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Kenyan eco-entrepreneur tackles food waste with sustainable solutions

Kenyan eco-entrepreneur tackles food waste with sustainable solutionsMultiChoice

Source: © Ollivier Girad/CIFOR-ICRAF Fifty-eight ‘forgotten’ food crops in sub-Saharan Africa have been identified as able to provide healthy diets in a changing climate

Africa’s ‘forgotten’ foods research wins prestigious US Cozzarelli Prize

16 May 2024

WFP plans food relief for 270,000 Zimbabweans, poor harvest expected

By Nyasha Chingono 5 Jan 2024

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Bird flu could be eradicated by editing the genes of chickens - our study shows how

Bird flu could be eradicated by editing the genes of chickens - our study shows how

Alewo Idoko-Akoh 3 Nov 2023

Mozambique reports bird flu outbreak on laying hen farm

Mozambique reports bird flu outbreak on laying hen farm

Sybille de La Hamaide 20 Oct 2023

Kenyan court throws out challenge aimed at blocking GM crops

Kenyan court throws out challenge aimed at blocking GM crops

Humphrey Malalo 13 Oct 2023

Namibia bans poultry imports from SA due to bird flu

Nyasha Nyaungwa 28 Sep 2023

#BRICS2023: Putin's pledge: A path to food security in Africa

Katja Hamilton 23 Aug 2023

Food crisis in Africa: The high cost of imported fertilisers is adding to the problem

Food crisis in Africa: The high cost of imported fertilisers is adding to the problem

Simon Roberts and Ntombifuthi Tshabalala 26 Jul 2023

What this year's El Niño means for wheat and global food supply

What this year's El Niño means for wheat and global food supply

David Ubilava 17 Jul 2023

File photo: A vehicle carries untreated phosphate after being dropped off on a mountain at a phosphate mine at Boucraa factory of the National Moroccan phosphate company (OCP) situated in the southern provinces, 100km southwest of the town of Laayoune 18 February 2016. Reuters/Youssef Boudlal/File Photo

Morocco's OCP plans $7bn green ammonia plant to avert supply problems

20 Jun 2023

Africa needs grain imports, key states say ahead of Putin talks

Africa needs grain imports, key states say ahead of Putin talks

Carien du Plessis, Chris Mfula and Elias Biryabarema 15 Jun 2023

Source: Supplied.

African Development Bank to commit $10bn to end hunger on the continent

30 Jan 2023

Yellen calls for urgent action to improve food security, climate resilience in Africa

Yellen calls for urgent action to improve food security, climate resilience in Africa

Andrea Shalal 25 Jan 2023

Second international summit on food production in Africa to open in Dakar

Second international summit on food production in Africa to open in Dakar

20 Jan 2023

Tanzania's tomato harvest goes to waste: Solar-powered cold storage could be a sustainable solution

Tanzania's tomato harvest goes to waste: Solar-powered cold storage could be a sustainable solution

Evodius Waziri Rutta 13 Jan 2023

African Union member states pledge to improve nutrition and food security in Africa

29 Dec 2022

New food technologies could release 80% of the world's farmland back to nature

New food technologies could release 80% of the world's farmland back to nature

Chris D Thomas, Jack Hatfield and Katie Noble 9 Dec 2022

Source: Pula Advisors.

Closing the gender gap in digital microinsurance among women smallholders in Africa

Katja Hamilton 18 Nov 2022

Russian grain could be exported as flour to Africa via Turkey - Erdogan

Russian grain could be exported as flour to Africa via Turkey - Erdogan

Yesim Dikmen and Ece Toksabay 18 Nov 2022

Source: Reuters.

