Geneva — The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, this week reported that global crises have combined to raise levels of acute malnutrition in dozens of refugee sites surveyed, most of them in Africa. UNHCR’s 2021 Annual Public Health Global Review was released Friday. UNHCR officials say they are concerned by their findings, which show a significant […]
Tag: Food and Agriculture
Do you know that instead of flushing urine down our toilets to wastewater treatment facilities, it could be recycled and used as fertiliser? Yes, pee or even wee as some people say, may offer a solution as a soil amendment. According Business Insider South Africa, researchers say human urine can be used as an alternative to […]
A RUSSIAN company Uralchem has announced that it is ready to supply 25,000 tons of fertilizer to Africa free of charge as part of its contribution to global food security and the fight against hunger. Uralchem is one of the top five major Russian chemical companies producing nitrogen, potash and complex fertilizers and exporting them […]
Cape Town — Step- Aside Rule a Sticking Point for ANC The ruling party’s elective conference will be held in December 2022 but it seems too long away for some ANC delegates who want the step-aside rule put on ice immediately, and not to wait till then for the rule to be debated Eye […]
Form follows function. This is the principle that the design or shape of something – whether made by humans or in nature – should serve a purpose. Honey bees’ function is to pollinate plants, make honey, survive and reproduce. Along with other pollinators – birds, moths, butterflies, bats and many more – they are the […]
Abuja, Nigeria — Today in north-east Nigeria, millions of people are facing the painful consequences of a deteriorating food security and nutrition crisis. Food insecurity means not knowing when or where your next meal will come from. It means, in essence, not being able to meet the basic needs for yourself or your family. As […]
Smallholder horticulture farmers in Honde Valley, the Manicaland Province, have bemoaned high costs of inputs, which they say are preventing them from realising their full potential. Honde Valley is a vast communal land, about 95km north of Mutare where production of coffee, bananas, sugar beans, avocados, yams and sugar cane is the major source of […]
At least 17 million Nigerian children are undernourished; stunted and/or wasted, giving Nigeria the highest burden of malnutrition in Africa and the second highest in the world. Three-year-old Salamatu’s face was gaunt, her eyes sunken and her tiny hands and legs tightly covered by flesh. Wrapped in her mother’s arm in a health facility in […]
United Nations has decried that worsening food insecurity may push 1.74 million children under the age of five in the North-eastern Nigeria into malnutrition. A statement issued yesterday by the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, Mr. Matthias Schmale, titled: ‘Surviving the Food Crisis in North-east Nigeria’, said today in North-east Nigeria, millions […]
Yaounde — French President Emmanuel Macron is on a first trip to Cameroon and will meet Tuesday with long-ruling President Paul Biya to discuss security, economic, and food challenges. Like much of Africa, Cameroon is struggling with rising prices for fuel and grain caused in part by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron […]
The prolonged dry spells in Kayunga have raised fears of possible hunger in the district. Many farmers say they have not been able to harvest after the dry spell frustrated their crops. Three sub counties of Galiraaya, Bbaale, and Kayonza in Kayunga district are now struggling with a prolonged drought which has crippled normal agricultural […]
MOGADISHU – The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $476 million in critical humanitarian and development assistance to the people of Somalia as a historically unprecedented drought pushes more than 7 million people to the edge of starvation. With this announcement, the United States has provided nearly […]
If Russia keeps to the deal it has signed with Ukraine allowing for the resumption of grain exports, much needed relief will be provided to importing countries, including many in Africa. The relief would be significant as Ukraine has roughly 22 million tonnes of grain (wheat, maize, sunflower seed and other grains) in silos. It […]
In reaction to Ukraine and Russia’s recently signed grain deal, Max Lawson, Oxfam International’s Inequality Policy & Advocacy Lead said: “This is extremely important news that puts people before politics. The deal will help calm spiralling food prices which have fuelled poverty and hunger around the world. “It will help countries already mired in hunger […]
An “unprecedented agreement” on the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea is “a beacon of hope” in a world that desperately needs it, UN Secretary-António Guterres said on Friday at the signing ceremony in Istanbul, Türkiye. The UN plan, which also paves the way for Russian grain and fertilizer to reach global […]
The fate of about 20 households hangs in the air as the Agricultural Research Council moves ahead with plans to lease the farm Twenty families living on a state farm near Citrusdal in the Western Cape face an uncertain future. The farm, owned by the Agricultural Research Council, has been dormant for many years. Earlier […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has injected a total US$25, 65 million grant drawn from the Transition Support Facility to enhance domestic domestic food production as well as mitigating against a possible food crisis. The funds were drawn from the African Development Fund, a concessional arm of the AfDB Group which granted the country an […]
Facility targets 20 million African smallholder farmers to end reliance on food imported from Russia and Ukraine The facility targets 20 million African smallholder farmers to end reliance on food imported from Russia and Ukraine Liberia and 23 other African countries are set to benefit from a US$ 1 billion emergency food production cash injection […]