21st edition of the National Farmer's Day opens next Thursday in Burkina Faso

20 april 2019 - 15:41:08 KND

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - More than 1,000 producers from Burkina Faso's 45 provinces are expected to attend the 21st edition of the National Farmer's [...] Full text...

Zimbabwe's Agricultural sector requires US$1,2 billion in yearly funding

19 april 2019 - 15:16:09 T Z

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe needs US$1,2 billion in yearly funding to effectively support the agricultural sector towards growth, a new agricultural sector survey has [...] Full text...

Togo to open training institute exclusively dedicated to aquaculture

18 april 2019 - 15:53:28 KND

Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The Training Institute for Agro-Development (IFAD) will open its doors next May in the city of Elavagnon, in the Plateaux region, [...] Full text...

USAID, World Cocoa Foundation initiate partnership to support women in Ivorian cocoa industry

17 april 2019 - 22:47:17 MSA

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA)   -   The US Agency for International Aid (USAID) and the World Cocoa Foundation, under a new public-private partnership, are to provide [...] Full text...

Meat shortages loom in Zimbabwe

17 april 2019 - 14:56:32 T Z

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe is facing potential shortages of pork, chicken and beef as government's removed grain subsidies last week increased stock feed prices [...] Full text...

Benin sets up National Agency for Agricultural Mechanization

13 april 2019 - 18:35:58 KND

Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Benin has set up a National Agency for Agricultural Mechanization (ANAMA), as approved by the last weekly council of ministers.   ANAMA will [...] Full text...

Mali aims at 1 million tonnes of seed cotton production in 2019/20

12 april 2019 - 11:53:38 BBA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali intends to produce for the 2019-2020 campaign, one million tonnes of seed cotton, the president of Mali's Permanent Assembly of [...] Full text...

Botswana to deal with food insecurity caused by poor rains

11 april 2019 - 18:12:16 M S

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana is posed to act in an emergency response to improve food and nutrition security caused by poor rains and devouring [...] Full text...

New report warns millions will be affected by food crisis in Horn of Africa

03 april 2019 - 10:00:57 TWA

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  There is a high risk of worsening food insecurity in parts of Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and Uganda if forecast rainfall deficits [...] Full text...

Zim Govt working with NGOs to pick the best soya bean seeds

02 april 2019 - 16:19:50 T Z

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Zimbabwean Government is working with four foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to choose high yielding soya bean seeds with a potential [...] Full text...

ZTA welcomes removal of 2% transfer tax on tobacco proceeds

01 april 2019 - 09:57:56 T Z

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA)- Zimbabwe Tobacco Association (ZTA) has welcomed the removal of the 2% transfer tax, introduced last year to increase government revenue, in the purchase [...] Full text...

Over 2 million Guineans are in food insecurity

28 march 2019 - 17:38:25 MSA

Conakry, Guinea (PANA) – Food insecurity affects 21.8% of families in Guinea, according to the latest report on the Global vulnerability, food security and nutrition [...] Full text...

Congo adopts national strategy to strengthen capacities of civil society organizations

26 march 2019 - 23:29:36 MSA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), Congolese sectoral executives, and civil society experts on Tuesday adopted here a national strategy [...] Full text...

Fall amyworm traced in Rodrigues

26 march 2019 - 15:19:12 NA

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-industry and Food Security minister Mahen Seeruttun on Tuesday informed Parliament that his ministry was made aware of the [...] Full text...

Liberia, IFAD partner to improve smallholder farmers’ incomes and climate resilience

25 march 2019 - 15:48:26 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA) -  About 10,000 cocoa smallholder producers in Liberia will benefit from a new US$47.6 million project that aims to improve their food [...] Full text...

SADC launches Regional Agricultural Policy

22 march 2019 - 13:32:15 M S

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states have launched the Regional Agricultural Policy (RAP), a food security, poverty eradication programme. The [...] Full text...

IFAD calls for South-South cooperation to combat hunger

22 march 2019 - 05:47:48 MSA

Paris, France (PANA) – The deputy president of the International Federation for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Cornelia Richter, has called for South-South cooperation to reduce poverty [...] Full text...