African insurers take up climate change fight with $14bn pledge

10 Nov 2022

From water conservation to crop selection, how farmers can take action against drought

From water conservation to crop selection, how farmers can take action against drought

Delphine Luquet, Ndjido Ardo Kane and Vincent Vadez 26 Oct 2022

Botswana resumes beef exports to the EU

Botswana resumes beef exports to the EU

Brian Benza 20 Oct 2022

UN farm fund in talks with IMF to join forces on resilience trust - president

UN farm fund in talks with IMF to join forces on resilience trust - president

Jorgelina do Rosario and Nigel Hunt 3 Oct 2022

UN ship leaves Ukraine with wheat for Ethiopia

UN ship leaves Ukraine with wheat for Ethiopia

Pavel Polityuk 19 Sep 2022

WFP plans food relief for 700,000 Zimbabweans

WFP plans food relief for 700,000 Zimbabweans

13 Sep 2022

Empty shelves and rising prices test Tunisians' patience

Empty shelves and rising prices test Tunisians' patience

Tarek Amara and Jihed Abidellaoui 9 Sep 2022

Can Ukraine's grain deal ease the global food crisis?

Can Ukraine's grain deal ease the global food crisis?

Nigel Hunt and Jonathan Saul 9 Sep 2022

Farming and fertilisers: How ecological practices can make a difference

Farming and fertilisers: How ecological practices can make a difference

Chloe MacLaren 1 Sep 2022

Scientists look to solve ozone threat to Africa's food security

Scientists look to solve ozone threat to Africa's food security

Gloria Dickie 1 Sep 2022

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Kenyan eco-entrepreneur tackles food waste with sustainable solutions

Kenyan eco-entrepreneur tackles food waste with sustainable solutions

MultiChoice 28 Oct 2024

Source: © Ollivier Girad/CIFOR-ICRAF Fifty-eight ‘forgotten’ food crops in sub-Saharan Africa have been identified as able to provide healthy diets in a changing climate

Africa’s ‘forgotten’ foods research wins prestigious US Cozzarelli Prize

16 May 2024

WFP plans food relief for 270,000 Zimbabweans, poor harvest expected

Nyasha Chingono 5 Jan 2024

Bird flu could be eradicated by editing the genes of chickens - our study shows how

Bird flu could be eradicated by editing the genes of chickens - our study shows how

Alewo Idoko-Akoh 3 Nov 2023

Mozambique reports bird flu outbreak on laying hen farm

Mozambique reports bird flu outbreak on laying hen farm

Sybille de La Hamaide 20 Oct 2023

Kenyan court throws out challenge aimed at blocking GM crops

Kenyan court throws out challenge aimed at blocking GM crops

Humphrey Malalo 13 Oct 2023

Namibia bans poultry imports from SA due to bird flu

Nyasha Nyaungwa 28 Sep 2023

#BRICS2023: Putin's pledge: A path to food security in Africa

Katja Hamilton 23 Aug 2023

Food crisis in Africa: The high cost of imported fertilisers is adding to the problem

Food crisis in Africa: The high cost of imported fertilisers is adding to the problem

Simon Roberts and Ntombifuthi Tshabalala 26 Jul 2023

What this year's El Niño means for wheat and global food supply

What this year's El Niño means for wheat and global food supply

David Ubilava 17 Jul 2023

File photo: A vehicle carries untreated phosphate after being dropped off on a mountain at a phosphate mine at Boucraa factory of the National Moroccan phosphate company (OCP) situated in the southern provinces, 100km southwest of the town of Laayoune 18 February 2016. Reuters/Youssef Boudlal/File Photo

Morocco's OCP plans $7bn green ammonia plant to avert supply problems

20 Jun 2023

Africa needs grain imports, key states say ahead of Putin talks

Africa needs grain imports, key states say ahead of Putin talks

Carien du Plessis, Chris Mfula and Elias Biryabarema 15 Jun 2023

Source: Supplied.

