Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A total of 99,200 Burundian rural households in 17 provinces will benefit from a financial agreement signed on Tuesday between the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Burundi, the UN agency has said. Full text...

Washington, D.C., US (PANA) - With 1.5 billion people covered globally, food and voucher programmes provide an important lifeline for the poor and vulnerable. Understanding how those programmes work, and how they connect to wider social protection systems is key to ensuring food security and helping the poor, says a new World Bank report. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Poultry industry stakeholders, including producers, egg suppliers, veterinarians and decision makers from across Africa and beyond are set to convene in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, for a major conference and exhibition, dubbed "Poultry Africa", scheduled for 4-5 October, according to a statement issued Thursday by Rwanda ministry of agriculture and animal resources. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) – Investments in agrobiodiversity play a critical yet overlooked role in tackling wider global targets such as reducing poverty and malnutrition, reversing environmental degradation and combating climate change, according to a new study released in Rome, Italy, on Tuesday.. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has reported a suspected outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in the north-west district of the country. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Over 300 people from 28 countries will join senior government figures and fertilizer and agribusiness industry executives in Maputo, Mozambique, for a regional meeting, organizers said on Thursday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – Farming and rural non-farm-based activities still have untapped potential to generate employment opportunities for Africa's rising youth population, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has stressed at a high level forum - Harnessing Skills for Rural Transformation and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals - held at the margins of the United Nations General Assembly. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Robust harvests in Latin America and rebounding agricultural conditions in Southern Africa are on course to improve the global food supply situation, but ongoing civil conflicts and climate-related shocks are affecting progress towards hunger reduction, according to the new edition of FAO's Crop Prospects and Food Situation report published on Thursday. Full text...

Washington, D.C., US (PANA) - Strategic investments can help unlock potential for agribusiness growth in African nations with low agribusiness competitiveness, food security and agricultural productivity, according to a new analysis released Wednesday by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva has joined in calls for a renewed global commitment to zero tolerance for food loss and waste. Full text...

New York. US (PANA) - The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will leverage synergies to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Heifer International and the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) have agreed to seek opportunities for financing smallholder farmers in rural areas. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Locusts have invaded the province of Kwango in southwest DR Congo threatening the country's agriculture, according to a statement received by PANA on Monday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, a new UN reports says. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - While hunger and malnutrition are still clearly a major problem in Africa, research from the Malabo Montpellier Panel has shown that several countries are starting to win the battle for better nutrition outcomes. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has intensified financing for the production of crops with the highest potential for industrializing the African agriculture. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has announced a new youth training drive in partnership with the Brazil-Africa Institute to train young farmers (aged 18-35 years) in commodity processing, financial literacy and management techniques. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger intends to produce 700,000 tons of cereals under an irrigation programme due to be launched in October 2017, the country's director of rural mechanization, Moussa Amadou said on Saturday. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - The future of Africa’s agriculture looked brighter this week when leaders from across the continent converged in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, to discuss strategies to empower the African farmer to move their produce from the farms into larger industrial complexes. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Agricultural projects developed for Africa must be bankable and incentivized in order to attract private investors who seek to make profit, and the youth who seek employment. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Global food prices dipped in August, mainly as the prospect of bumper cereal harvests pushed up expectations for larger grain inventories, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Thursday. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Kenyan nutritionist, Ruth Oniang'o and Malian entrepreneur Maimouna Sidibé Coulibaly, were on Wednesday named as joint winners of the 2017 Africa Food Prize award. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Over 750 delegates and high-level dignitaries, including African Heads of States, Ministers, and key stakeholders in the agricultural sector, are convening this week in Côte d’Ivoire’s economic capital, Abidjan, for the 2017 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), Africa’s premier agriculture gathering. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - "Agriculture is instrumental in Africa’s poverty: it must also be instrumental in its wealth. Only through agricultural regeneration can growth, diversification and job creation occur for African economies, for no region of the world has ever industrialised without the agricultural sector being first transformed. In short, the future of Africa depends on agriculture." Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The heads of the United Nations food agencies have made a joint call for greater investment in long-term activities that strengthen people's resilience to drought and the impacts of climate shocks. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The seventh edition of the Africa Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) began on Monday in the Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan, on the theme: "Accelerating Africa's progress towards prosperity: Contributing to the growth of inclusive economies and the creation of jobs through agriculture." Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green has announced 12 target countries selected for the next phase in America's global hunger and food security initiative. Full text...

