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  • Agricultural Research Center Playing Vital Role 2012-09-15

    ERITREA, 2012/09/15  Irrigation and dairy farmers in Mendefera sub-zone lauded Halhale Agricultural Research Center for the technical advice it has ensured to that end. Upon organizing an excursion to the research center, they indicated that it is witnessing an impressive evolution as regards compiling data for various select cereals and fruits, and that such exposure has visibly fostered new insights in their respective domains of farming.

  • FAO Support Programme Approach Launched 2012-09-15

    CAMEROON, 2012/09/15

  • Malian Farmers Want Their Land Back 2012-09-13

    MALI, 2012/09/13

  • Getting a Grip On Food Security in DR Congo 2012-08-30

    CONGO KINSHASA, 2012/08/30 The Association for Integrated Rural Development is one of a number of rural organisations on the periphery of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which are strengthening the city's food security while demonstrating how to maximise sustainable use of agricultural land. Joseph Ngandungala, an agricultural engineer and one of the association's twenty-odd members, guided IPS through a tour of ADRIM's 25 hectare plot in Mbenkana,

  • Burkina Faso farmers are reaping the benefits 2012-08-29

    BURKINA FASO, 2012/08/29

  • Congo-Kinshasa: More Help Needed to Control Livestock Disease Outbreak 2012-08-23

    CONGO KINSHASA, 2012/08/23 The Ministry of Agriculture in the Democratic Republic of Congo has called for extra support to control an epidemic of peste des petits ruminants (PPR), a contagious viral disease that has already killed tens of thousands of goats and sheep.

  • Congo-Kinshasa: Food Security and the Failure of Mechanisation in DRC 2012-08-23

    CONGO KINSHASA, 2012/08/23 Mechanisation was expected to transform agriculture in the Democratic Republic of Congo's central province of East Kasaï. But a project to offer tractors for ploughing land has fallen flat. Meanwhile, a lot of households don't have enough to eat because agricultural production in this mineral-rich province is too low.

  • Guinea-Bissau Fish Agreements 2011-05-26

    GUINEA-BISSAU, 2011/05/26 Officials in Guinea-Bissau say the European Union is paying too little for the right to fish in their seas, and must pay more if they want to continue doing so. This wetland country off Africa's Atlantic coast is no rich nation. In fact, the United Nations ranks it the world's sixth poorest.

  • Grants 590 million yen to Mauritania to boost its food security

    JAPAN, 2010/08/10 Nouakchott (Mauritania) Japan has granted 590 million yen to Mauritania to buy rice in order to boost food security in the country, APA learns in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott. The agreement was signed Tuesday in Nouakchott between the Minister of Economic Affairs and Development of Mauritania, Sidi Ould Tah, and the ambassador of Japan in the country, Hirochi Azima.
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