East African countries better prepared, but desert locust threat ‘not over’: FAO

20 january 2021 - 06:06:44 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Action to control unprecedented desert locust infestations in the Horn of Africa last year has protected crops and livelihoods, but funding [...] Full text...

Malian PM inaugurates threshold of Kourouba dam to achieve food self-sufficiency

16 january 2021 - 16:51:31 KND

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian prime minister, Moctar Ouane, accompanied by several members of his government, inaugurated Friday the hydro-agricultural dam of the Kourouba [...] Full text...

UN reports major progress towards eradicating sheep and goat plague

14 january 2021 - 05:30:54 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The world is moving closer to stamping out a highly contagious disease that affects sheep and goats, but also the livelihoods of millions [...] Full text...

AfDB pledges to mobilise $6.5 billion in support of the Great Green Wall Initiative

11 january 2021 - 15:42:04 AR

Paris, France (PANA) - The Sahel region's Great Green Wall Initiative received a major boost from the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Monday, during a [...] Full text...

IFAD, GCF scale-up action to improve life for millions, restore ecosystems in Africa’s Great Green Wall

11 january 2021 - 14:07:20 AR

Paris, France (PANA) – Millions of poor farmers living in the world’s most climate-impacted parts of the Sahel have cause for hope today because of [...] Full text...

Coronavirus: Madagascar faces severe food security and nutrition crisis

23 december 2020 - 18:46:38 AR

Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - Following three consecutive years of drought, the Grand Sud of Madagascar is facing a severe food security and nutrition crisis, the [...] Full text...

Mali, Germany sign 56 billion Fcfa deals to support priority development projects

22 december 2020 - 15:51:51 MTA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali and Germany on Monday in Bamako signed five finance  agreements for about  56 billion CFA francs to support Mali in [...] Full text...

ECOWAS produces only 60% of its rice needs

22 december 2020 - 13:00:07 BBA

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Local rice production accounts for only 60% of the needs of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the [...] Full text...

Fruits, vegetables crucial for healthy lives, sustainable world: Guterres

22 december 2020 - 07:03:18 MA

New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations is marking 2021 as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, spotlighting their vital role in human [...] Full text...

Africa Free Trade agreement to boost agriculture

21 december 2020 - 13:35:30 AO

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), due to launch in January 2021, is likely to be a watershed for African regional [...] Full text...

Mauritian PM encourages local production of food crops

17 december 2020 - 12:33:17 NA

Moka, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Prime Minister Pravin Jugnauth on Thursday urged the population to work for agricultural self-sufficiency by encouraging the local production [...] Full text...

World Bank supports Morocco’s Green Generation Strategy

16 december 2020 - 16:07:49 AR

Washington DC, US (PANA) - The World Bank Board has approved a US$250 million (EUR 214.2 million) programme to support Morocco’s agriculture sector’s Green Generation [...] Full text...

Desert Locust ‘re-invasion’ threatens millions in Horn of Africa: FAO

16 december 2020 - 11:52:06 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - New Desert Locust swarms are forming in the Horn of Africa, threatening agricultural livelihoods and food security of millions of people, [...] Full text...

IFAD joins partners to build resilience, boost development in the Sahel

10 december 2020 - 18:45:45 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has joined the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme [...] Full text...

WFP chief uses Nobel speech as call for action to avert ‘hunger pandemic’

10 december 2020 - 17:05:30 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) - With 270 million people – more than the entire population of Western Europe – “marching toward starvation”, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) called for greater action to avert a [...] Full text...

Eliminating poverty and hunger tops global agenda as countries pledge funds to IFAD

08 december 2020 - 13:39:39 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) – As hunger and poverty increase due to conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the world’s poorest countries are the first [...] Full text...

South African steak receives highest world rating

08 december 2020 - 12:31:38 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A cut of South African Wagyu ribeye meat has received the highest rating in the world for its quality. Prime [...] Full text...

Benin recorded lower sorghum, millet and gari prices in mid-November

08 december 2020 - 11:20:14 BBA

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Sorghum, millet and gari, grated cassava flour, which staple foods in Benin, were cheaper on the markets in mid-November, according to [...] Full text...

Coronavirus: Germany avails €27.3 million to IFAD to help avert a pandemic food crisis

07 december 2020 - 13:16:24 AR

Rome,  Italy (PANA)- In view of a looming food crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Germany has committed €27.3 million to the UN’s International Fund [...] Full text...

Global food commodity prices rose to a nearly six-year high in November - FAO

03 december 2020 - 14:21:22 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Global food commodity prices rose sharply in November to their highest level in nearly six years, according to a benchmark United [...] Full text...

Address water scarcity ‘immediately and boldly’, urges FAO chief

26 november 2020 - 20:39:04 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - More than three billion people live in agricultural areas with high levels of water shortage and scarcity, the UN agriculture agency [...] Full text...

Fears of Desert Locust resurgence in Horn of Africa, reports FAO

24 november 2020 - 15:09:45 AR

Fears of Desert Locust resurgence in Horn of Africa, reports FAO   Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) – The Desert Locust crisis which struck the greater Horn of Africa [...] Full text...

Kenya faces risk of second locust invasion, warns FAO

22 november 2020 - 15:14:27 DJ

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Sunday warned that Kenya faced an imminent second wave of locust invasion, an official source [...] Full text...

Netherlands donates $1million to help Tunisian small farmers cope with COVID-19 crisis

20 november 2020 - 17:46:43 KND

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A grant agreement, worth US$ 1 million, was signed on Friday between the Tunisian Union of Social Solidarity (UTSS) and the [...] Full text...

