Uganda: Tears and Cheers Over New GMO Law

GMO

Days after parliament quietly passed the National Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill, widely known as the 'GMO Bill', in early October, Meg Hilbert Jaquay, the Managing Director of Jakana Foods Limited, remains sad. Her company exports 30 metric tonnes of organic dried fruits to U.S., Europe, Asia, and across Africa every year.

Rwanda: Experts Devise Ways to Develop Drought, Disease-Resilient Crops

Disease-Resilient Crops

As climate change and disease continue to affect crops worldwide and threaten food security, experts are meeting in Kigali at a crop development meeting proposing solutions to these threats through resilient varieties.

Angola: Ministry of Fisheries Bets On Sea Hygienic Conditions

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The formation of the mentality of the population on the hygienic conditions in the fishing and commercial enclosures is one of the great bets of the Ministry of Fisheries and the Sea so that the fish is consumed in a healthy way, said on Tuesday in Luanda, minister Victoria de Barros Neto.

The Future of the Future Farmers of America

Future of the Future Farmers of America

With more than 650,000 members, FFA is teaching a new generation dedicated to feeding the world’s growing population.

Nothing that you’d find on any runway in Milan, though, or draped over the shoulders of a peacocking Kardashian. Instead, from the time I was a preteen, the piece of outerwear that has made my Kentucky-raised heart skip a beat is the signature jacket of the Future Farmers of America.

Animal Science Association’s urgent call to save the livestock industry from imminent chaos posed by a member’s private bill being sponsored by Senator Habbu Ibrahim

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TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL LIVESTOCK IDENTIFICATION, TRACEABILITY, REGISTRATION, AND FOR OTHER RELATED PURPOSES.

At last, cassava flour inclusion bill scales through

Cassva Bread

·       NAFDAC, SON ask for standard control on fertilizer

The cassava flour (mandatory inclusion in flour production) bill 2016 has scaled through the senate just as two other bills namely  the bill for an Act to provide for the establishment of the National Livestock identification and Management Bureau and the one for an Act to regulate the manufacture, importation, distribution and quality control of fertilizer were set to be amended for more inclusion by stakeholder before passage  by the Senate Committee on Agriculture chaired by  Sen. Abdullahi  Adamu at the public hearing  held by the committee at the National Assembly last week at Abuja.

Gambia: Farmers Raise Voices of Concern,Agric. Minister Responds

Farmers

Farmers in the length and breadth of the Gambia, have raised their voices on the threats to food security. All the farmers who spoke on the Agriculture Minister's tour have lamented the same situational problem: lack of seeds, fertilizer, farm implements, lack of adequate water or rain for the crops and animal intrusion on farm lands.

South Africa: Philippi's Vegetables Feed the Hungry

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Many people living near the farms of the Philippi Horticultural Area depend on them for cheap or free vegetables.

Improved seeds: DFID galvanizes voices for blockage removal

Nat. Pres, Yam Growers, Processors and Marketers Association, Prof. Simeon Irtwange speaking on partnership with Root and Tuber Research Institute on seedling while Chika of PERL looks on

As the accessibility of farmers in Nigeria to improved seedlings worsen, the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL) and some few select voices in the agricultural sector have interfaced on the need to ensure accessibility of farmers to improved seeds with sustainability through blockages removal in the productivity process.

Mugabe's Food Security Doctorate 'Is a Thoroughly Ill' and 'Not Funny Joke"

President Robert Mugabe

Zimbabwe's opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party has described as "thoroughly ill", the granting of an honorary doctorate in agricultural Sciences to President Robert Mugabe by the Lupane State University (LSU), says a report.