To review relief efforts being undertaken Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia with his high level delegation today visited drought…
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Africa, America ministers set to improve agriculture
The ministers of agriculture of Africa including Mali, Rwanda and and the Americas on Wednesday launched common agenda focusing on…
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Nominations for Africa Food Prize 2022 opens
The Africa Food Prize committee today announced the launch for 2022 nominations for the Africa Food Prize, which awards $100,000…
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Ethiopia expands irrigation wheat farms
The number of regions in Ethiopia and volumes of land covered with irrigation wheat farming in has been showing an…
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Africa’s most populous country set to boost agriculture
With the objective of impacting the lives of millions of people in Africa’s most populous country, the African Development Bank’s…
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Report focuses on African agrifood industry organizations
The “Agri-Food Industry Organizations (AFIOs) as Change Agents” report has been launched today during a webinar organized by AGRA (Alliance…
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Reducing aflatoxin in crops in Rwanda
To help farmers and grain traders reduce the prevalence of aflatoxins in crops and grains in Rwanda, the United Nations…
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Africa to experience steep drop in staple crops by 2050
Staple crops in eight African countries could decrease by as much as 80 percent by 2050 in some areas if…
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High-level UN delegation to visit farmers in Egypt
A high-level delegation of Executive Board members and senior staff of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) began an…
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Pay enough for rural small-scale farmers IFAD boss urges
It is an outrage that rural small-scale farmers in developing countries, who grow a third of our global food, are…
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Global food systems must be disrupted and changed – new IFAD report
Transforming global food systems to become more inclusive, fair and sustainable may seem an insurmountable challenge, yet there are concrete…
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Research Institute wins 2021 Africa Food Prize
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has been awarded the 2021 Africa Food Prize, for work…
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