FAO embarks on Sustainable Livestock development project in Africa

FAO

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in partnership with relevant stakeholders is embarking on a project to identify strategies for curtailing any threats to the sustainable long term growth of the livestock sector in Africa.

Pictures speak at National Assembly Public Hearing on Six bill presented for objective criticism according to Speaker National Assembly, Hon. Yakubu Dogara by House Committee Colleges of Agriculture, and Institutions led by Hon. Linus Okorie, today at Abuja.

Standing for National Anthem in redcap and white, Chairman Committee on Agric, Colleges and Institutions Hon. Linus Okorie

Pictures speak at National Assembly Public Hearing on Six bills presented for objective criticism according to Speaker, National Assembly, Hon. Yakubu Dogara held under the auspices of House Committee on Agric  Colleges  and Institutions led by Hon. Linus Okorie, today at Abuja.

Ending Extreme Poverty - Wives of African Leaders Honour Nigerian Foundation

Hope to live

The Coalition of Wives of Presidents and Vice Presidents in Africa for Peace, COWAP, has honoured Nigerian international humanitarian organisation, Jose Foundation, for its efforts and philanthropic activities in championing the cause of women and children towards ending extreme poverty in Africa.

Farmers, CBN disagree on anchor fertilizer

*farmers task NAIC on 80% insurance. 

Participants at the CBN/NIRSAL Anchor Borrowers' Programme Town Hall Meeting

As the preparation for the 2018 rainy season for food production in the North Central of Nigeria is about to commence, the town hall meeting between farmers and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) NIRSAL had a stalemate as the Community Allied Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (COMAFAS)  kicked against the official use of NPK fertilizer

Palm Buyers Urged to Work On Sustainability, Not Ban Vegetable Oil

Oil Palm

Buyers are wrong to remove palm oil from their products and should instead focus on working with sustainability schemes and smallholder farmers, an Indonesia-based conservation organisation said on Tuesday.

GMOs Might Feed the World If Only Investors Weren’t So Scared

A farmer picks genetically engineered papayas in Oahu, Hawaii.

In the basement of Koshland Hall at the University of California at Berkeley is a trove of seeds with the potential to fix some of agriculture’s most vexing problems.

Food Evolution the Trailer

EAC Trailing in Exportation of Bananas

Bananas

Tanzania and Uganda consume 50 per cent of bananas grown in Africa, but realise only nine per cent of the potential yield due to poor productivity due to pests and diseases.

USAID Offers Prize Money to Combat Fall Armyworm

USAID

The U.S. Agency for International Development is offering prize money for ways to combat the fall armyworm, a crop-eating pest that has spread across sub-Saharan Africa.

9million seed gap: Farmers lament, PERL advocates quality.

Pictures speak at the recently held Experience sharing and advocacy strategies review technical session on Agricultural seed, Organized by the Partnership to Engage Reform and Learning (PERL)

In a bid to ensure the use of quality seed to fill up the nine million gaps in the Agricultural sector across the country, the Partnerships to Engage Reform and Learning (PERL) held a two-day workshop on “Sharing the Experience and Advocacy Strategies Review Technical Session on Agricultural Seeds”.