How to Produce More Food With Less Damage to Soil, Water, Forests

Healthy soils are critical for global food production and provide a range of environmental services.

Massive agriculture intensification is contributing to increased deforestation, water scarcity, soil depletion and the level of greenhouse gas emission, the United Nations warns.

Plans Complete for First Agricultural Park in Tanzania

Tanzania

PLANS are underway to set up the country's first Agricultural Park at Kimamba in Kilosa District that will provide farmers with land and irrigation infrastructure in the area to improve productivity for food security and economic growth.

Genetically modified food safe?

Genetically modified food

FARMERS have been modifying crops for millennia. They introduce new and desirable qualities to improve the food's taste, colour or smell; and eliminate unfavorable traits. All this has been done through conventional breeding – using selective breeding or artificial cross breeding of plants within a species.

Livestock Feeds Invests in Supply Chain to Enhance Competitiveness

Livestock Feeds

Livestock Feeds Plc, a subsidiary of UAC of Nigeria Plc, has announced that it is currently investing in its supply chain operation to drive further growth, and enable it deliver better value to all stakeholders.

How to get rid of armyworms in your farms

Armyworm

If you don’t suffer armyworm outbreaks, be thankful to its natural predators, like birds, insects, and other larvae predators that act as watch-guards in your farms.

Conserving pollinators for improved food production

pollinators

Pollination is an essential process in both human-managed and natural terrestrial ecosystems, and it is critical for food production and human livelihoods, directly linking wild ecosystems with agricultural production systems.

Reduction in food prices fall, a mirage, says Madlion

Mr. Shedrack Madlion

A Kaduna based practicing farmer, Mr. Shedrack Madlion has described the Federal Government’s pronouncement on bringing down the prices of food stuff in two weeks as another statement of hope that was far from reality. He said this in an exclusive telephone chat with Food Farm News.

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Keeping animals healthy can help keep people healthy too, and development on track

For centuries, rinderpest, a highly contagious and fatal cattle plague, spread across the world bringing social and economic devastation.

G7: In a World of Plenty, Why do we Have Famine?

This marks Kenya's first appearance at the summit of global leaders, along with Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tunisia.

DR Congo Conflict has Displaced a Record Number - NGO

Des manifestants sur l’échangeur routier de Limete, à Kinshasa, la capitale de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC)

For a country that has witnessed millions of deaths, brutal colonial rule, and devastating dictatorship, the past year in the Democratic Republic of Congo still stands out as a bleak one.