AfDB Board approves US$1.5 billion facility to avert food crisis in Africa

20 may 2022 - 21:08:37 VAO

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank Group's Board of Directors on Friday approved a US$1.5 billion facility to help African countries avert [...] Full text...

Nations must ‘act together urgently' to end crisis of food insecurity: UN chief

19 may 2022 - 05:17:24 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Hunger levels around the world are at “a new high”, the UN chief warned on Wednesday, in a call to [...] Full text...

UN focus on plant health, crucial for boosting food security worldwide

13 may 2022 - 05:25:41 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - On the very first International Day of Plant Health, marked on Thursday, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has called [...] Full text...

Mali intends to inject 456 billion CFA francs into 2022-2023 agricultural season

12 may 2022 - 16:27:49 BBA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali will inject 456 billion CFA francs into the 2022-2023 agricultural season, the Malian Ministry of Rural Development declared at the [...] Full text...

Libyan minister calls for food security strategy

12 may 2022 - 10:47:59 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister of Economy and Trade of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Mohamed al-Haweij, has called for a team [...] Full text...

Burkinabe gov't allocates more than 72 billion CFA francs to subsidise cotton growing

07 may 2022 - 15:17:40 BBA

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Faced with soaring fertiliser prices due to the crisis between Russia and Ukraine, the Burkinabe government announced on Friday a [...] Full text...

Mauritius to develop sustainable system for plant propagation at Prison Service

05 may 2022 - 07:48:33 NA

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security and the Mauritius Prisons Service (MPS) have agreed to develop a framework of [...] Full text...

Mauritius launches first African accelerator focusing on Regenerative Food and Agri-Tech

29 april 2022 - 08:25:13 NA

Ferney, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Thursday launched the first-ever African accelerator focusing on Regenerative Food and Agri-Tech for regional and international [...] Full text...

Tripoli-based government holds meeting on plans to set up grains board

25 april 2022 - 12:20:53 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Minister of Economy and Trade Mohamed al-Haweij of the Government of National Unity (GNU) has presented to Prime Minister Abdelhamid [...] Full text...

Benin produced over 190,000 tonnes of cashew nuts in 2021-2022 season -Ministry

15 april 2022 - 16:18:39 BBA

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin produced more than 190,000 tonnes of cashew nuts during the 2021-2022 season, sources close to the ministry of Agriculture, Livestock [...] Full text...

IFAD supports Senegal's agriculture sector

15 april 2022 - 13:15:40 BBA

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has granted Senegal funding for the productivity and market access of priority commodity and [...] Full text...

IFAD supports seven Sahelian countries with US$5.14 million

15 april 2022 - 13:05:19 MTA

Cotonou, Benin PANA) - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will allocate US$5.14 million to finance the Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme in seven [...] Full text...

Mali launches 12th edition of High Council for Agriculture

13 april 2022 - 16:50:21 BBA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The President of the Transition in Mali, Colonel Assimi Goita, Wednesday launched the 12th edition of the High Council of Agriculture, [...] Full text...

Mauritius addresses Food wastage programme

09 april 2022 - 09:30:24 NA

Flic-en-Flac, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-Industry and Food Security Minister, Mr Maneesh Gobin, has highlighted the importance of addressing food wastage at all levels from [...] Full text...

Burundi to establish regulatory authority for veterinary products, pesticides and food

07 april 2022 - 12:47:46 BBA

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundi government is to establish a regulatory authority for veterinary products, pesticides and food. This is in response to the sanitary and [...] Full text...

8th International Agricultural Exhibition opens in Tripoli

29 march 2022 - 13:23:42 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Eighth International Exhibition of Agriculture, Animal Resources and Fisheries opened on Monday at the Tripoli International Fair. The four-day exhibition, which [...] Full text...

Food Price Index hit record high in February, says FAO

05 march 2022 - 05:28:04 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Global food prices reached an all-time high in February, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday. The Food Price Index, [...] Full text...

Mali: More than 1.8 million people need food, nutritional assistance

22 february 2022 - 20:20:08 BBA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian Prime Minister, Choguel Kokalla Maiga, indicated on Monday in Bamako, at the opening of the 18th ordinary session of [...] Full text...

AfDB Chief, Nigerian State Governors to advance Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone Initiative in Nigeria

26 january 2022 - 23:47:47 VAO

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Receiving four Nigerian State Governors and the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), at the Bank’s [...] Full text...

Bringing dry land in the Sahel back to life (Feature by FAO)

23 january 2022 - 10:17:05 MA

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Millions of hectares of farmland are lost to the desert each year in Africa’s Sahel region, but the UN Food and [...] Full text...

FAO launches $138 million plan to avert hunger crisis in Horn of Africa

17 january 2022 - 16:46:15 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - More than $138 million is needed to assist rural communities affected by extended drought in the Horn of Africa, the UN [...] Full text...

Global food prices rose ‘sharply’ during 2021: FAO

06 january 2022 - 17:00:33 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN’s benchmark food and commodity prices index rose sharply on average through 2021, compared with the previous year, the Food [...] Full text...

WFP-backed challenge boosts food system in Rwanda and beyond

06 january 2022 - 10:32:18 MA

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Supporting innovations in the food system in Rwanda is the goal of a UN-backed initiative launched in the capital, Kigali, on [...] Full text...

Tunisia, FAO sign 2 agreements on agriculture

28 december 2021 - 18:51:12 BBA

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, Mahmoud Hamza, and Philippe Ankers, representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture [...] Full text...

US gives $10 million to support UN food agency efforts on COVID-19 response, future pandemics

24 december 2021 - 07:34:20 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - A US$10 million contribution from the United States will assist the Food and UN Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its work on [...] Full text...

