Republic of Korea supports smallholder farmers in Mozambique

15 september 2021 - 15:29:33 AR

Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has donated US$ 5.7 million to World Food Programme (WFP) for a project to support smallholder [...] Full text...

New report on African trade highlights opportunities, challenges for trade expansion

11 september 2021 - 18:59:23 AR

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The beginning of trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) presents significant opportunities to increase agricultural trade [...] Full text...

Bird flu outbreak confirmed in Botswana

10 september 2021 - 22:00:04 DRW

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has embarked on a countrywide surveillance to identify poultry houses infected by avian influenza or bird flu. The development comes after [...] Full text...

FAO is “working against time” on climate change - Director-General emphasises

08 september 2021 - 15:30:56 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Sustainable agri-food systems are a "critical part of the actions and solutions" to the climate crisis, food insecurity and biodiversity loss, [...] Full text...

Agroecology can address food systems failures - new IFAD report

08 september 2021 - 15:00:29 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) – In its first comprehensive assessment of agroecology, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced Wednesday that 60 percent of its [...] Full text...

AfDB sponsors virtual African Green Revolution Forum

07 september 2021 - 13:14:20 AR

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Development Bank returns as a top-tier partner of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) – Africa’s largest agriculture conference [...] Full text...

Agriculture stakeholders reflect on sustainable and resilient food systems for Africa

07 september 2021 - 12:47:07 BBA

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Farmers, heads of state, agricultural scientists and representatives of the private sector and civil society are gathering in Nairobi, Kenya, [...] Full text...

New farming programme put on hold in Botswana

03 september 2021 - 20:05:50 DRW

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Agriculture authorities in Botswana have announced intentions to transform the country’s arable farming, an official source said here Friday. Karabo Gare, the [...] Full text...

Botswana reports suspected bird flu outbreak

31 august 2021 - 11:10:55 DRW

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Agriculture authorities in Botswana have reported a suspected outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) in Bokaa village, adjacent [...] Full text...

Bird flu outbreak reported at two poultry farms in southern Benin

26 august 2021 - 11:39:02 BBA

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The Benin Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Gaston Dossouhoui, on Wednesday announced the outbreak of bird flu (H5N1) at two [...] Full text...

India extends a million USD for climate resilient agriculture in Zimbabwe

24 august 2021 - 13:57:03 AR

Harare , Zimbabwe (PANA) – India has contributed almost US$ one million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Zimbabwe to help affected [...] Full text...

Malian farmers target production of one million tonnes of cotton this year

22 august 2021 - 18:23:33 BBA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - "The objective is to reach one million tonnes of cotton, or even more, but, like the land, no one has 100% [...] Full text...

Mauritius to declare sandal wood protected plant

21 august 2021 - 08:57:47 NA

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The government of Mauritius has announced that it will declare sandal wood a protected plant, following numerous reports that several groups [...] Full text...

Zambia produces its largest maize crop on raised efficiency by smallholder farmers

18 august 2021 - 13:18:31 AR

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Zambia produced its largest maize crop on record in the 2021/22 marketing year. This bumper crop of 3.6 million tons follows [...] Full text...

Malian Prime Minister visits agricultural areas in the south

07 august 2021 - 11:48:41 BBA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga on Friday inaugurated a potato conservation centre in  the city of Sikasso in the south, [...] Full text...

WFP urges inclusion of indigenous peoples in transforming food systems

06 august 2021 - 14:32:54 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) – It is important to include indigenous peoples in the process of transforming the world’s food systems, the Deputy Executive Director of [...] Full text...

IFAD reaches 123 million people in fight against hunger, poverty and exclusion

29 july 2021 - 13:41:00 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) - As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world pushing millions more people into hunger and poverty, the UN’s International Fund for [...] Full text...

Food systems transformation a ‘silver lining’ in COVID crisis: UN deputy chief

29 july 2021 - 05:35:24 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - A sustainable and prosperous planet can only be achieved through working together and in solidarity, the UN Deputy Secretary-General said on [...] Full text...

IFAD and partners announce coalition to support development banks’ financing of sustainable food systems

27 july 2021 - 14:05:08 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) – Creating sustainable and equitable food systems that benefit the world’s most vulnerable people will require substantial investments – by some estimates [...] Full text...

Together, we must tackle growing hunger, urges Guterres

27 july 2021 - 07:46:23 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Inefficient global food production is at the root of a huge rise in hunger as well as one-third of all emissions [...] Full text...

Farmers, the ‘lifeblood of our food systems’, deputy UN chief highlights, ahead of key summit

24 july 2021 - 16:14:33 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Farmers, especially women and indigenous people, work tirelessly to put food on our tables. UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed on Saturday [...] Full text...

Food systems ignoring needs of rural people doomed to fail - IFAD warns

24 july 2021 - 13:35:05 DJ

Rome, Italy (PANA) - If the world  ignores the challenges and needs of rural people in the poorest countries, attempts to create more equitable and sustainable [...] Full text...

Mauritius' tea sector facing competition from foreign producers

23 july 2021 - 09:05:52 NA

Ebene, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-industry Minister Maneesh Gobin on Friday said that the tea sector is facing competition from foreign producers and also the [...] Full text...

Mauritius to tackle food wastage

22 july 2021 - 08:10:53 NA

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-industry and Food Security Minister Maneesh Gobin on Wednesday launched the 2021 potato harvesting season with a call to [...] Full text...

Civil unrest turns South Africa’s food and agricultural sector upside down

21 july 2021 - 13:51:32 AR

Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - While specific costs and implications of the recent South African civil unrest to the food and agricultural sector are still [...] Full text...

