Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Just in time for the upcoming planting season, the Europ ean Union (EU) has put in motion a major effort to turn the tide of rising hunge r in Pakistan. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The Zimbabwe government Monday floated grain bills, th e first in a series, to raise funds to purchase more maize - the country's staple food. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Monday announced a 'groundbreaking partnership' that will link African government commi tments to agricultural development with concrete programmes in seeds, soil health, policy and markets, the alliance said in a statement made available to PANA here. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Africaâ?s two leading farmer-focused initiatives will M onday announce a timely and important new partnership that will link pledges by A frican governments to increase investment in agriculture with concrete programme s in seeds, soil health, policy and markets in order to boost productivity of sma l lholder farmers across the continent. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Rome-based UN agencies Thursday resolved to work togethe r to revamp the fight against hunger, PANA reported from here. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- One hundred thousand poor people in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, will benefit from a Kshs. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Significant amounts of the food produced in developing c ountries is lost after harvest, thereby aggravating hunger, the Food and Agricul t ure Organisation (FAO) said Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's overall tea production for January to Septembe r 2009, dipped by 12 per cent to stand at 209. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is to pr ovide Tanzania with advisory support for farmers that will help them better respond to market opportunities and thus heighten food security, the agency said Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FA O) has begun widespread consultations over the first-ever international guidelin e s on governance of tenure to land and other natural resources such as water supp l ies, fisheries and forests. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Germany has granted one additional million euros to enable the World Food Programme (WFP) to better fight against food insecurity in Burundi, according to a press release from the German diplomatic representation i n Bujumbura made available to PANA on Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Ground control operations are in progress against an inf estation of desert locusts in Mauritania, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) warned Monday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Friday laun ched a guide to help the billion people around the world suffering from hunger a c hieve access to adequate food. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The number of Ethiopians needing emergency food a id has climbed by over one million from last yearâ?s figure, the government anno unced Thursday. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- A Swiss food company, Nestle, is embroiled in a row wi th supporters of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, after it abruptly terminated a milk supply contract with the veteran leader over his seizure of a farm from a white farmer under the country's controversial land reforms. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- For the umpteenth time, the International Institute of T ropical Agriculture (IITA) has denied any plans to relocate from Nigeria. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Executive Director of the West and Central African C entre for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF), Paco Sereme, on Tuesday said in Dakar that researchers must anticipate the effect of climate change on A f rica. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), has called on world leaders to reach a "broad consensus on the total and rapid elimination of hunger" when they gather in Rome for the World Summit on Food Security scheduled 16-18 November. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- Belgium announced that it had released 500,000 euros for the purchase of 1,200 tonnes of food to be distributed by the World Food Pro g ramme (WFP) to some 330,000 people in Kenya, said a statement issued in Brussels , the capital, Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- As the world marked the World Food Day on Friday, the Sp anish government announced that it had set aside Sh96. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf Friday called on worl d leaders to reach a broad consensus on the total and rapid elimination of hunge r when they gather in Rome, the Italian capital, for the World Summit on Food Sec u rity of Heads of State and Government on 16-18 November. Full text...

Rome- Italy (PANA) -- The Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agricul ture Organisation (FAO), Jacques Diouf, on Thursday pleaded for the return of th e amount of the Public Aid to Development (PAD) for agriculture to its former 17 p er cent level. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) â" The Ghana government on Wed-nesday increased the producer price of cocoa by 35 per cent to 2,208 cedis (about US$1,472) per ton with imme d iate effect. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- African states featured prominently among a list of states where hunger and starvation have increased alarmingly over the past 20 years, with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) listed as the worst-hit by hunger, according to a report released here Wednesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) â" The United Nations Agency- for Food and Agriculture Org anisation (FAO) Wednesday said the â?combination of food and economic crisesâ? has pushed the number of hungry people worldwide â?to historic levelsâ? with mo re than one billion people undernourished. Full text...