African Development Bank to commit $10bn to end hunger on the continent

30 Jan 2023

Yellen calls for urgent action to improve food security, climate resilience in Africa

Yellen calls for urgent action to improve food security, climate resilience in Africa

Andrea Shalal 25 Jan 2023

Second international summit on food production in Africa to open in Dakar

Second international summit on food production in Africa to open in Dakar

20 Jan 2023

Tanzania's tomato harvest goes to waste: Solar-powered cold storage could be a sustainable solution

Tanzania's tomato harvest goes to waste: Solar-powered cold storage could be a sustainable solution

Evodius Waziri Rutta 13 Jan 2023

African Union member states pledge to improve nutrition and food security in Africa

29 Dec 2022

New food technologies could release 80% of the world's farmland back to nature

New food technologies could release 80% of the world's farmland back to nature

Chris D Thomas, Jack Hatfield and Katie Noble 9 Dec 2022

Source: Pula Advisors.

Closing the gender gap in digital microinsurance among women smallholders in Africa

Katja Hamilton 18 Nov 2022

Russian grain could be exported as flour to Africa via Turkey - Erdogan

Russian grain could be exported as flour to Africa via Turkey - Erdogan

Yesim Dikmen and Ece Toksabay 18 Nov 2022

Source: Reuters.

African insurers take up climate change fight with $14bn pledge

10 Nov 2022

From water conservation to crop selection, how farmers can take action against drought

From water conservation to crop selection, how farmers can take action against drought

Delphine Luquet, Ndjido Ardo Kane and Vincent Vadez 26 Oct 2022

Botswana resumes beef exports to the EU

Botswana resumes beef exports to the EU

Brian Benza 20 Oct 2022

UN farm fund in talks with IMF to join forces on resilience trust - president

UN farm fund in talks with IMF to join forces on resilience trust - president

Jorgelina do Rosario and Nigel Hunt 3 Oct 2022

UN ship leaves Ukraine with wheat for Ethiopia

UN ship leaves Ukraine with wheat for Ethiopia

Pavel Polityuk 19 Sep 2022

WFP plans food relief for 700,000 Zimbabweans

WFP plans food relief for 700,000 Zimbabweans

13 Sep 2022

Empty shelves and rising prices test Tunisians' patience

Empty shelves and rising prices test Tunisians' patience

Tarek Amara and Jihed Abidellaoui 9 Sep 2022

Can Ukraine's grain deal ease the global food crisis?

Can Ukraine's grain deal ease the global food crisis?

Nigel Hunt and Jonathan Saul 9 Sep 2022

Farming and fertilisers: How ecological practices can make a difference

Farming and fertilisers: How ecological practices can make a difference

Chloe MacLaren 1 Sep 2022

Scientists look to solve ozone threat to Africa's food security

Scientists look to solve ozone threat to Africa's food security

Gloria Dickie 1 Sep 2022

Grain ship in Ukraine readies for journey to Africa

Grain ship in Ukraine readies for journey to Africa

Andrea Shalal 15 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied.

African Development Bank extends €121m food-production loan to Senegal to cushion impacts of war in Ukraine

11 Jul 2022

Omnia sees Africa increasing farm input support amid food security fears

Omnia sees Africa increasing farm input support amid food security fears

Nelson Banya 21 Jun 2022

European Investment Bank to support increased rice production in Liberia

9 Jun 2022

Rising hunger looms in Sudan, with little aid in sight

Rising hunger looms in Sudan, with little aid in sight

Nafisa Eltahir and Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah 4 Apr 2022

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Five essential commodities that will be hit by war in Ukraine

Sarah Schiffling and Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos 2 Mar 2022

UN WFP, Impact Hub Kigali launch programme to support food system innovations in Rwanda

UN WFP, Impact Hub Kigali launch programme to support food system innovations in Rwanda

7 Jan 2022

Are small farms the solution to food insecurity? Uganda study shows policies can get it wrong

Juan Pablo Rud, Diego Restuccia and Fernando Aragon Sanchez 2 Dec 2021

Source: Supplied

PepsiCo expands partnerships to advance food security in sub-Saharan Africa

17 Nov 2021

Namibia suspends poultry from Germany, Netherlands after bird flu outbreak

Namibia suspends poultry from Germany, Netherlands after bird flu outbreak

Nyasha Nyaungwa 2 Nov 2021