Mauritius: Sugar production estimated at 270,000 tonnes this year

10 july 2021 - 08:18:00 NA

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture has estimated sugar production for 2021 at around 270,000 tonnes based on cane production of around [...] Full text...

' High food prices making it hard for millions of families to get enough to eat'

09 july 2021 - 07:05:53 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic combined with high food prices are making it hard for millions of families to [...] Full text...

AfDB supports creation of agricultural value chains in Côte d'Ivoire – President Adesina

08 july 2021 - 12:48:02 AR

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank will support Côte d'Ivoire in creating agricultural value chains to create more jobs and make economic [...] Full text...

National dialogue on food systems opens in Mauritius

08 july 2021 - 08:18:11 NA

Flacq, Mauritius (PANA) - National dialogue on food systems opened on Wednesday in several regions in Mauritius in a bid to build on the experience, [...] Full text...

IFAD props Tanzanian small-scale farmers to improve food security against COVID-19 pandemic

07 july 2021 - 14:58:11 AR

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide funding to assist 6,240 vulnerable small-scale farmers in rural Tanzania [...] Full text...

Morocco increases wheat and barley production estimate for 2021/22

03 july 2021 - 13:37:57 AR

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) – Banking on favourable weather conditions, Morocco has increased its wheat and barley production estimate for marketing year 2021/22 by 206 percent [...] Full text...

78 million to face chronic hunger in sub-Sahara Africa by 2050 – New study

03 july 2021 - 09:29:15 AR

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - In order to prevent the impacts of climate change from pushing an additional 78 million people into chronic hunger by 2050, annual global investments in agricultural research and development will [...] Full text...

New dawn in Nigeria’s seed industry

30 june 2021 - 12:54:28 AR

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s plant breeders now have intellectual property rights over a new plant variety with exclusive rights to commercialise seeds and propagate [...] Full text...

Nigeria steps up oilseeds production due to increased domestic and export demand

26 june 2021 - 12:09:00 AR

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria’s palm kernel oilseed production in marketing year 2021/22 is forecast to reach 900,000 metric tons, up by 23 percent beyond [...] Full text...

Mozambique: AfDB, Italian Technical Cooperation Fund extend €990,000 grant to boost agricultural value chains

24 june 2021 - 13:43:29 AR

Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - The African Development Bank, with financing from the Italian Technical Cooperation Fund, has provided a €990,000 grant to help smaller agro-processing [...] Full text...

Coronavirus: South African citrus industry not seriously impacted by pandemic

22 june 2021 - 10:02:27 AR

Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – The production of South African citrus, mainly new orange varieties, lemons and limes, is estimated to continue its strong growth [...] Full text...

Mauritius launches and National Food System Dialogue

18 june 2021 - 07:01:08 NA

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius on Thursday launched the Partnership for Action on Green Recovery Fund project (PAGE) and the National Food System Dialogue. These will [...] Full text...

IFC and AfDB launch programme to support women farmers in Côte d’Ivoire

17 june 2021 - 15:46:24 AR

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) – In a bid to boost the professional capacities, incomes and access to finance of thousands of Ivorian women smallholder farmers [...] Full text...

Sudan, FAO and WFP call for investment in agriculture

14 june 2021 - 17:42:44 MO

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, along with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme [...] Full text...

World Food Safety Day: Innovative systems needed to raise productivity

06 june 2021 - 10:42:20 AR

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Member States of the United Nations on Monday celebrate  this year’s World Food Safety Day (WFSD) underlining food safety [...] Full text...

WHO,FAO mark World Food Safety Day June 7

04 june 2021 - 21:54:27 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - World Food Safety Day (WFSD), which falls on 7 June, aims to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect [...] Full text...

Avian Flu outbreak reported in South Africa

22 may 2021 - 09:58:08 AR

Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) – An outbreak of Avian Influenza in South Africa will derail export expansion plans by the country’s poultry industry through the [...] Full text...

Sugar producer unveils $238.5 million investment in Tanzania’s industry expansion

20 may 2021 - 07:07:10 AR

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Kilombero Sugar Company (KSC) has announced a new investment of $238.5 million (Tsh 571.6 billion) in a modern factory [...] Full text...

Nigeria struggles to attain self-sufficiency in sugar production

11 may 2021 - 10:41:32 AR

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria’s sugar industry is facing serious challenges despite efforts by the government to create self-sufficiency in sugar production and reduce raw [...] Full text...

Free up ‘bottlenecks’ stifling Africa’s agri-food sector, urges FAO chief

11 may 2021 - 06:24:46 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN agriculture chief warned on Monday that severe underfunding of Africa’s agri-food sector has boosted food insecurity and was hampering the [...] Full text...

Improved agronomic practices, favourable weather raise Kenya’s sugar output

07 may 2021 - 06:37:21 AR

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya’s sugar production is expected to increase in marketing year 2021/22 due to good weather, better agronomic and harvesting practices, and [...] Full text...

Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high, warns Global Report on Food Crises

05 may 2021 - 10:49:32 MA

Rome, Italy (PANA) – The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in [...] Full text...

Young people key to transforming world’s food systems: UN officials

05 may 2021 - 05:23:23 MA

New York, US (PANA) - Young people are taking a leading role in shaping fair and equitable food systems around the world, senior UN officials [...] Full text...

Development banks, partners pledge over $17 billion to increase food security in Africa

30 april 2021 - 17:14:36 VAO

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - A coalition of multilateral development banks and development partners has pledged over US$17 billion in financing to address rising hunger [...] Full text...

Burkina Faso: The purchase price of seed cotton to increase by 13%

30 april 2021 - 16:42:18 KND

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The purchase price of first choice seed cotton is set at 270 CFAF per kilogramme while the second choice is [...] Full text...