Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Sub-Sahara Africa needs to address the challenge of stopping food losses that occur mostly at the processing and storage stage, in order to cut down alarming rates of hunger and under-nutrition, the Director General of the US-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Shenggen Fan, told PANA in an exclusive interview here on Tuesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the National Geographic Society on Friday launched a partnership to help promote greater awareness about food and nutrition-related issues, while providing greater ammunition in the global fight against hunger. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa is creating serious problems for farmers in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Nine out of 10 of the world's 570 million farms are managed by families, making the family farm the predominant of agriculture, and consequently a potentially crucial agent of change in achieving sustainable food security, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Thomson Reuters Foundation and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Thursday launched a comprehensive global news platform dedicated to food issues. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - China has announced a US$50 million donation to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to support the Organization's programme of "South-South cooperation" to improve food security and promote sustainable agricultural development over the next five years. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in West Africa and conflict Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - With some 805 million people still chronically undernourished in the Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Over the last two decades at least six African countries have registered tremendous improvements in addressing child underweight, described as the main indicator of hunger and under-nutrition, despite persistent food insecurity in several parts across the continent, according to a new Global Hunger Index (GHI) report for 2014. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - One in four people in South Africa do not have enough to eat, and half the population is at risk of hunger, despite the country producing more than enough food, according to a new report by Oxfam. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) kicked-off a two-day Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia loses approximately 20,000 ha of arable land every year due to soil erosion, salinity and urbanization, a local natural resources expert, Omar Matimat said on Saturday. Full text...

New York, US PANA) - Food markets are more stable and prices for most agricultural commodities are sharply lower than they have been in recent years, according to the latest edition of the biannual Food Outlook report released on Thursday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - One way to sustain crop productivity in Africa is through the increased use of bio-technology, including genetically modified organism (GMO) which can lead to an improvement in farmers' livelihoods on the continent, according to a new joint report released Wednesday by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with the African Development Bank (AfDB). Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - FAO Wednesday launched a new programme to urgently assist 90,000 vulnerable households in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone whose food supplies and livelihoods are threatened by the disruptive effect the Ebola epidemic, the UN food and agriculture agency, FAO, said in a press statement, received by PANA. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Regional experts from Eastern Africa are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, to create a robust network to promote climate smart agriculture. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A locust plague that spread across Madagascar threatening the main staple food crops and pasture in the country has been successfully contained. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Liberian government, along with key UN agencies, is set to carry out a rapid field assessment on food security and livelihoods in the wake of the Ebola outbreak. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said Monday that in order to move towards more sustainable agriculture, Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - With demand for food set to increase by 60 per cent by 2050, world leaders, major corporations and civil society at the UN Climate Summit on Tuesday promised to transform agricultural practices by increasing productivity while reducing carbon emissions. Full text...

Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - Cameroon's Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock on Friday announced an outbreak of swine fever in the northern Logone and Chari region which accounts for 25 percent of the country's pig breeding. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Africa lags behind in achieving international hunger targets, with sub-Saharan Africa lagging behind global trends, United Nations food agencies said Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO's) monthly food price index registered another drop in August, continuing a 5-month downward run and reaching its lowest level since September 2010, the UN agency said Thursday in a dispatch from its base in Rome, Italy. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The failure to rapidly grow the agricultural sector in Africa has been caused by weak and old-fashioned policies favouring state-run companies in the supply of agricultural produce, ministers said here this week. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) -The fate of farmers affected by climate change and unable to feed Africans dominated Tuesday’s opening of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), which has attracted 1,000 delegates from 80 countries around the world. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The gradual recovery and gains made since the end of the famine in 2012 are being lost as poor rains, conflict and trade disruptions have led to a worsening of the food security situation across Somalia, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said Tuesday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Government policies and almost US$6 billion in aid money to support large partnerships with the private sector are risking Africans’ land rights, worsening inequality and damaging the environment, according to a report published Monday by Oxfam Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Researchers have called for more concerted efforts to tackle the menace of weeds and the rejuvenation of the weeds science programme in Africa, as a way of tackling the problem affecting cassava farmers. Full text...