Plastics in soil threaten food security, health, and environment: FAO

08 december 2021 - 09:00:38 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Plastic pollution has become pervasive in agricultural soils, posing a threat to food security, people’s health, and the environment, according to [...] Full text...

Some 35.8 million face lean season food crisis in West Africa and Sahel

07 december 2021 - 17:41:35 MA

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Growing food insecurity that is already affecting tens of millions of people across West Africa and the Sahel, must not be [...] Full text...

Gambia secures $40 million for inclusive, resilient, competitive agriculture

25 november 2021 - 10:49:01 MSS

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The World Bank Board on Wednesday approved $40 million from the International Development Association (IDA) to promote the development of inclusive, [...] Full text...

Three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet, says FAO

24 november 2021 - 05:17:05 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Approximately three billion people, almost 40 per cent of the world’s population, cannot afford a healthy diet and another one billion people would join their ranks  should further unpredictable events reduce incomes by [...] Full text...

Libya-Italy sign agreement to support projects to strengthen food security

21 november 2021 - 15:47:32 BBA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A memorandum of understanding was signed on Sunday in Tripoli between the Libyan Ministries of Agriculture and Local Government and the [...] Full text...

Severe drought grips Somalia

19 november 2021 - 23:05:10 AO

Mogadishu, Kenya (PANA) - Somalia is enduring its third consecutive poor rain season since late 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said Friday in its [...] Full text...

IFAD President expected in Cote d'Ivoire on Sunday

19 november 2021 - 12:01:34 BBA

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Gilbert Houngbo, is expected to pay a 72-hour visit to Côte [...] Full text...

FAO, IGAD seek urgent action to mitigate impact of drought in Eastern Africa

18 november 2021 - 22:28:14 AO

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Communities in the Eastern Africa region continue to experience a mix of shocks and stresses that are eroding their resilience to [...] Full text...

Mauritius to produce 250,000 tons of sugar this year

11 november 2021 - 14:19:12 NA

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture estimated on Thursday that sugar production for the 2021 harvest should be around 250,000 tonnes, down [...] Full text...

Coronavirus: Egypt’s grape farmers face disparities in access to production resources

06 november 2021 - 11:30:51 AR

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – Egypt’s production of table grapes in marketing year 2021/2022 is expected to reach 1.4 million metric tons (MMT) and exports are [...] Full text...

South Africa expects bumper maize harvest of 16.0 million tons in 2021/22

04 november 2021 - 13:54:19 AR

Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s maize crop for the 2021/22 marketing year, under normal climatic conditions, could once again top 16.0 million tons, [...] Full text...

UN chief urges lifesaving transformation of food systems

15 october 2021 - 07:12:10 MA

New York, US (PANA) - World Food Day is not only a reminder to everyone on the planet of the importance of what we eat, but [...] Full text...

Cotton sustains more than 100 million families worldwide - UN

08 october 2021 - 05:40:01 MA

New York, US (PANA) - A single metric tonne of cotton provides jobs for  five people on average, often in some of the world’s most impoverished regions; that adds up [...] Full text...

Startups, awards and new research: youth-led World Food Forum kicks off

02 october 2021 - 06:03:19 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) -  The first World Food Forum, a youth-led event aimed at harnessing the energy and creativity of young people, and featuring speeches [...] Full text...

World Food Forum kicks off with young generations shaping a better future for food

01 october 2021 - 13:41:21 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA)  - Young people from around the globe are being tasked with giving a key contribution to shape the future of agri-food systems [...] Full text...

IFPRI launches Food Policy Report on climate-resilient strategies in Egypt

30 september 2021 - 19:50:10 AR

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Without significant climate change adaption measures, climate change-induced biophysical crop stress could lead to a 10% reduction in Egypt’s food crop yields [...] Full text...

Food’s a human right, not just ‘a commodity to be traded’: Guterres

23 september 2021 - 18:51:07 AR

New York, US (PANA) - Every day, hundreds of millions of people go to bed hungry. Three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet. Two billion [...] Full text...

No improvement in young children’s diets over past decade: UNICEF

22 september 2021 - 17:15:39 MA

New York, US (PANA) - There has been little sign of improvement in the diets of the world’s youngest children over the last 10 years, [...] Full text...

Coronavirus: Decades of development efforts undermined by pandemic – FAO report

22 september 2021 - 17:07:48 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - COVID-19 has set back progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), undermining decades of development efforts, according to a new report by [...] Full text...

Global food systems: New IFAD report recommends concrete actions for policymakers

21 september 2021 - 14:43:55 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Transforming global food systems to become more inclusive, fair and sustainable may seem an insurmountable challenge, yet there are concrete actions [...] Full text...

African rural voices reach UN Food Systems Summit

20 september 2021 - 13:00:06 AR

New York, US (PANA) - Small-scale farmers and other rural people are development actors in their own right, with a wealth of experience to share [...] Full text...

Foodstuff prices fluctuate in Benin

19 september 2021 - 14:08:25 BBA

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Prices of foodstuffs in Benin fluctuated in early September, according to a report by  the National Institute of Statistics and Economic [...] Full text...

Benin to dredge 208 ha of water surface in South West

18 september 2021 - 16:58:16 BBA

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin will dredge and rehabilitate about 208 hectares of water in the area of Lake Ahémé and its channels to improve [...] Full text...

Republic of Korea supports smallholder farmers in Mozambique

15 september 2021 - 15:29:33 AR

Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has donated US$ 5.7 million to World Food Programme (WFP) for a project to support smallholder [...] Full text...

New report on African trade highlights opportunities, challenges for trade expansion

11 september 2021 - 18:59:23 AR

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The beginning of trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) presents significant opportunities to increase agricultural trade [...] Full text...