Farmers react to late budget signed by President Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari

Farmers have described the 2018 national budget just signed by President Muhammadu Buhari as being late to the need of farming activities for the year saying that agricultural activities are time bound.

Land borders closure, see what RIFAN says will happen if President Buhari……..

From RT-LT – Nat. President RIFAN Mallam Aminu Goronyo, Nat. Organizing Secr. Alh. Wodi Muhamadu, MD New Nigeria Comm. Marketing Company, Abubakar Musa, Chief Livinus Ngawangwa (JP) and others.

The National President, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) Mallam Aminu Goronyo has promised that his members would not hesitate to vote out President Buhari if he decided not to effect the decision on banning imported rice through the land borders saying Nigeria has got no gain expending   five million dollar on rice import daily.

EU to ban outdoor use of bee-harming neonic pesticides

bee

The European Union will ban the outdoor use of widely used insecticides due to the danger they pose to bees.

Where GMOs Are Grown

Farmer

Think only U.S. farmers grow GMO crops?  You might be surprised to know that while each country has its own regulatory process for both the cultivation and sale of GM products, as of 2016, GMOs are grown, imported and/or used in more than 75 countries across the globe.

Argentine small-scale farmers give away vegetables in land protest

Argentine small-scale farmers give away vegetables in land protest

Farmers in Argentina have distributed tonnes of produce for free as part of a protest to demand access to land.

AFSA warns against corporate takeover of African seed systems

Seed

African farmers’ seeds are increasingly under threat from policies designed to privilege corporate seed systems, says a new report launched on World Intellectual Property Day on April 26th.

Food Security in Africa: Is Genetically Modified Technology a Pathway?-A paper presented by NAERLS ED, Prof.M.K Othiman at Seed-Connect event.

GMO FOODs

 Recently, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) rated eighty-six countries as low-income and food-deficient nations, thus, considered to be food insecure (http://www.fao.org/docrep/w9290e/w9290e01.htm).

U.S. consumers waste nearly a pound of food daily, study finds

Food Waste

U.S. consumers waste almost a pound of food per person each day, with 30 million acres of cropland used to produce this food every year – an area equivalent to 7.7% of all harvested cropland in the US or half the size of the UK.

Agroecology is a better alternative in Sub-Saharan Africa, researcher says

Agroecological farm

Agroecology is a better alternative than large-scale agriculture, both for the climate and for small-scale farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Humans have destroyed 83% of wild mammals, biomass census shows

Today, 60% of all mammals on Earth are livestock

The world’s 7.6 billion people only make up 0.01% of the Earth’s biomass. Yet since the rise of civilization, humanity has caused the loss of more than 80% of all wild mammals and half of plants, while livestock has increased dramatically, new research shows.