Lagos , Nigeria (PANA) – Innovative research and development products, tools and approaches developed by the Africa Rice Centre (AfricaRice) and its partners to boost productivity in Africa’s rice farming will be showcased at the first ‘Rice Innovations Fair of ScalableTechnologies’ from 1-2 September 2014, in Cotonou, Benin. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - In a major effort to revitalize agriculture in Swaziland, the government, the European Union (EU) and the FAO have helped over 20,000 smallholder farmers produce more, higher-quality food. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – A Chinese company, CGC International, is seeking 30,000 hectares for planting cassava in Pointe-Noire, Congo’s main economic and industrial centre, the company’s Deputy Managing Director, Jiang Fei, said Friday in Brazzaville after a meeting with Congolese Minister for Lands Pierre Mabiala. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – A Belgian company, HEVECO, is to invest in the production of rubber in Congo, an engineer of the project, Gilles Van Roye, said on Thursday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Kanayo F. Nwanze, arrived in Gambia on Thursday for a two-day official visit during which he will meet with President Yahya Jammeh and high-level government officials. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s veterinary services on Monday announced that it has stopped the national brucellosis vaccination campaign after 40 years of usage in the country. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Kanayo Nwanze is due to arrive in the Gambian capital, Banjul, Wednesday for a two-day official visit to the West African nation. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Grands Domaines de Mauritanie (GDM), a national private company operating in the agro-industry sector, will soon engage in banana cultivation. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian cocoa farmers are being offered lower prices as mould induced by heavy rainfall has reduced the quality of the chocolate ingredients, according to Socodevi, a Canada-based organisation working on improving crops in Nigeria. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – A new project geared towards reducing post-maize harvest losses and improving grain handling in Zambia was Thursday launched in the country, according to a statement obtained here by PANA. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food Price Index decreased for a fourth consecutive month in July, mainly due to a sharp decline in international prices for maize, wheat and certain oil seeds, reflecting ample supplies for these commodities, the UN agency said Thursday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Africa’s richest man and chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Nigerian Federal Government to invest one billion US dollars in rice production in the country. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The looming famine in South Sudan could be averted if the Government reaches an agreement to end fighting with rebels, regional bloc, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) warned Thursday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - An Italian firm, Scienza Per Amore, has announced the introduction of a food security project in Africa, seeking to cut food wastage by turning unused animal feed into biofuel and processing of foods to improve nutrition. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Continued efforts to provide farmers, fishermen and pastoralists in South Sudan with life-saving emergency livelihood kits are at risk due to a funding shortfall, aggravating the risk of famine in some areas of the country, FAO warned Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is supporting projects that will encourage the inclusion of cassava flour in bread and other confectioneries across West and Central Africa, according to a statement from the Nigeria-based International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA). Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The South African company, Afri-Com, specialists in agro-pastoral domain, will be the second South African agricultural company to settle in Congo. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - South Sudan now faces the worst food security crisis in the world, the US government has warned, saying that violence has forced over 1.5 million people from their homes since mid-December, while more than 50,000 children under the age of five are at risk of dying from malnutrition this year. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The United Nations Friday called on the international donor community to renew a commitment to fight hunger and food insecurity in the Sahel. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Urgent action is required to improve the health of the world's limited soil resources and stop land degradation, so as to ensure that future generations have enough supplies of food, water, energy and raw materials, according to government representatives and experts meeting at the FAO headquarters here. Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) – A project on the adaptation of agriculture to climate change in Togo, "Adapt" is being reviewed for validation in Lomé by actors and partners in the agriculture and environment sectors, official sources told PANA on Tuesday in the Togolese capital. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding marking the beginning of a new collaboration between them. Full text...