USAID Release: Nigeria to benefit in US food security plan.

Reduce Hunger, Malnutrition & Poverty

The United States (US) has targeted twelve countries of the world including Nigeria to reduce poverty, hunger and malnutrition using the Global Food Security Act as strategies to achieve this as plans are already under way. This was contained in a statement signed by Jana.T Sweeny, Development Outreach and Communication specialist.

KDC Ag’s Technology is Taking Food Waste From Fork to Farm

Taking Food Waste From Fork to Farm

Kamine Development Corporation’s agriculture division (KDC Ag) has developed a technology with California Safe Soil that converts more than 30 tons of fresh food waste into fertilizer and animal feed in just three hours.

Tanzania: Livestock Activists Condemn Govt for Burning Chicks

Livestock

Veterinarians have condemned government's decision to burn 6,400 chicks which were illegally imported from Kenya.

Breaking news: Tension at Fed. College of Agric after FMARD visits

Victim

·       Police attacks, two in hospital

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development (FMARD) fact finding officials sent to the College of Agriculture located at the Moorplantation, Ibadan may have resulted to heating up the peaceful atmosphere as students are presently protesting with two or more casualties recorded as a result of sporadic shooting by the police.

Campbell: “Goal of bringing more plant-based foods to consumers”

Goal of bringing more plant-based foods to consumers”

The Campbell Soup Company announces it is joining the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA), the only trade group in the United States that represents the plant-based food sector. Campbell is the first major food company to join PBFA.

Senate agric public hearing, farmers say bills long over due

The Senate committee public hearing

The Senate committee public hearing initially slated for 7^th November for three different agricultural bills has been postponed till tomorrow Tuesday as stakeholders especially the farmers have described the exercise an overdue veritable tools to combating many challenges confronting food security and wealth creation in the country.

Botswana: Utilise Land Effectively - Autlwetse

Residents of Pandamatenga

Residents of Pandamatenga have been advised to fully utilise their ploughing fields to sustain households and improve food security in the country.

Texas Ranches Manage Cattle to Improve Habitat and Watershed Health

Texas Ranches Manage Cattle

The following is an edited excerpt from Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity by Sandra Postel, published by Island Press.

Zimbabwe: Govt Vows to Tackle Armyworm

 Armyworm

Government has secured knapsack sprayers that will be distributed to smallholder farmers in an attempt to fight the risk which might be caused by the fall armyworm this season.

Zambian Farmers Outline “Potential agriculture holds to reduce poverty and hunger”

farm

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) recently developed a field report with farmers in Zambia, outlining the importance of smallholder agriculture in combating poverty and hunger. The farmers carved pie charts, figures, and numbers relevant to African agriculture into a field to make their case for more investment in small farms.