Cotonou hosts international meeting on food security

06 november 2019 - 23:40:30 MSA

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Cotonou Wednesday began hosting an international technical conference on the “Efficient Approaches to fight against Malnutrition and scale-up Potential” within the [...] Full text...

Togo set to market 78,000 tonnes of soybeans for 2019-2020 season

06 november 2019 - 14:23:58 KND

Lome, Togo (PANA) - Togo is counting on 78,000 tons of soybeans for the 2019-2020 marketing year, PANA learnt from the Ministry of Agriculture on [...] Full text...

Chinese donkey skin harvesting: A threat to traditional draught power and food security

05 november 2019 - 21:16:05 M S

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Chinese harvesting of donkey skins in Botswana and in some parts of Africa poses a big threat to the existence [...] Full text...

Agribusiness: Africa’s New Investment Frontier (An AfDB Feature)

05 november 2019 - 19:36:49 VAO

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - In the past decade, a stroll along the aisles of any African supermarket is revealing: there is a new wave [...] Full text...

American businessmen to invest in Congo's agro-pastoral sector

05 november 2019 - 08:51:45 BBA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Businessmen from the US Eagle Business Solutions Company have expressed their desire to develop Congo's agro-pastoral sector after a meeting with Prime [...] Full text...

Niger starts largest hydro-agricultural rehabilitation works

04 november 2019 - 17:31:29 KND

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger's President Issoufou Mahamadou, on Monday kicked off work to rehabilitate the Birni N'Konni irrigated area (420 km east of Niamey) [...] Full text...

Japan gives Congo 1 billion CFAF for rice project

02 november 2019 - 14:42:18 KND

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Japan has made available 1.1 billion CFA francs to Congo for a rice project in the country, following an agreement signed [...] Full text...

UN agencies, partners seek US$89.5m to assist people affected by food insecurity in Zambia

30 october 2019 - 11:47:13 AR

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The UN and inter-governmental organizations (INGOs) are seeking US$89.5 million to provide immediate humanitarian assistance and early recovery support for people [...] Full text...

Tunisia: AfDB to hold a seminar on the use of drones in agriculture

29 october 2019 - 19:16:29 KND

Tunis Tunisia (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) will organize a seminar in Tunis on Wednesday to complete the pilot project on using drones [...] Full text...

UN to provide technical assistance to farmers in Southern Africa

28 october 2019 - 18:44:03 T Z

New York, USA (PANA) - The United Nations (UN) Deputy Spokesperson, Farhan Haq, says the international body’s different organs are working to provide farmers in [...] Full text...

Tunisia to produce 340,000 tonnes of dates this year

28 october 2019 - 11:47:28 BBA

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A total of 340,000 tonnes of dates will be produced this year in Tunisia, up from 289,000 tonnes in 2018 and [...] Full text...

FAO holds first regional conference on improving water production in Middle East and North Africa

26 october 2019 - 12:20:42 MTA

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)  -  The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced here Friday it would hold its first regional conference on improving water production [...] Full text...

Chad sets up 80-million-euro project to boost its agricultural sector

22 october 2019 - 16:21:48 KND

Paris, France (PANA) - An 81.9-million-euro project has been awarded to Chad to help more than one million vulnerable smallholder farmers improve their incomes and [...] Full text...

Cote d'Ivoire to hold Fifth International Agricultural and Animal Resources Fair next month

22 october 2019 - 10:54:32 BBA

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The Fifth International Agricultural and Animal Resources Fair (SARA) will be held from 22 November to 1 December in Abidjan, the [...] Full text...

ITFC, OCP Africa sign agreement to increase African farmers' incomes

21 october 2019 - 22:13:02 KND

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA)  -  The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) and OCP Africa Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on strategic financing, [...] Full text...

FAO calls on Congolese to respect the food chain

17 october 2019 - 13:39:49 KND

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative, Suze Percy Filippini, on Wednesday urged producers and consumers in Congo Brazzaville to improve [...] Full text...

FAO, Danone team up to foster sustainable diets and food systems

17 october 2019 - 08:24:18 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA)  -The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Danone have agreed to work together to improve global nutrition and food safety knowledge, [...] Full text...

