As such, governments are moving ahead with plans...
Food prices can only be lowered through reduction of farm products, says Sonko
A sharp increase in prices of basic commodities and food for the last few months has pushed up the cost of living. According to former Nairobi...
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...