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Female Farmers Rebuilding Agriculture in the Central African Republic

Female Farmers Rebuilding Agriculture in the Central African Republic

Farmers in the Central African Republic are struggling to bounce back from years of intermittent violence, where smallholder female farmers were unable to tend their fields during the conflict. With support from local non-governmental organisations working from the grassroots level, women farmers are creating new opportunities to get back on their feet. “This war affected […]

Agriculture Minister Stresses Strong Relations With Tanzania

Agriculture Minister Stresses Strong Relations With Tanzania

Agriculture Minister Essam Fayed stressed the strong relations between Egypt and Tanzania in the various fields especially the agriculture domain. The minister made these remarks during leading the Egyptian delegation to the inauguration ceremony of Tanzanian President John Magufuli in the capital Dar es Salaam. The Egyptian minister conveyed the greetings and wishes of President […]

Ease Power Cuts, Made Tells Zesa – Zimbabwe Agriculture Minister

Ease Power Cuts, Made Tells Zesa – Zimbabwe Agriculture Minister

Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made, has appealed to zesa Holdings for lenience on electricity power cuts that are affecting farmers in most parts of the country. He said his ministry was engaging the Ministry of Energy and Power Development to see how the situation could be improved to save crops under […]

Ethiopia, Israel to Engage in Agriculture Sector

Ethiopia, Israel to Engage in Agriculture Sector

This annual trade event has positive effect on extending mutual cooperation between the two, and in creating opportunity to bring Israeli technologies and best practices to the Ethiopian agriculture sector. An Israeli agro-business delegation consisting of 15 agri companies have arrived in Addis in a bid to establish network and partnership with their counterparts. Opening […]

Lebanese govt has approved a subsidy to help export companies after the closure of the Jordan-Syria border

Lebanese govt has approved a subsidy to help export companies after the closure of the Jordan-Syria border

During a heated meeting last month, the Lebanese government agreed to subsidise the shipping of agricultural goods by sea, three months after the closure of the Syrian-Jordanian border. Before the war in Syria, exported goods from Lebanon would travel through Syria towards Iraq and Turkey. But passage to both countries has been closed since the […]

Tanzania’s Agriculture Sector Should Tackle Food Insecurity

Tanzania’s Agriculture Sector Should Tackle Food Insecurity

The Kagera Regional Commissioner, Mr John Mongela has advised farmers in the region to commercialize rice saying it has the potential to play an important role in terms of employment, income and food security for many small scale farmers in rural Tanzania if the productivity is enhanced. In addition, he said that not only can […]

25,000 farmers seek permission to hang themselves on India’s Independence Day

25,000 farmers seek permission to hang themselves on India’s Independence Day

On the event of India’s 69th Independence Day, a group of 25,000 farmers from India seek permission to hang themselves for lack of compensation for losing their land to a construction project, according to IBTIMES. The farmers from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, who had their land taken away by the Indian government without consent for […]

Climate Change and Women Farmers in Botswana

Climate Change and Women Farmers in Botswana

These are tough times for agriculture in southeastern Botswana, the most densely inhabited section of this semi-arid, southern African country. Anaemic rainfall in six of the past 10 years has meant poor harvests for the mostly female farmers in the region. While rain-fed agriculture may be less and less viable, government programmes for small and […]

European Court of Justice to Assess EU-Morocco Agri-Deal

European Court of Justice to Assess EU-Morocco Agri-Deal

The European Court of Justice will assess the EU-Morocco agricultural agreement over Western Sahara, next Tuesday 16 June 2015, at 9:30 am. The so-called EU-Morocco agricultural agreement, concluded on 8 March 2012, fails to exclude Western Sahara from its territorial scope. As a result, agricultural produce from Western Sahara, such as tomatoes and melons, ends […]

Genetically Modified Cotton a False Promise for Africa

Genetically Modified Cotton a False Promise for Africa

Genetically modified (GM) cotton has been produced globally for almost two decades, yet to date only three African countries have grown GM cotton on a commercial basis – South Africa, Burkina Faso and Sudan. African governments have been sceptical of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for decades and have played a key role historically in ensuring […]

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