Funding constraints mean that the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has been forced to limit emergency aid to only 6.2 million of the most vulnerable people in need across West Africa, scaling back from an initial target of assisting 11.6 million, the agency announced on Wednesday. The agency’s emergency food and nutrition assistance operation in […]
Tag: Food and Agriculture
A malnutrition crisis is escalating in northwest Nigeria, prompting international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to reinforce its activities while warning that the current humanitarian response is insufficient to avert a potential catastrophe in the coming months. MSF has opened three new outpatient therapeutic feeding centres, in addition to the 10 inpatient […]
THE Minister for Livestock and Fisheries, Abdallah Ulega has warned fishermen using dynamites to stop the illegal fishing method for it constitutes major threat to small-scale fisheries through degradation of reefs and other critical habitats for fish. He said in Dar es Salaam recently that dynamite fishers could be sentenced to five years in prison […]
Nigerians have been asked to brace up for increase in the prices of bread, a major food item on the table of almost all Nigerians. The produce said their cost of production has risen following the withdrawal of fuel subsidy and the liberalization of the foreign exchange (forex) market by the federal government. President of […]
Nairobi — President William Ruto Saturday said Kenya is on course to attain new milk production and coffee yield targets as a result of duty waivers under the Finance Act 2023. Ruto said the government is keen to raise national milk production by enhancing milk yield per cow from the current average of 2 litres […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has called upon the government and people of the Republic of Serbia to support Uganda’s flourishing agricultural sector. President Museveni made the request yesterday while meeting a group of officials from the Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development (PACEID) led by Odrek Rwabwogo at Nakasero State Lodge. He revealed […]
Nimba County — A joint delegation from the Ministry of Agricultural and the World Bank-funded smallholders agricultural transformation agri-business revitalization project (STRA-P) has begun touring various farming groups in Nimba County. The tour headed by STAR-P operations manager, Stephen Marvie, is intended to reach out to various farming groups in all 19 administrative districts in […]
Millions are facing hunger and children’s lives are on the line in north-eastern Nigeria amid a protracted conflict and climate change. UN’s humanitarian response in the region is underfunded, humanitarians told the press in Geneva on Wednesday. The UN’s top humanitarian official in the country Matthias Schmale informed that severe hunger affects 4.3 million people […]
Illovo Malawi Plc Managing Director Lekani Katandula has disclosed that his company is still discussing with government on mapping way forward on issue of sugar prices. Katandula was speaking during a tour of Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture to Illovo depots in Mchinji to appreciate sugar prices in Malawi and Zambia. The tour comes after concerns […]
Hopes Rise for Survivors After Movement Detected at Harmony Gold Mine There may be survivors trapped underground in an unused mining shaft in Welkom, in the Free State, where at least 31 illegal miners – believed to be Basotho nationals – were killed during a methane explosion in May 2023, reports EWN. The mining […]
The Meat Board of Namibia will exercise effective management of the importation of dairy and dairy products, as well as poultry meat and meat products, and overcome the legal challenges experienced over the past years. This announcement was made by agriculture minister Calle Schlettwein when he proposed amendments to the Meat Industry Act of 1981, […]
The Namibia Nature Foundation was represented by two team members of the Freshwater and Inland Fisheries programmatic area at the ECOFISH knowledge fair in mid-June in Kenya. The ECOFISH programme supports development and improving the livelihoods of people by promoting sustainable fisheries. The Nature Foundation received support through the EU-funded ECOFISH small grants for “Strengthening […]
Anemia. Neural tube defects. Weakened immune systems and blindness. Impaired brain function and reduced productivity. Morbidity and mortality. The major underlying condition that causes all of these devastating outcomes is micronutrient deficiencies or ‘’hidden hunger.’’ Thankfully, large-scale food fortification has proven to be an intervention that can contribute substantially to preventing them. Given its potential […]
Arusha — THE United States government is injecting 5 million US dollars (about 12bn/-) in support of Tanzania’s food security. Channeled through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the sum is part of a whopping 14 million US dollars (about 33.5bn/-) geared towards supporting Tanzanian farmers to obtain access to technology, training to […]
“Imported noodles are not expected to be sold in Nigeria because NAFDAC does not register imported noodles as a result of the ban by the Nigerian government…” The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday said that noodles produced in the country did not contain ethylene oxide or its metabolism. […]
Dodoma — THE coffee sector is currently leading other sectors in the Ministry of Agriculture, contributing over 200 million US dollars (almost 480bn/-) in the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB) has confirmed. Board Chairperson, Prof Aurelia Kamuzora spoke of the encouraging development during a brief interview with the ‘Daily News’ […]
FOOD crop export permits will be issued online from July 1st, this year to ease export procedures claimed as cumbersome by exporters, the Minister for Agriculture, Hussein Bashe said in the National Assembly on Wednesday. He said the food crop export permits system would change from manual to online, following concerns over cumbersome procedures involved […]
PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that 14 federal government institutions are exempted from the dissolution order given by Mr Tinubu on Monday. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control (NAFDAC) have been added to list of agencies exempted from President Bola Tinubu’s order dissolving boards […]