Mali celebrates international rural women, food days

16 october 2019 - 21:45:50 MSA

Bamako, Mali (PANA)   -  The Malian minister of women, child and family promotion, Dr Diakité Aïssata Kassa Traoré, Tuesday presided over twin activities marking the [...] Full text...

47,653 tonnes of coffee cherries collected in Burundi

16 october 2019 - 13:52:38 MTA

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Some 47,653 tonnes of cherry coffee has been collected for the 2019-2020 coffee season, out of a forecast of 75,000 tonnes, [...] Full text...

Chinese trawler fined US$1 million for fishing with illegal nets in Ghana waters

15 october 2019 - 07:19:13 MA

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A Chinese trawler, Lu Rong Yuan Yu 956, has been fined US$1 million for fishing with illegal nets in Ghanaian waters. The local media [...] Full text...

Niger: Cereal prices fall due to the availability of new harvests

14 october 2019 - 19:30:17 MTA

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Average cereal prices dropped in Niger during the month of October due to the availability of new harvests in the agricultural [...] Full text...

Senegalese Minister of Agriculture announces project to support 150,000 young people

14 october 2019 - 19:06:39 KND

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - Moussa Baldé, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Senegal, has announced an ambitious agricultural project that will support 150,000 [...] Full text...

Stakeholders urge private sector to address aflatoxins in ensuring food security in East Africa

09 october 2019 - 15:30:14 TWA

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA)  - With growing concerns on food security in the region, the East African Grains Council (EAGC) on Wednesday called for the [...] Full text...

US parliamentary mission in Niger to discuss food security

08 october 2019 - 17:34:44 KND

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - An exchange of ideas was held Tuesday in the Prime Minister's Office, members of the Nigerien government and a bipartisan delegation [...] Full text...

Germany trains Libyan farmers in processing quality products

08 october 2019 - 16:42:50 KND

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 19 Libyan farmers from various municipalities are being trained in local processing of quality products, the German embassy [...] Full text...

Japan supports Niger's agricultural production with US$14 million

07 october 2019 - 12:08:34 BBA

Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Japanese government has given Niger two grants amounting to 1.494 billion yen (about US$14 million) to support the West African country's [...] Full text...

ADF supports Benin's cashew nut sector

06 october 2019 - 14:19:01 MTA

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The African Development Fund (ADF) will support Benin's cashew nut sector with a loan of CFAF 5.7 billion, according to sources [...] Full text...

Game and challenges facing privatization policies of the coffee sector in Burundi (Analysis)

04 october 2019 - 16:53:12 KND

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundi government plans to "intervene, coordinate and monitor all links in the coffee sector chain", following a series of failures [...] Full text...

Enough food being produced but hunger on the rise in parts of the world - UN

04 october 2019 - 07:57:25 MA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Enough food is produced today to feed everyone on the planet, but hunger is on the rise in some parts of the [...] Full text...

Eswatini, IFAD partner to boost inclusive financial services for smallholder farmers

02 october 2019 - 12:28:31 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) - About 30,900 rural people in Eswatini will benefit from a new US$38.5 million project that aims to improve the prosperity and [...] Full text...

Cote d'Ivoire cocoa price set at 825 CFAF per kilo

01 october 2019 - 15:01:45 KND

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - Côte d'Ivoire's Coffee-Cocoa Board chairman Yves Brahim Kone on Tuesday announced the official opening of the cocoa marketing campaign. He said the [...] Full text...

National days of cocoa open in Cote d'Ivoire

01 october 2019 - 13:25:40 KND

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - 'Cote d'Ivoire is cocoa, cocoa is Côte d'Ivoire'  read the banner announcing the national cocoa and chocolate days that opened [...] Full text...

55 African countries set to develop climate-resilient agriculture systems

30 september 2019 - 19:20:58 TWA

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA)- Fifty-five African countries have signed a five-point declaration to increase the climate adaptation and resilience of the continent’s food systems and support [...] Full text...

