Tunisia, FAO sign two technical cooperation deals
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian minister of Agriculture, Fishing and Sea Resources and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Wednesday signed deals [...] Full text...
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Covid-19: Pandemic makes Mauritians aware of food security, self-sufficiency
NA Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-Industry and Food Security minister Maneesh Gobin said on Tuesday that the Covid-19 pandemic has made people aware of [...] Full text...
Data-driven advisory services are key for Africa’s agricultural development - AfDB
VAO Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - What are some of the barriers preventing small farmers in Africa from adopting digital advisory services? What do we mean [...] Full text...
AfDB elevates Kenyan Wambui Gichuri to post of VP Agric, Human and Social Development
VAO Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has announced the promotion of Wambui Gichuri to the post of Acting Vice President, [...] Full text...
COVID-19: DRC and IFAD partner for better nutrition, resilience for small-scale farmers facing pandemic
AR Rome, Italy (PANA) - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on Friday announced support for a new programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo [...] Full text...
China donates 6,000 tonnes of rice to Niger
KND Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The People's Republic of China on Wednesday in Niger, donated 5,959 tonnes of rice, valued at 50 million Yuan (about 4.1 [...] Full text...
World Bank provides US$150 million to Niger for a water resources programme
KND Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The World Bank has approved additional funding of $150 million from the International Development Association (IDA) for the Water Resources Development [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: UN food agency warns that tens of million could go hungry because of pandemic
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - Tens of millions more people are likely to go hungry this year because of the COVID-19 crisis, the UN World Food [...] Full text...
Malian elected president of African Rural and Agricultural Credit Association
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Moustapha Ben Barka of Mali and vice president of the West African Development Bank (BOAD) has been elected president of the [...] Full text...
Togo avails over 120,000 tonnes of inputs for farmers in 2020-21 crop season
KND Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo has made more than 120,000 tonnes of agricultural inputs available to farmers for the 2020-2021 campaign, PANA learned from official [...] Full text...
Without funds, ‘no choice’ but to suspend most aid flights, warns WFP
AR Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday issued a critical warning, declaring that it may soon have “no choice” but [...] Full text...
As climate change ravages Southern Africa, two Zimbabwean farmers turn to drone irrigation (Feature by Tatira Zwinoira)
T Z Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Nathan Zecks Mazvazva, aged 25, remembers standing in the center of his 15-acre sugar cane field in January marveling at the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: AfDB unveils roadmap to safeguard food security in Africa
AO Abidjan, Cote d' Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has unveiled a strategic roadmap of projects and programmes to assist African countries in [...] Full text...
From farm to fork: Women championing agricultural transformation in Africa (An AfDB Feaure)
VAO Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - From Sudan to Mali, Senegal to Mozambique, and Zambia to Mauritania, women are changing the face of agriculture, adapting and [...] Full text...
Togo targets to produce 152,000 tons of cotton in 2020-2021 season
MTA Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo aims to produce at least 152,000 tonnes of cotton for the 2020-2021 season, after the poor harvest of the previous [...] Full text...
Malian government offers 35 billion CFAF subsidy to the cotton sector
KND Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian government will grant an exceptional subsidy of CFAF 35 billion to the cotton sector, in the form of a [...] Full text...
China supports Gambia's agricultural sector with machinery, equipment and fertiliser
MSS Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Chinese government has donated agricultural machinery, equipment and fertiliser to Gambia's farming community, the minister of agriculture, Ms. Amie Fabureh, [...] Full text...
IFAD-backed projects boost agricultural productivity, incomes in Madagascar: Report
DJ Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - Rural development projects financed and supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have helped to reduce rural poverty and [...] Full text...
Congolese government calls for more investment in agriculture
KND Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese Minister of State for Agriculture and Livestock, Henri Djombo, on Wednesday stressed the need to invest more in the [...] Full text...
Covid-19: Germany grants €24 million to Niger to prop up resilience-building efforts
KND Niamey, Niger (PANA) - German ambassador to Niger, Nicolai Hermann, announced n Wednesday that his country has contributed an additional 24 million euros to the [...] Full text...
Niger: Government sets agro-pastoral campaign plan for 39,233,618,301 CFAF for 2020-2021
MSA Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The minister of Agriculture, Albadé Abouba, Monday told parliament here that the Nigerien government had prepared a 2020-2021 agro-pastoral campaign plan [...] Full text...
Tanzanian expert, Bhunu, joins UN sustainable agriculture body
DJ Rome, Italy (PANA) - Tanzania's Sara Mbago-Bhunu, is among 22 renowned experts from across the Global South who are joining a major new Commission on [...] Full text...
Burkina Faso expects to produce 550,000 tonnes of seed cotton in 2020/21 season
BBA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso expects a production of 550,000 tonnes of seed cotton for the 2020-2021 season, the government announced on Thursday [...] Full text...
Kenya government, coastal counties seal fishermen income-boosting deal
DJ Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives has signed an agreement with five Coastal county governments to enhance incomes from [...] Full text...
Humanitarian agency says new swarms of locusts threaten to increase hunger in East Africa
MA Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Humanitarian agency Oxfam warned on Wednesday that millions of people in East and Central Africa, already suffering due to flooding and [...] Full text...
