Agriculture
FAO’s global action to control fall armyworm outbreaks
FAO has advanced global action to control the spread and damage of fall armyworm, a voracious invasive species that is ravaging crops in Africa, Asia and the Near East
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Ethiopia scaling up locust control operation as planting season starts
As the February-May Belg season starts, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Agriculture is scaling up aerial and ground operations in Oromia and Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' (SNNP) regions – Belg crop-producing areas to control desert locusts
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AfDB and Nigeria to implement special agro-industrial processing zones
The African Development Bank (AfDB), in collaboration with the government of Nigeria, has held a meeting with stakeholders to discuss details around special agro-industrial processing zones in Nigeria
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Switzerland donates US$1.02mn to fight desert locust outbreak in East Africa
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) is donating US$1.02mn to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to tackle massive desert locust infestation in East Africa
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Egyptian and Latvian foreign ministers discuss bilateral cooperation
Edgars Rinkēvičs, minister of foreign affairs of Latvia, and Sameh Shoukry, foreign minister of Egypt, met on 16 February 2020 to discuss bilateral cooperation opportunities in a number of areas including agriculture and the IT sector
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