Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - France’s Institute of Agronomic Research for Development (IRAD) and the Cameroonian Scientific Research and Innovation Ministry have signed four agreements, worth 954 million FCFA (about US$2 million), to boost agricultural production in the African nation. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the United Kingdom are teaming up to support Zimbabwe’s efforts to address poverty, food insecurity and climate change. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Three Rome-based UN agencies are teaming up on a US$ 2.7 million project to tackle the problem of food losses in developing countries, beginning with pilot programmes in Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - As the year 2013 rolls to an end, researchers across Africa have been urged to engage in researches that are demand-driven in order to reduce the gap between their findings as well as their relevance and usage. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Agricultural production in Congo has increased by at least 20% thanks to the agricultural development and the rural roads rehabilitation project (ADRRRP), according to the country's Agriculture and Livestock Minister Rigobert Maboundou. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A team of scientists at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (ITTA), which is based in Nigeria's South-west city of Ibadan, has achieved a breakthrough by growing seed yams in the air, using the 'aeroponics' technology. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Control operations are continuing in Madagascar against an invasion of the Malagasy Migratory Locust, a voracious insect threatening rice and maize crops. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Boosting productivity, fostering competitiveness and ensuring that small-scale farmers have greater access to markets are key to West Africa realizing its full agricultural potential, the UN food and agriculture agency (FAO) said Tuesday in a new study. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Farmers in the Central African Republic (CAR) need urgent assistance to prevent the food security in the conflict-stricken country from worsening for millions of people, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned Monday. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The third edition of the Ivorian government-organised Agricultural and Animal Resources Exposition (SARA) will hold 3-12 April 2015 at the future exposition park in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, the organisers announced here Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Securing land tenure, providing access to resources for mountain family farms and improving basic infrastructure in mountain regions are among the key solutions to improving the livelihoods and food security of mountain and lowland communities, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Tuesday announced a five-year project that seeks to increase incomes of smallholder farmers through the creation of an enabling policy environment in Africa. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The World cereal production will reach a new high of almost 2,500 million tonnes, including rice in milled terms, according to new FAO estimates, the UN food and agriculture agency said in a news dispatch from Rome, Italy, Thursday. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Niger will again be confronted this year with a food crisis after the country recorded a production deficit of 343,566 tons of cereals at the end of the present agricultural campaign. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Improving the quality, availability and relevance of data on food and agriculture has become a key priority as Africa strives to develop more effective policies to tackle its persistent food security problems, the UN food and agriculture agency said in a press statement Wednesday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - About 3,000 smallholder farmers in Tanzania will benefit from a US$20 million, four-year soybean production project sponsored by the US Department of Agriculture, it was announced here Wednesday. Full text...