New desert locust swarms spreading across southern Somalia: FAO

20 november 2020 - 10:36:17 AO

Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Friday that large populations of Desert Locust in Somalia have moved towards southern [...] Full text...

Second IFAD credit rating to help increase investments against poverty, hunger

19 november 2020 - 12:56:55 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The prospect of eradicating hunger and poverty received a boost on Thursday as the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) [...] Full text...

Four Congolese organisations get 390.5 million CFAF for development of commercial agriculture

18 november 2020 - 11:28:57 BBA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo's Commercial Agriculture Development Support Project (PDAC) on Tuesday signed partnership agreements with four public organsations totalling 390.5 million CFA Francs [...] Full text...

Benin's cotton production stands at 675,000 tons in 2020

17 november 2020 - 16:07:51 MTA

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin has produced 675,000 tons of cotton this year compared to 714,000 tons during the last farming campaign, official sources said [...] Full text...

Benin fixes soybean price at 175 FCFA per kilo

15 november 2020 - 11:39:26 MTA

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The government of Benin has set the minimum price of soybeans at 175 FCFA per kilo for the 2020/2021 crop year. According [...] Full text...

Climate finance neglects small-scale farmers – new report

12 november 2020 - 13:39:35 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Only 1.7 per cent of climate finance – a fraction of what is needed - goes to small-scale farmers in developing [...] Full text...

€300 million loan from AFD to IFAD to support millions of small-scale farmers

12 november 2020 - 13:37:19 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) - In an effort to tackle the devastating impact of climate change on rural hunger and poverty, the French development agency, Agence [...] Full text...

U.S. grants $20 million to buy wheat to help Sudanese people

07 november 2020 - 10:13:24 MO

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced the intention of the United States government, subject to Congressional approval, to [...] Full text...

Niger: AfDB grants US$35m to ensure food security for 1.5 million people in rural areas

31 october 2020 - 03:31:10 VAO

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Friday donated US$ 35.4 million to the government of [...] Full text...

FAO emphasises women's role in African agriculture

29 october 2020 - 23:48:20 AO

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Women in Africa are the backbone of their households, communities and rural economies, as food producers, processors and marketers, a new [...] Full text...

FAO builds momentum for restoring forests as world enters key decade for ecosystems

29 october 2020 - 06:35:39 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is leading a push for the world to scale up efforts to restore landscapes and forests over the [...] Full text...

Pan African body holds conference on food

26 october 2020 - 19:37:36 MLJ

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) will organize a conference, running from October 27 to 29, organizers revealed to [...] Full text...

EU gives Congo more than one billion Euros for agro-pastoral groupings

21 october 2020 - 21:41:57 MSA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The European Union (EU) ambassador in Congo, Raul Mateus Paula, said here Tuesday his organisation would give about 1.096 million Euros [...] Full text...

Sudan’s record wheat harvest proves success of AfDB’s agricultural transformation programme

20 october 2020 - 16:06:55 AR

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Despite coronavirus-related lockdowns, travel and transport restrictions, Sudan has just recorded its largest wheat harvest, according to the African Development Bank [...] Full text...

African leaders call for increased investment in IFAD to end rural hunger, poverty

19 october 2020 - 18:37:30 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA)  - Ten African Heads of State have issued a strong call to other world leaders to increase their funding to the International [...] Full text...

New technology helps citrus farmers in South Africa to increase harvest yields

19 october 2020 - 13:04:41 AR

Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - A new technology is set to give the local citrus industry a boost to cement its position as South Africa’s [...] Full text...

UN agencies stress urgent need to strengthen food systems as COVID-19 drives up numbers of hungry people

16 october 2020 - 18:58:07 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday joined its sister agencies in calling for global action to improve the systems [...] Full text...

IFAD gives Congo 500.000 USD for small cassava producers

14 october 2020 - 21:32:27 MSA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide 500,000 US dollars to support a new cassava initiative in the Congo, [...] Full text...

Nigeria’s Food Reserve stock now 109,657 tonnes

14 october 2020 - 10:46:12 MON

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono has announced that the country's strategic food reserves has risen [...] Full text...

Prices of several staples up to multi-month highs in September – FAO report

08 october 2020 - 12:51:27 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) - While new forecasts for global cereal output, utilisation, stocks and trade all point to well-supplied markets, UN Food and Agriculture Organization [...] Full text...

Coronavirus: FAO calls for transformational change in management of forests and food systems

06 october 2020 - 12:46:01 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Transformational change is needed in the way countries manage forests and their biodiversity, people  produce and consume foods and interact with [...] Full text...

Senegal launches agricultural project to stem the flow of youth from rural areas

01 october 2020 - 15:35:30 MTA

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - The government of Senegal, in partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), launched on Wednesday in Ziguinchor, in the [...] Full text...

AfDB grants US$27 million loan to develop agricultural value chains in Madagascar

30 september 2020 - 19:27:47 VAO

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Tuesday approved a loan of US$ 27 million to [...] Full text...

Senegal launches agricultural project for food security and financial power for people south of country

25 september 2020 - 15:07:51 MTA

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - The African Network for Integrated Development (RADI), in its fight to ensure food security for vulnerable groups, launched Thursday in the [...] Full text...

Congo, EU, WFP sign tripartite framework to implement ''Promanioc project''

24 september 2020 - 18:19:29 KND

50Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government, European Union (EU) and the World Food Program (WFP) signed here Thursday a tripartite monitoring framework to implement [...] Full text...

Red locusts invade Zambia

22 september 2020 - 13:36:15 MM

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian Agriculture Minister, Michael Katambo, has confirmed the invasion of red locusts in the country and disclosed that government will this [...] Full text...