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  • Avian flu in West Africa / FAO , prevent spread across region of 330 million

    BENIN, 2015/07/23 Fears are growing that without timely intervention to stem outbreaks of the highly virulent avian flu virus H5N1 across West Africa, further spread across the region and beyond is inevitable, FAO said today. To this end, the agency is calling for $20 million for prevention and response activities. The call follows outbreaks of the virus in poultry farms, markets and family holdings in Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana. The outbreak comes as nations across West Africa are still recovering from, and in some cases still battling, Ebola. Avian flu could trigger a mass die-off of chicken – a nutritious and inexpensive source of food for a lot of people– with detrimental impacts on diets and on the economy of the region, exacerbating an by presently difficult situation.

  • Food insecurity in Ebola affected countries

    GUINEA, 2014/12/20 The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have said the Ebola epidemic in the affected West African nations could push the number of people facing food insecurity to additional than one million by next spring. 'The disease's impact is potentially devastating in the three nations by presently coping with chronic food insecurity,' according to a joint statement issued Thursday by the FAO and WFP. The statement noted that by presently this month, half a million people are estimated to be severely food insecure in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

  • Africa: Can Africa Satisfy Its Hunger?

    BOTSWANA, 2013/04/02 Africa frequently experiences food shortages, although its 900 million farmers could feed the continent, inclunding supplying other parts of the world. But for this to happen they need the support of politicians.

  • Guinea: Nation Grows Nerica Rice to Reduce Dependence On Imports 2012-10-24

    GUINEA, 2012/10/24

  • Nation Grows Nerica Rice 2012-09-15

    GUINEA, 2012/09/15 "Our first rice harvest is in, and we're getting ready to plant again," he says, surveying his farm in southeastern Guinea. "Other farmers who have not from now on tried NERICA are still preparing for their only harvest of the year." Along with 24 younger associates, Koné harvested nearly 700 tonnes of an improved variety of rice from their 140-hectare plot in the Beyla prefecture in the southeastern corner of this West African country at the beginning of August.
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