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Showing posts with label Global news. Show all posts
Wednesday, 25 September 2024

USDA invests $400M to pay farmers for saving water in drought-stricken West

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 Lawmakers have urged the department for “serious changes” to allow more people to benefit from federal conservation programs.

Minister Banda calls for climate action

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 Speaking at the recent annual Kulumba Traditional Ceremony of the Chewa people of Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, held in Zambia, Malawian M...
Wednesday, 31 July 2024

Global leaders brainstorming in Rwanda on African food security

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World leaders and partners in agricultural productivity have yesterday started a conference to address salient challenges confronting food s...
Monday, 6 February 2023

Regenerative Agriculture Needs A Standardized Definition, Says New Report

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A new report says that an inconsistent understanding of what regenerative agriculture entails and what it can achieve means an outcome-based...

Feeding a growing global population - new ways tech is changing the agricultural landscape

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There is no doubt that the human population is growing at a huge rate. According to the United Nations, the global human population reached ...

Intensive Agriculture Blamed for Bird Population Decline in Spain

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The latest Atlas of Breeding Birds in Spain shows a population decline of about 27 percent in birds linked to agricultural environments.
Thursday, 16 December 2021

Boost incentives to grow agro-industrial parks – report

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 *Regional agriculture parks could boost food production and distribution *But, access to land a major hurdle *Analysis says relationshi...
Wednesday, 15 December 2021

AfDB's TAAT Programme Receives Gold Stevie® Award in 2021 International Business Awards

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  The African Development Bank received a first-place “Gold Stevie” at the 18th Annual International Business Awards virtual event, in r...
Sunday, 15 August 2021

Nigeria moves forward with nitrogen-efficient GMO rice

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 Still basking in the euphoria of commercializing sub-Saharan Africa’s first genetically modified (GM) food crop — insect-resistant cowpea —...
Saturday, 14 August 2021

Kenya approves disease-resistant GMO cassava

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In yet another big win for its smallholder farmers, Kenya has become the first country globally to approve national performance trials of ge...
Wednesday, 11 August 2021

Agri. Minister, Chinese Charge d’Affaires discuss assistance for flood-affected farmers

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Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, in discussion with the Chinese Embassy’s Charge d’Affaires, Chen Xilai (left) The Chinese Govern...
Tuesday, 10 August 2021

More room for value-added production in ‘agric sector

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–as GMC commissions new ‘one-stop shop’, ATVs and refrigerated trucks Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha making brief remarks at the co...