Rome- Italy (PANA) -- The Director General of the United Nations Food and Agricul ture Organisation (FAO), Jacques Diouf, on Monday deplored the low use of irriga t ion for agricultural purposes in Africa, saying this had made agriculture vulner a ble to the vagaries of the climate. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- A broad coalition of public and private sector organizatio ns Monday announced a new partnership aimed at raising the yields and incomes fo r smallholder farmers in West Africa by increasing their access to improved, loca l ly-adapted varieties of major food crops, according to a press statement from th e coalition here. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa ( AGRA) and the Association of European Parliamentarians for Africa (AWEPA) Friday announced a new partnership to support African parliamentarians promoting polici e s to help small-holder farmers, a press statement from AGRA said here. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- A four-day meeting on the African seed programme will be h eld Monday in Bamako, the Malian capital, an official source told PANA here on F r iday. Full text...

N'Djamأ©na- Chad (PANA) -- The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is support ing a programme in Chad to help bring down food prices, the UN food agency's pro g ramme officer in Chad, Batedjim Noudjalbaye, said on Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The recent positive performance of agriculture in sub-Sa haran Africa indicated a break with the past and the outlook for the sector is i m proving. Full text...

By David Jagongo- PANA Correspondent Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) -- Boosting agricultural production to the levels needed to feed an expanded world population will require sharply increased public investm e nt in research and development, the UN food and agriculture agency, FAO, has sai d . Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Producing 70 percent more food for an additional 2. Full text...

Pأ©reybأ¨re- Mauritius (PANA) -- Some agricultural experts from 32 countries on T hursday began a workshop on "pests and their damaging effects on fruits" in the M auritian resort town of Pأ©reybأ¨re. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IIT A) has announced the development of a bio-pesticide for the control of a moth which ravages African cabbage. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Poor 2009 crop prospects in Eastern Africa following bel ow-average rains, combined with conflict and displacement are aggravating an already serious food insecurity situation in the region, FAO said Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The future of Kenya's food security situation remains pr ecarious unless strong and immediate measures are taken, a German civil society o rganisation, the Heinrich Boll Stiftung Foundation, said, citing a follow-up stu d y on high food and commodity prices, especially maize. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania and the United Nations Food and Agric ulture Organisation (FAO) on Tuesday signed a US$ 9 million agreement for a regi o nal project aimed at reducing the use of stable organic matters and other agroch e mical products in the basin of the Senegal and Niger rivers. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyaâ?s livestock farmers, mostly in the drought-affli cted northern Kenya, have lost more than 150,000 livestock to the devastating dr o ught in the country, which has also led to a 40 per cent drop in maize productio n , Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said here on Wednesday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The governing Board meeting of the International Crop Research Institute in Semi-Arid Tropical Zones (ICRISAT) will be held from 15-18 September in Bamako, organizers told PANA on Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Keny (PANA) -- Kenya is collaborating with the International Atomic Ener gy Agency (IAEA) to utilize nuclear technology for agricultural, livestock and i n dustrial production, Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka, has said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- "Norman Borlaug was a towering scientist whose work riva ls that of the 20th century's other great scientific benefactors of humankind," t he Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a tribute to the memory of th e late Nobel Prize winner. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- FAO has started a major operation in support of small-sc ale farmers in Zimbabwe as part of its joint efforts with the European Union (EU ) to fight hunger this year. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The agricultural and livestock sector in Burundi wil l benefit, over the next four years, from an investment of US$ 40 million from t h e European Union (EU), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD ) and World Food Programme (WFP), PANA learnt from an official source in Bujumbur a . Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Gambian parliament has ratified a Supplementary Loan Agreement amounting to about US$ 5 million from the African Development Bank (A f DB) for the financing of Artisanal Fisheries Development Project, according to o f ficial sources. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Researchers have said that farmers in developing countri es are losing one of their best hopes to limit the impacts of climate change bec a use of growing corporate control of the seeds they plant. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya(PANA) -- Libya deployed considerable efforts over the past decades to modernise its agriculture and promote the commercialisation of agricultural products throu gh a sustainable management of natural resources, a study on the country's national food security strategy has shown. Full text...

Lomأ©- Togo(PANA) -- The 27th ordinary session for the council of ministers from member countries of the Africa's rice Centre (ADRAO) opened on Thursday in Lomأ© with how to boost production of the staple food at the top of the agenda. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Africa recorded an 18 percent increase in rice production in 2008, compared to 2007 production levels, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The final text of a new treaty that aims to close fishin g ports to vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing , has been agreed upon by a group of 91 countries during talks brokered by Food a n d Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the UN agency announced on Tuesday. Full text...