Monrovia, Liberia (PANA) - After Côte d’Ivoire in December 2016, the African Development Bank (AfDB) is supporting the Government of Liberia to provide entrepreneurship training to young people in the agriculture value chain from 28 - 31 August 2017. Full text...

Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – The head of the United Nations agriculture agency on Wednesday called for greater funding for a sustainable response to the refugee crisis in Uganda, as he concluded a visit to the country's north hosting those crossing the border for safety. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - Ahead of the 2017 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina has called for greater attention to the implementation of concrete plans for achieving the green revolution in Africa. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) – The heads of the three UN food agencies are to visit Ethiopia to highlight the critical food and nutrition security situation, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) announced on Wednesday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Crops that have been forgotten over the last century are being rediscovered. Scientists and policymakers are now beginning to recognize the value of so-called ‘orphan' crops, affirming what local communities have known for generations. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – A partnership agreement aimed at developing a coherent funding mechanism, appropriate for covering the investment needs in agricultural land development to increase production and productivity in Mali was signed on Saturday. Full text...

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Aiming to improve the availability and quality of national and international statistics in the fields of food and agriculture, the African Centre for Statistics, affiliated to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), is holding a 4-day training workshop on food balance in agricultural statistics in Rabat, the Moroccan capital. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Two-thirds of the caught fish that humans eat are taken by small-scale fishers, many using canoes carved from logs or stationary beach seine nets such as the rampani that dot India's eastern coast. Full text...

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Morocco has earmarked 2.6 billion Moroccan Dirhams (about US$ 268 million) to develop 92 agricultural projects in the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region over the period 2016-2020, according to an official report. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – Amid rising violence and displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 7.7 million people face acute hunger - a 30 percent increase over the last year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Monday in a new report. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has signed a US$ 3.5 million agreement with the FAO to strengthen its technical and functional national capacities in agriculture. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Supporting herders to get back on their feet and preventing further livestock losses and suffering are crucial in drought-hit Ethiopia where hunger has been on the rise this year, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Friday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The United Nations humanitarian agency, fighting hunger, has begun transporting food assistance to Nigeria's crisis-hit northeast, where people – displaced by Boko Haram violence and the fight against it – face the threat of famine. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) – A total of 60,000 Angolan rural households in Cuanza Sul and Huila provinces will benefit from a financial agreement, signed on Wednesday between the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Angola, that will generate revenue and boost food and nutrition security of poorer households. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Global food prices rose for the third consecutive month in July, driven mainly by higher cereal, sugar and dairy quotations, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reported on Thursday. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed tripartite agreements worth US$ 34.8 million and US$ 43.8 million with Somalia and South Sudan respectively as well with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), under the Bank’s ‘Say No To Famine – Short Term Regional Emergency Response Project – STRERP’. Full text...

Ibadan, Nigeria (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) will invest US$ 24 billion in agriculture over the next 10 years as part of its Feed Africa programme - a strategy for agricultural development in Africa, according to the Bank President, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) -The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has developed new guidelines aimed at helping countries develop strong National Forest Monitoring Systems, which are key to measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Sudanese government signed here on Monday a four-year Country Programming Framework (CPF) worth US$ 72 million to provide for collaboration in enabling policy and institutional environment for food and nutrition security. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) will invest US$24 billion in agriculture in Africa over the next 10 years, the Bank's President. Akinwumi Adesina,said Monday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - In an unprecedented move, Pope Francis has symbolically donated 25,000 euros to FAO's efforts supporting people facing food insecurity and famine in East Africa. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Improved aid access, strengthened resilience and advances in food system networks could provide as much as US$ 3.5 billion in annual cost savings at a time when humanitarian needs are skyrocketing in multiple complex emergencies across the globe, a new United Nations study has found. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – A United Nations standards-setting body has adopted a number of decisions to ensure food safety, including maximum residue limits for a range of drugs used in cattle and other animals, as well as revisions to guidance on agricultural and hygienic practices to minimize microbial, chemical and physical hazards to fresh fruits and vegetables. Full text...