East Africa: U.S Mission Gives Uganda U.S. $40 Million for Refugees

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi was in Uganda recently and met South Sudanese refugees at Pagirinya refugee settlement in Adjumani, Uganda. The US has boosted efforts to feed the refugees.

The US Mission in Kampala has tripled US food aid contributions to Uganda in 2016 by announcing a new $40 million emergency humanitarian package.

Tanzania: PM Summons Cashew Board Over Unpaid Dues

Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa

Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa has demanded to be told why cashew nut farmers had still not been paid for crop that had been delivered to buyers.

Africa: A Pivotal Moment for Biofortification

Joane Nkuliye, a rural entrepreneur from Rwanda’s Eastern Province, grows biofortified beans on a commercial scale.

 This year's World Food Prize pays tribute to biofortification, an intervention that strengthens efforts to address one of the world's most insidious and pervasive public health challenges--hidden hunger.

Algeria: Bluefin Tuna Fishing - Algeria's Quota Rises By 500 Tonnes

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Algeria's bluefin tuna quota for 2017 has been brought up to 1,046 tonnes, from 546 tonnes before, by the Internation Commission on Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), a source from the ministry of Agriculture told APS.

An Interview with Dr. Adam Drewnowski, Obesity and Health Disparities Researcher

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Dr. Adam Drewnowski, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington and the Director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the School of Public Health, has dedicated his career to research on obesity and social disparities in diet and health. we recently spoke with him about his research into food price as a link between climate change and obesity.

Ethiopia: U.S. Program Helps Ethiopian Farmers

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Feed the Future Ethiopia Commercial Farm Services Project is set to provide funding for 20 entrepreneurs and farmers' cooperative unions to open new farm service centers in Ethiopia's four major regions.

Africa's Agricultural Production Systems Need a Radical Change - ECA's Karingi

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"Regardless of the approach or transformative pathway chosen to change food systems and trade regimes, African countries need to undertake radical change in agricultural production systems, adopt agribusiness and promote regional agricultural value chains as a vein for regional integration."

The Importance of Agroecology in Sustainable Agriculture, an Interview with Dr. Gliessman

 Dr. Gliessman

Dr. Steve Gliessman is a Professor Emeritus of Agroecology in the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

What Africa Can Learn From China's Green Revolution in Its Agro-Allied Industrialization Quest

Xiaobo Zhang, professor at the China Center for Economic Research at Pekin University

Is there a future for smallholder farmers in Africa?

Participants at the 2016 African Economic Conference think there is future for smallholder farmers on the continent. They think African countries can use build upon the Green Revolution in Asia and use the lessons learnt raise their productivity.

Zimbabwe: Oil Making Industry Capacity Drops to 35 Percent

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Capacity utilization in the cooking oil manufacturing industry has plunged to below 35 percent largely due to failure to secure adequate foreign currency to import raw materials.The manufacturers have since approached the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to lobby for an increase in foreign currency allocation to prevent further drop in capacity utilization in the oil processing industry.