Harvestplus to hold nutritious food fair — Official

Harvestplus

In a bid to fight hidden hunger, increase demand and consumption of nutritious food, Harvestplus, an international organization, plans to hold nutritious food fair in Calabar.

Schooling Food Waste: How Schools Can Teach Kids to Value Food

Schools can teach kids to waste less food through a few simple changes.

There’s much ado about food waste these days. The Obama Administration set an aggressive food waste reduction goal by 2030, five states and a few cities have banned it from landfills, Congress held hearings on the matter, the Ad Council created a suite of “Save the Food” public service ads, and the National Science Foundation just donated US$1 million to tackle the issue.

Agric is way out of Nigeria’s economic challenges – Ganduje

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state has described agriculture as a formidable way to make the nations’ economy bigger and resilient.

FAO Highlights Increased Drought in Caribbean

The agriculture sector in the Caribbean region is vulnerable because extreme weather events are becoming stronger and more frequent due to climate change.

Recently, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a report on the impact of climate change on agriculture in the Caribbean region. The report found that the region is expected to see an increase in the intensity and frequency of droughts due to climate change.

Environmental Working Group Highlights Agroecology as Solution to World Hunger

A new report from the Environmental Working Group suggests that supporting smallholder farmers demonstrates promising potential in the fight to end world hunger.

Feeding the World: Think U.S. Agriculture Will End World Hunger? Think Again is a new report from Craig Cox and Anne Weir at the Environmental Working Group (EWG) that takes a close look at the United States’ agricultural export economy and its relationship to hunger and undernourishment across the globe. Its findings suggest that the root cause of hunger in the most undernourished countries is not a lack of imports from American farmers, but widespread poverty.

New methods for detecting crop disease

Professor Linton Winder

 
*Protecting our crops

Here’s a scary thought: Each year around 30% of the world’s crops are lost to pests and diseases. But scientists from Unitec, Massey and Lincoln are investigating ways of detecting the presence of destructive fungal diseases in crops much earlier than ever before, giving farmers a powerful new tool in the fight against a pervasive enemy.

Researchers flag threats to Nigeria’s cassava industry

L-R: Jacob Mignouna, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; EnockChikava, Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Denis Kyetere, Executive Director, African Agricultural Technology Foundation; Dr Claude Fauquet, Director, Global Cassava Partnership for the 21^st Century; and Dr Kenton Dashiell, Deputy Director General, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, during the workshop on “Integrated System for an Effective Cassava Production in Africa,” in IITA- Ibadan, 27-28 October 2016.

*canvass integrated approach to cassava production

Nigeria’s rising population, particularly in the cities, coupled with low productivity (yield per hectare) of cassava roots is threatening the country’s cassava industry andcould impede the gains made in the sector, putting the country at risk of becoming a net importer of staple crops.

1500 workers to lose jobs as Erisco foods relocate to China

Chief Eric Umeofia 

Over 1500 employees of Erisco Foods limited are about losing their jobs as the company has begun the process of winding up its tomatoes paste factory in the country sequel to relocating to China.

Toxic Algae Blooms Linked to Over-Fertilization and Climate Change

Recent toxic algae blooms in Florida have covered over one third of the surface area of Lake Okeechobee.

 

Recent blooms of toxic algae in southern Florida, which have provoked Governor Rick Scott to announce a state of emergency, may be tied to fertilizer chemicals from agricultural and residential origins.

Celebrating International Day of Rural Women 2016

farmer

October 15 is recognized by the United Nations as the International Day of Rural Women.
“Rural women are the backbone of sustainable livelihoods and provide food security for their families and communities,” according to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.