Uganda: Promoting High Value Cassava Products

Value Cassava Products

Cassava is identified as one of the emerging market oriented commodities will improve the livelihood of smallholder farmers in Uganda if it is grown and processed as high quality product to attract industrial market potential.

Academy Declares GMOs Beneficial for Consumption

NAS

The Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) has declared that genetically-modified foods are safe for consumption for now.This was against the warning by the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) to the public to be wary of the products that are on sale in some stores. It said none of the products had been approved for local consumption.

Breaking news: Crisis deepens, office of a director, Animal Department FMARD sealed off, as another receive threat letter.

FMARD

Breaking news: Crisis deepens, office of a director,  Animal Department FMARD sealed off, as another receive threat letter.
The office of the Director, Animal and Husbandry Department, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) has been sealed off, while information reaching us says another Deputy Director in person of Mr. Taiwo has received a threat letter. Sometime we wrote on Rescuing animal productivity from FMARD internal crisis.

Kenya: Only One Person Dead From Drought, Eric Kiraithe Says

Drought

The government on Thursday said it has recorded only one death due to drought despite revelations of at least seven people dying from the prolonged dry spell.

Uganda: Suggestions On Current Food Challenges

Coffee

The farmers who attended the second National Coffee Festival at Mandela National Stadium, Nambole, on November 4 were introduced to the Coffee Drought Indexed Insurance, which will be rolled out to interested farmers across the country in the coming months. One of the key speakers at the function, Joost Derwoerd, the director of Earth Environment Monitoring/Resilient Africa Network, told them: "Farming is the biggest business in the world. But it is done under an open roof which makes it vulnerable to the ravages of nature."

European potato scientists meet in Scotland to discuss crop challenges

potato

“Pests and pathogens remain a major constraint to food security in a world where potato is rising in importance as a major food crop.

Entrepreneur Turns Plastic Waste Into a Way to Save Trees

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Thirteen years ago, Aghan Oscar, bothered by the ever-increasing quantity of plastic waste in this low-income suburb of Nairobi, decided to find a way to recycle it.

Kenya: Samburu County Government Rejects 8,000 Bags of Maize

A woman fetches water from a dug sandy hole in Ntepes in Opiroi, Samburu.

The Samburu County Government has rejected 8,000 bags of maize it bought from the National Cereals and Produce Board.

Nigeria to Stop Russian Wheat Imports

Wheat

The government has decided to stop wheat imports to help save its foreign currency reserves.

Kenya's Food Crisis to Worsen, Agency Warns

Kenya's Food Crisis to Worsen

  *Food Crisis to Worsen, Agency Warns 
According to an agency monitoring drought, food shortage has been increased by conflict in some counties, the most serious case being along the border of Isiolo and Garissa, where pastoralists' clashing is common.