Experts agree project to improve agricultural production in West,Central Africa

22 march 2019 - 05:32:41 MTA

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Experts from the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) [...] Full text...

Mauritian youth urged to embrace agriculture

21 march 2019 - 17:04:04 NA

  Plaine Magnien, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-Industry and Food Security Minister Mahen Seeruttun, on Thursday urged the youth to embrace agriculture so that the island [...] Full text...

Burundi sets out to modernise agriculture

21 march 2019 - 08:44:50 MSA

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – With agriculture being the mainstay of the Burundian economy, the government has set out modernise the sector to guarantee food security [...] Full text...

Workshop on agricultural production in West and Central Africa begins in Dakar

20 march 2019 - 14:24:59 BBA

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – A validation workshop on a project to promote conservation agriculture in West and Central Africa began on Wednesday in Dakar, Senegal, [...] Full text...

Workshop on agricultural production in West and Central Africa opens in Dakar

19 march 2019 - 19:02:47 KND

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Weak agricultural production in West and Central Africa is partly linked to poor practice of conservation agriculture, which plays an important [...] Full text...

Conference on promoting private investment in agri-food in Africa holds in Paris

19 march 2019 - 14:08:10 BBA

Paris, France (PANA) – A conference, gathering major international development institutions, driven by the African Development Bank (AfDB), with the agri-food task force and the [...] Full text...

WFP gets involved in revival of Congo's agriculture sector

19 march 2019 - 10:52:56 BBA

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) will promote local food production in the Congo in order to ensure food security in the school [...] Full text...

Cape Verde hosts int'l forum on lack of water for agriculture

18 march 2019 - 18:04:01 KND

Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - Cape Verde will Tuesday hosts an international forum on the lack of water for agriculture, PANA learned from reliable sources [...] Full text...

Kenya sets aside US$20 million for food, water in drought-hit counties

18 march 2019 - 16:35:36 DJ

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan Government late Monday announced a US$20million funding to facilitate ongoing food relief programmes and water trucking in 13 counties [...] Full text...

Malian President IBK, African Cotton Association delegation discuss local transformation of cotton

17 march 2019 - 14:48:09 MTA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, and a delegation of the African Cotton Association (ACA), led by its Tanzanian Director General, [...] Full text...

Fruits, vegetables export yields CFA F 4 billion in Togo in 2017

15 march 2019 - 18:42:50 AKA

Lome, Togo (PANA) - Togo earned CFA F 4.5 billion in 2017, according to a report from the National Institute of Statistics, Economic and Demographic [...] Full text...

African Cotton Association meets in Mali

15 march 2019 - 11:37:54 BBA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The 17th African Cotton Association (ACA) meeting opened on Thursday in Bamako, Mali, with the participation of about 200 officials and [...] Full text...

Burundi unveils fertilizer plant capacity for 120,000 tons per year

14 march 2019 - 19:21:10 KND

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The first-ever local factory of "Organo-Mineral Industrial Fertilizers" (Fomi, that roduces 120,000 tons per year) has begun distributing samples of its [...] Full text...

Mauritius looks for a bright and prosperous agricultural sector

14 march 2019 - 16:43:34 NA

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-Industry and Food Security Minister Mahen Seeruttun on Thursday underlined the strategic importance of the agricultural sector in terms of food [...] Full text...

CAR and IFAD promote smallholder farmers’ resilience to climate change

12 march 2019 - 13:50:33 AR

Rome, Italy (PANA)  – Nearly 30,000 vulnerable households in Central African Republic (CAR) will be better equipped to deal with the fragility created by past [...] Full text...

Mali launches two projects aiming to attain national food self-sufficiency

09 march 2019 - 15:29:07 MSA

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Mali on Friday launched a regional support project under the Sahel irrigation initiative (PARIIS-Mali) to improve agricultural productivity and diversification in [...] Full text...

IFAD against gender disparities in agriculture

07 march 2019 - 19:33:21 MTA

Paris, France (PANA) - On the occasion of the International Women's Day celebrations, the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has launched a [...] Full text...