Kolda to become Senegal’s second peanut basin

25 september 2019 - 17:51:46 MSA

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) – The Senegalese southern region of Kolda is becoming the country’s second peanut basin as farmers in the region are more and [...] Full text...

Commitments worth US$790 million made to enhance resilience for small-scale farmers

24 september 2019 - 05:52:55 T Z

New York, USA (PANA) – The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank and several governments announced financial commitments of US$790 million and assistance to [...] Full text...

AfDB, partners organize West Africa Fertilizer Financing Forum in Abidjan

23 september 2019 - 19:57:47 VAO

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB), the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) and the West Africa Fertilizer Association will hold the [...] Full text...

Africa to witness more food insecurity due to climate change

23 september 2019 - 05:41:51 T Z

New York, USA (PANA) – Climate change will see food insecurity grow in African countries, among other regions, if no concrete actions are taken to [...] Full text...

Cape Verde involves army in fight against locust invasion

21 september 2019 - 08:20:36 KND

Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - The Cape Verde government is stepping up its campaign against a locust invasion with the support of the army, the [...] Full text...

Senegal: ANIDA farms changing people's lives (Feature) by NDAO Khadijanda

19 september 2019 - 22:39:52 KND

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA)   -   Farms of the National Agency for Integration and Agricultural Development of Senegal (ANIDA) are changing the lives of many people in [...] Full text...

Congo creates separate development agencies for agriculture and fisheries

19 september 2019 - 12:42:26 BBA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese government announced on Wednesday the creation of the National Agency for Agriculture  and Livestock Development and the Agency for [...] Full text...

Mauritius launches three new varieties of tomato

16 september 2019 - 14:06:51 NA

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Food and Agricultural Research Extension Institute (FAREI) of Mauritius on Monday launched three new varieties of tomato developed locally, [...] Full text...

Army worms risk undermining agricultural policies, says Nigerien President

13 september 2019 - 11:47:47 BBA

Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Niger's president Issoufou Mahamadou warned on Thursday that the fall army worms risk undermining all agricultural policies in Africa. He said if [...] Full text...

Congo: Eco-Oil energy, Chinese Camaco sign agric partnership agreement

12 september 2019 - 17:36:10 KND

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese company, Eco-Oil Energy, and the Chinese Camaco on Wednesday signed a partnership agreement to promote the mechanization of agriculture [...] Full text...

First Agricultural Science Exchange Forum opens in Mauritius

12 september 2019 - 13:50:41 NA

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-industry and Food Security minister Mahen Seeruttun on Thursday said that “Mauritius is among the most exposed countries to [...] Full text...

FAO commits to support Congo to reach the 'Zero hunger' goal

12 september 2019 - 12:34:31 BBA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will support Congo to develop its agriculture and fight against hunger, FAO regional director [...] Full text...

Niger: the overall situation of the 2019 agropastoral campaign is generally satisfactory

12 september 2019 - 00:06:37 KND

Niamey, Niger (PANA)   -   The last ten days of August 2019 was characterized by moderate to heavy rains over most of Niger, with cumulative rainfall [...] Full text...

WAEMU hands over silos for San in central Mali to Malian government

03 september 2019 - 22:05:34 MSA

Bamako, Mali (PANA)   -   The Malian minister of agriculture, Moulaye Ahamed Aboubacar, Tuesday presided over the handing over ceremony of storage stores for crops built [...] Full text...

Somalia to see worst harvest since 2011, with more than 2 million expected to go hungry

03 september 2019 - 20:22:38 MA

Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Somalia’s 2019 cereal harvest is the poorest the country has seen since 2011, when famine strained already scarce resources, the UN Food [...] Full text...

24% of the total food insecure people in the world live in IGAD region - Report

02 september 2019 - 18:18:17 MO

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A report by the East and Central African authority on development on Sunday said climatic shocks, conflict and economic instability have [...] Full text...

Senegal: Two billion CFA francs for rice producers in the south of the country

02 september 2019 - 17:17:22 KND

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - The Rapid Entrepreneurship Delegation (DER), initiated by President Macky Sall, on Saturday launched a program to structure the rice value chain [...] Full text...