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Ethiopia: Food crisis blamed on disastrous policy compounded by killer disease in Amhara region
Ethiopian government has been forced to reduce food rations to some 5.3 million beneficiaries owing to a serious shortfall in food aid. Experts have...
Ethiopia: Invading locusts threatening vast areas
An invading swarm of desert locusts has hit vast areas of Ethiopia, threatening the country’s already overstretched food resources. In a report released this...
Ethiopian sesame production rakes in massive benefits
Ethiopia, Africa's largest sesame exporter, sold 1.18 million birr worth of sesame on the first day of trading through a new electronic trading system...
Tea pickers, dangerous sex and Kenya
Tea picking is a backbreaking job. But in dire need of jobs, some travel very far to work on Kenya's vast tea plantations. They...
Ugandan researchers awarded for agricultural contribution
The New African Women in Agricultural Research and Development Programme has awarded eight Ugandan female researchers with the outstanding agricultural award for their contribution...
Beyond oil : Akufo-Addo seeks to develop agriculture in northern Ghana
Nana Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate for Ghana’s ruling party, has pledged to invest part of the country’s future oil income in agriculture, hoping to turn...
Conservation farming can counteract fertiliser prices
As fertiliser and petrol prices zoom and threaten food production in Zambia, farmers are being urged to adopt conservation farming.
The price of a 50kg...
Fear of food shortage in Kenya
Erratic rainfall, soaring farming costs, and a shortage of materials in the western district of Mt Elgon could compromise food security in the region.
"The...
President Guebuza favours stiff competition between Mozambicans, Malawians
Mozambican leader Armando Guebuza has warned his people to desist from any attempt to prevent Malawian traders from operating in the country.
Addressing a rally...
Zimbabwe’s economy is heading for a crash
Robert Mugabe is never short of strategies to appease suffering Zimbabweans. On Wednesday he launched a new "cheap food hampers" on comprising basic...
South African winemaking a non-pecuniary industry the first 200 years
Take a hard-nosed investment banker out of the toughest business environment there is and transplant him to the gentler, quirkier world of winemaking, and...
Nigeria’s agricultural sector gets AfDB and World Bank support
The African Development Bank (AfDB) said it had committed US$ 250 million to the development of the downstream sector of agriculture in Nigeria, according...
New breed of tobacco farmers come to terms with reality
ZIMBABWE'S new breed of farmers created by Robert Mugabe's chaotic
and violent seizures of farmers from whites are a bitter lot. Those who ventured into...
Nigerian specialists find solution to climate change
Agriculture and environmental experts from across Nigeria at a seminar have outlined major ways by which countries can mitigate the effect of global climate...
Nigeria says no to rice imports amid widespread hunger
A decision by the Nigerian government to reverse an earlier decision to import 50,000 metric tonnes of rice from Thailand to ease supply pressures...
Ethiopia : Drought and high prices skyrocket food crisis
Food prices in Ethiopia have continued to soar with reports of an alarming hike of the cost of the cheapest grain, maize, in some...
South African farmers condemn land reform programme
Small-scale farmers from the Western and Northern Cape provinces in South Africa marched to Parliament on Friday in protest against government's "sluggish" land reform...
Ghanaian women in rural areas make headway towards development
Ghana's northern region may pass off to a visitor as a collection of savanna shrubs with nothing to offer to hunters of industrial raw...
Dangers of large scale biofuel production sounded by FAO
The UN food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned governments of the negative effects of large-scale production of biofuels, cautioning that rapid increases in...
Conference on semi-arid area development opens in Ethiopa
A conference on the improvement of the rural living conditions in Africa's semi-arid areas opens at the headquarters of the African Union (AU) Tuesday.
The...
Morocco : A plan to boost agriculture unveiled
Seeking to revive the agricultural sector in the face of an increasing global food crisis, the Moroccan government has decided to opt for a...
Ethiopia launches a commodity exchange to encourage local crop trade
Ethiopia opens a commodity exchange this week, the first of its kind in Africa, to offer buyers and sellers of mainly African traditional crops...
Mozambique’s economy declared satisfactory by IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday declared that the performance of the Mozambican government's reform programme in 2007 was "satisfactory", despite missing a...
Price hikes in Egypt
The continued increase in the prices of foodstuffs in Egypt has sparked worries by concerned citizens of the North African nation.
In recent months, the...
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Thrity percent less maize by 2030
As global warming pushes temperatures up and droughts become more intense, the production of maize, southern Africa's staple food, could drop by as much...
Sudan: Do more to contain Rift Valley Fever – WHO
The UN World Health Organization has urged Sudan to step up its efforts to halt the spread of Rift Valley Fever in the east...
Qat cultivation threatening water resources, specialists warn
For Ahmed Rajeh, a 54-year-old farmer from Sanaa Governorate, qat is as important as water. “Qat is the of our economy,” Rajeh says,...