Botswana challenged to improve agricultural sector
DRW Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - A Botswana independent market analyst has challenged the government to improve agricultural infrastructure, skills, funding to improve the sector.
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'FAO does not foresee a locust invasion in Libya'
MSA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says its forecasts valid until mid-June indicate that locusts have not seen in southwest [...] Full text...
No locust threat in Tunisia, says Ministry of Agriculture
BBA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The locust situation in northwest Africa is currently not a cause for concern, Tunisia's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources [...] Full text...
Togo records poor cotton production for the 2019-2020 season
KND Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Cotton production for the 2019-2020 season gave a poor yield: 116,000 tonnes for a forecast of 150,000 tonnes, PANA reported on [...] Full text...
World Bank announces $500 million to fight locusts in Africa, Middle East
AR Washington, US (PANA) - The World Bank Group on Thursday approved a US$500 million programme to help countries in Africa and the Middle East fight [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Alarm bells ring in Nigeria as COVID-19 cripples poultry, fish farming
VAO Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - In Nigeria, the COVID-19 outbreak is already taking its toll on all sectors of the economy, including agriculture, with the pandemic [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Pandemic could deepen food insecurity, malnutrition in Africa - WHO
MA Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern at the potential impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on food security, which is likely [...] Full text...
Covid-19: Cashew nut marketing season takes off slowly in southern Senegal
MTA Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - After several weeks of uncertainty, the marketing season for cashew nuts in Casamance, southern Senegal, has got off to a tentative [...] Full text...
African Development Institute to hold webinar on agricultural policy responses to COVID-19 in Africa
VAO Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - On 18 and 19 May, 2020, the African Development Institute (ADI), together with the African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) [...] Full text...
An outbreak of African Swine Fever on a farm in south-west Togo
MTA Lomé, Togo (PANA) - An outbreak of the African Swine Fever is raging on a farm in southwest Togo, PANA was informed by official sources [...] Full text...
Togo recorded cereal surpluses of 70,000 tonnes in 2019
KND Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo recorded cereal surpluses estimated at 70,000 tonnes for the agricultural campaign last year, PANA learned on Tuesday in Lomé from [...] Full text...
Battle ‘not yet over’ against locust invasions in East Africa and Yemen - says FAO
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - Despite the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and other challenges, significant gains have been made against Desert Locust encroachment in East Africa and [...] Full text...
Togolese farmers receive 72 tractors from government to start new farming season
KND Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togolese farmers last week received 72 tractors worth 1.8 billion CFA francs from the government to start the 2020-2021 agricultural campaign, [...] Full text...
Zimbabwe opens Tobacco Marketing Season with COVID-19 caution
T Z Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement minister Perence Shiri has told the tobacco industry to continue implementing COVID-19 (coronavirus) risk reducing [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Banana sector in Casamance, Senegal, affected by coronavirus
MTA Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - The COVID 19 pandemic has left banana producers in Middle Casamance, southern Senegal, in disarray, with no buyers in sight, especially [...] Full text...
Drought decreases agricultural crops, livestock activity in Zimbabwe
T Z Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The 2019/20 agricultural season in Zimbabwe was marked by delay and false start throughout the country due to continued drought conditions, [...] Full text...
UN report rates Zimbabwe among top global food crises
T Z Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - A major deterioration in food insecurity is expected in Zimbabwe as a result of persisting economic difficulties, eroded household resilience, rainfall [...] Full text...
The 2020 rainy season is expected to be generally wet in the Sahelian countries
MTA Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The 2020 rainy season is expected to be wet overall, according to a press release issued from the 2020 Seasonal Forecasting [...] Full text...
Exiled ex-minister alleges corruption in Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe loans to resettled farm owners
T Z Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe's exiled former Higher Education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa alleges that political elites were key beneficiaries of US$1.35 billion in loans from [...] Full text...
Maritime line opened between Tunisia and Libya to export Tunisian agricultural products
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian Minister of Agriculture, Fishing and Hydraulic Resources Oussama Khriji said here Tuesday a maritime line linking Libya had been established [...] Full text...
Desert locust fight goes on in East Africa despite coronavirus crisis measures
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - Sustained efforts to contain East Africa’s worst invasion of desert locusts in decades are forging ahead, despite limits on the flow [...] Full text...
Burkina Faso moves to tame desert locust invasion
MTA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The ministry in charge of agriculture in Burkina Faso on Wednesday said it has developed a strategy to combat locust [...] Full text...
Libya: War, coronavirus and scare of food shortages among Libyans (News analysis by Youssef Ba, PANA correspondent)
MSA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Libya’s decade of a deadly armed conflict and the 4 April Tripoli war have thrown the country into insecurity and chaos, [...] Full text...
AfDB approves $1.5 million emergency grant to curb desert locusts East and Horn of Africa
MA Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank on Wednesday approved a $1.5 million emergency relief grant to assist [...] Full text...
UNAMID supports Sudan's combat of desert locusts
MO Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Peace keeping mission in Darfur has donated 10 off-road vehicles to the Sudanese Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, to [...] Full text...