Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese President Macky Sall on Wednesday led a new international effort to modernize agriculture in Africa, urging finance ministers and commercial banks to support efforts to modernize crop production and help generate economic growth. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Madagascar and the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) signed an agreement Wednesday aimed at improving incomes and food security of smallholders in the Indian Ocean island. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - There is an unbelievable contrast today in Africa: How can a continent with such an abundance of arable land, water and sunshine annually import food worth US$35 billion? How can it be that the continent is not food secure? This must change. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Global agreement on how to deal with climate change must be extended to cover the necessary assistance to farmers affected by poor crop yields due to drought and the impact of climate change, the African Union (AU) said Tuesday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is backing efforts of the UN Food and Agriculture Oraganisation (FAO) to combat pandemic animal disease threats in Asia, Africa and the Middle East with an additional US$87 million in funding covering the 2015-19 period. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - An estimated 27.4 million people in Southern Africa face food Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - On World Food Day, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that, Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) will organise an international conference on agriculture in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, from 21-23 October. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Leading figures in the global fight against hunger are gathered Friday at the Milan Expo to celebrate the World Food Day, marking the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) with appeals to speed up efforts to eradicate hunger and improve the way food is produced and consumed. Full text...

Milan, Italy (PANA) - Cities have a key role to play in ending hunger and improving nutrition, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said Thursday while welcoming a commitment by more than 100 cities from around the world to make food systems in urban areas more equitable and sustainable. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Cities have a key role to play in ending hunger and improving Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Ms. Hilal Elver, Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - All countries should strive to ensure that an ambitious agreement to tackle climate change is achieved, putting food security and agriculture at the centre of debates on the issue, say the FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, and the French Minister for Agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN in Zimbabwe has appealed to humanitarian and development Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Orange Botswana, one of the country’s leading mobile operator on Monday revealed m-Agri, a new mobile application designed for farmers in collaboration with a local company Branstorne has reached 10,000 registered users. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) opened its plenary on Monday marking the first international gathering on food security and nutrition since global leaders approved the Sustainable Development Agenda's goals. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Food prices are staying lower for longer periods, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Thursday, saying that "lower food prices seem to be a boon to food security and are indeed just that for households who spend a large share of their income on food purchases." Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The genome sequences of thousands of rice varieties have been placed Full text...

New York,US (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Monday announced that its rapid response operation in conflict-torn South Sudan has delivered livelihood assistance to 60,000 food-insecure households in hard-to-reach areas of northern Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile States. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Global agricultural research consortium CGIAR Tuesday convened a panel of experts, decision makers and donors a for three-day scientific conference to promote orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) to enhance dietary Vitamin A among vulnerable populations in African region, PANA reported from here. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - More than 2.8 million people will face hunger in the coming months Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has unveiled a new partnership Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The price of major food commodities continued to drop through Full text...

Durban, South Africa (PANA) - The world's forests continue to shrink as populations increase and forest land is converted to agriculture and other uses, but over the past 25 years the rate of net global deforestation has slowed down by more than 50 percent, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report published Monday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Cameroon and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Full text...

New York US (PANA) - Residents at the Kakuma refugee camp in north-western Kenya will soon be able to buy charcoal produced in an environmentally-friendly way by local farmers as part of an innovative new alliance between the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and a leader in global payments and a technology company, MasterCard, to support small farmers and poor families. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Most African countries that today are considered low income will transition to middle income status within 15 years, and all but one will be middle income by 2050, according to the Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR), released Tuesday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - A new UN programme funded by Germany will help eight developing countries, three of which are from Africa, revamp and strengthen their adaptation responses to climate change, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said, Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) – The FAO and the Swedish-based development cooperation organization, "We Effect", have agreed to work together to strengthen small-scale forest and farm producers' organizations in developing countries so they can access land and markets and improve the livelihoods of their members. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Varieties of one of the world's most important staple crops will be stored for perpetuity deep in the Arctic ice Friday, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Kenya and the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on Wednesday signed an agreement to finance the Kenya Cereal Enhancement Programme – Climate-Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Window (KCEP-CRAL) - that will benefit 10,000 smallholder farmers, including women-headed households and young people. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana Police Service (BPS) has bemoaned the increasing theft of livestock along the country’s border with Zimbabwe. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - A new open-access data portal to be developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will use satellite imagery to help water-scarce countries in the Near East and North Africa better manage this precious resource, the UN agency said Monday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Heavy rains leading to an El Nino climate event will affect nearly a million people in Southern Somalia, leading to a humanitarian crisis worse than the 2011 drought that attracted worldwide attention, UN officials warned Thursday. Full text...

Praia, Cap Verde (PANA) - Cape Verde has set aside 4.9 million Euros for conducting the fifth general census of its agricultural sector in October, an official of the country's Ministry of Rural Development, Eva Ortet, said here Wednesday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Prices for major food commodities in July hit their lowest average monthly level since September 2009, as sharp drops in the prices of dairy products and vegetable oils more than offset some increases for those of sugar and cereals. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - An increasing number of countries is ratifying an international agreement to combat illegal fishing, fueling interest in how best to implement the instrument, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a statement obtained by PANA here Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Contract farming – an expanding practice in which farmers produce agricultural goods for specific buyers in set quantities at prearranged prices – is getting a new tool to guide growers and buyers in establishing sound contracts and conflict resolution procedures. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Niger and the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Tuesday signed an agreement to finance the Family Farming Development Programme (FFDP) in Maradi, Tahoua and Zinder regions of the West African country. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - A project in Senegal to eradicate tsetse flies that is jointly supported by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been selected as one of 18 Best Sustainable Development Practices on Food Security at the ongoing EXPO Milano 2015. Full text...

Balaclava, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius Thursday signed its national Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Compact which is Africa’s policy framework for agricultural transformation, wealth creation, food security and nutrition, economic growth and prosperity for all. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Fears are growing that without timely intervention to stem the outbreak of the highly virulent avian flu virus H5N1 across West Africa, further spread across the region and beyond is inevitable, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Monday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The European Union (EU) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have launched a new partnership agreement to boost food and nutrition security, sustainable agriculture and resilience in at least 35 countries. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Highlighting the historic opportunity to become the "Zero Hunger generation", FAO Director-General José Graziano Da Silva on Wednesday called for additional investments in social protection and rural development. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – “Investing in the well-being of our planet and halting climate change should not be seen as a ‘cost’, but as a worthwhile investment," UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark said on Wednesday during a visit to Africa’s largest gene bank in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) –The President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Kanayo F. Nwanze, is due in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Thursday for discussions with high-level government officials on how investing in the agricultural sector can contribute to food security, improve nutrition besides creating jobs for rural women and youth, the UN agency announced in Rome Monday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Eradicating world hunger by 2030 will require the injection of an estimated US$267 billion per year on average for investments in rural and urban areas and in social protection, so that poor people will have access to food and can improve their livelihoods, according to a new UN report. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Favourable worldwide conditions for cereal crops will lead Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) plans to boost development in the Sudan during the coming two fiscal years with US$700, according to a report by the SUNA news agency Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - After separating from Sudan four years ago, South Sudan bubbled with great hope for the future, but this hope was dashed as the world's newest nation has since been battered by violence and political crisis. Full text...