Kamuli, Uganda (PANA) - The answer to feeding Africa’s extreme poverty could be Africa itself, according to the Uganda Community Organic Farm (UCOF). Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - African countries have been told to build on the successes recorded since the introduction of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), a flagship of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) 10 years ago, Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Tuesday urged governments to invest in programmes that help poor families keep small dairy livestock. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) -The United Nations has launched the 2014 International Year of Family Farming to stress the vast potential family farmers have to eradicate hunger and preserve natural resources, the UN Food and Agriculture agency said on Friday Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The pilot scheme of a project designed to assist Nigerian women farmers in agricultural development has kicked off in the country's South-west Ogun state, according to the promoters of the project, Caterina de' Medici Africa Projects Ltd (CDMA). Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Believing that fishing and agriculture work together to achieve food security and promote rural development, two key global agriculture and food organisations have sealed a deal aimed at safeguarding global food security. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Against the background that fishing and agriculture work together to achieve food security and promote rural development, the World Farmers Organisation (WFO) and the World Fish Centre have signed a Memorandum of Understand on food security this week. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The World Farmers Organization (WFO) has said it is not impressed with the 'superficial attention' the world is paying to Agriculture at the ongoing UN Framework Convention for Climate Change meeting in Warsaw, Poland. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says food systems will need to change significantly to tackle severe nutrition problems that currently afflict more than half of the world’s population. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Smallholder farming, the backbone of many African economies, is set to be transformed by a combination of investment and increasing access to information and communication technologies (ICTs). Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Applications for new grants are now being accepted by the Agriculture Fast Track (AFT) Fund, a new multi-donor trust fund managed by the African Development Bank (AfDB). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says improved supplies and a recovery in global inventories of cereals has led to less price volatility than in recent years, noting that food prices over the past month rose slightly, driven by higher sugar prices. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Tuesday launched an emergency response programme to support farmers in northern Benin, who lost crops, livestock and fishing grounds when the region was hit by floods in August. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday called for more financial support to boost its humanitarian efforts in Central African Republic (CAR). Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adeshina, Friday decried the low level of financial resources being channelled towards agricultural research across Africa. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - African countries must collaborate, mobilise more fund and share experiences with a view to strengthening agricultural research that will stimulate development in the sector, according to Dr. Irene Annor-Frempond, Director of Capacity Strengthening, the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA). Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Agriculture in Africa has experienced an average of 4% annual Gross Domestic Production (GDP) growth in the last 10 years, well above what obtained in the previous decades, according to an African agriculture development programme official Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - African countries have been called upon to work harmoniously in sustaining and building upon the achievements recorded in agriculture since the establishment 10 years ago of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said some 2.2 million Zimbabweans will need food assistance in the pre-harvest period from January to March next year, warning that food security in the southern African country continues to deteriorate. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Developing new strategies to tackle malnutrition and under-development in Africa will form part of the focus for this year’s Africa Food and Nutrition Security Day (ADFNS) celebration being marked on Wednesday in the capital of Niger, Niamey. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Ten years after the establishment of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), the continent has developed an effective and efficient framework that has placed the development of agriculture on top of its agenda, according to the head of CAADP, Mr. Martin Bwalya. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has stressed the urgency of bridging a US$ 25 million funding gap in Madagascar to curb the food crisis in the country, sparked by erratic weather and a locust invasion. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Over 300 experts Wednesday commenced a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, aimed at discussing the key issues affecting the banana sector, the organisers said. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called for efficient, well-managed and sustainable food systems to end hunger and malnutrition as well as protect the environment. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – As the world commemorates the World Food Day which this year is focusing on Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition, the United Nation’s top climate change official, Christiana Figueres, has warned that efforts to end world hunger must be aligned with tackling climate change. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Some four million people in rural Madagascar are food insecure after rice and maize production took a bad hit this year due to weather conditions and a locust invasion, according to UN agencies. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Governments must put people’s right to food before short term commercial interests, said international agency Oxfam ahead of the 40th annual meeting of the Committee on Food Security (CFS), to be held in Rome, Italy, 7-11 Oct. 2013. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The head of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), Mr. Martin Bwalya, has said 10 years after the Maputo declaration that gave birth to the agriculture framework, the sector has now been put in the front burner of development. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN, the Government of Malawi and other international partners have launched a relief operation for about 1.5 million people in need of food assistance in Malawi due to weather and high food prices. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A report by three UN agencies released on Tuesday says although the number of hungry people worldwide has decreased, millions are still undernourished. Full text...

Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria (PANA) - An International workshop on Animal Care and Use in Research, Education and Testing (ACURET) has opened at the privately-owned Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, South West Nigeria, with a call on scientists to uphold ethical standard when experimenting with animals. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday in Abuja said that Nigeria would welcome the deployment of China’s renowned agricultural expertise in support of efforts to positively transform Nigeria’s agricultural sector, a presidency press statement indicated here. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – A UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) report, launched on Wednesday, said the waste of some 1.3 billion tons of food each year is causing economic losses of US$ 750 billion and significant damage to the environment. Full text...

Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - A Green Revolution cannot materialise in Africa without a major concerted effort to secure financing for agricultural production, the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) has warned. Full text...