2 firms work together to combat food insecurity in southern Senegal

07 march 2019 - 18:44:36 KND

Ziguinchor, Senegal (PANA) - USAID-Kawalor and the Ninnaba Community Development Association are teaming up efforts to fight food insecurity in Fouladou-Pakaou, Kolda and Sédiou regions, [...] Full text...

Ivorian Minister condemns documentary on child labour in Ivorian plantations

04 march 2019 - 20:05:10 KND

Paris, France (PANA) - The Ivorian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mamadou Sangafowa Coulibaly, has strongly criticized a documentary on child labour in cocoa [...] Full text...

Three Maghreb agreements signed by Libya in the field of agriculture, livestock

02 march 2019 - 20:31:11 MTA

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has signed three agreements with the member countries of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia, [...] Full text...

Titanium firm in Kenya uses corporate power to benefit farmers (Analysis by Kennedy Abwao, PANA Correspondent)

02 march 2019 - 10:26:15 AO

Kwale, Kenya (PANA) – Esther Ngwadeta speaks highly of her newest trade. She managed a harvest of five kilograms of cotton from a two-acre farm. [...] Full text...

Mauritius launches Crop Loss Compensation Scheme for farmers

01 march 2019 - 08:26:05 NA

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - A Crop Loss Compensation Scheme for the benefit of small non-sugar planters registered with the Small Farmers Welfare Fund (SFWF) was [...] Full text...

Climate change could push 100 million people into poverty by 2030 (Declaration)

26 february 2019 - 22:33:31 MTA

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Climate change has an impact on resource availability; its impact on poverty is well documented: It is estimated that there could [...] Full text...

Niamey hosts summit of Sahel heads of state on climate

21 february 2019 - 14:49:41 MSA

Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Heads of State and Government of the Sahel region will on 25 February hold a summit meeting on climate change in [...] Full text...

Mali to host 2nd edition of International Cotton Forum

20 february 2019 - 13:34:39 KND

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Though a leading producer of cotton in sub-Sahara Africa, Mali still struggles to improve its cotton sector, according to local organisers [...] Full text...

5th Niger Agriculture, Hydraulics, Environment and Livestock Exhibition opens

20 february 2019 - 12:09:45 KND

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The 5th edition of the Niger Agricultural, Hydraulic, Environmental and Livestock Show, "Sahel Niger 2019'', opened on Wednesday in Niamey, under [...] Full text...

Libya resumes protection of artificial river threatened by theft, vandalism

19 february 2019 - 23:08:27 MTA

Tripoli, Libya  (PANA) – Libya’s Artificial River Authority announced Tuesday it had resumed the protection of the main source of potable water supply in Libya [...] Full text...

Deadly animal plague threatens cattle in Kenya’s pastoralist region

19 february 2019 - 16:29:48 AO

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – An outbreak of the deadly virus, Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), which causes running nose on goat and sheep and other [...] Full text...

Symposium on food security, renewable energy sources opens in Niamey

14 february 2019 - 11:53:03 MSA

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The second symposium on food security and renewable energy sources opened on Thursday in the Niger capital, Niamey, under the theme: [...] Full text...

World Bank assesses agricultural support programme in Congo

14 february 2019 - 11:38:22 KND

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - A World Bank supervision mission, led by Joanne Gaskell, has arrived in Congo to assess the level of implementation of the [...] Full text...

Africa hunger crisis rises with an additional 34 million people within four years, UN report

14 february 2019 - 10:22:00 AO

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A new United Nations report reveals hunger is on the rise in Africa following years of decline due to rising [...] Full text...

World warned about needless food-related illnesses, deaths

13 february 2019 - 05:26:21 MA

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Each year, food contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins or chemicals cause more than 600 million people to fall ill, [...] Full text...

AU Summit honours FAO Director-General for fighting hunger

12 february 2019 - 09:24:49 AO

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The African Union Summit has honoured the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Jose Graziano da Silva, for [...] Full text...