‘African countries can benefit from Japan’s healthy foods and diets culture’
African countries have the opportunity to tap into Japans knowledge of smart technologies, agricultural machinery and marketing, according to FAO director-general Qu Dongyu
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Bayer launches US$22.07mn Social Innovation fund for African farmers
The Bayer Foundation has launched US$22.07mn Social Innovation ecosystem fund by awarding US$3.31mn to four pioneering social innovators such as myAgro, MercyCorps, Path and Living Goods
Somalia: Worst harvest since 2011, two million expected to go hungry
Somalia’s 2019 cereal harvest is the poorest the country has seen since 2011, when famine strained already scarce resources, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced, blaming unreliable weather patterns and climatic shocks
GODAN strengthens multilateral co-operation in Eastern and Southern Africa
Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) has announced an MoU with the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) to extend capacity development efforts within countries located across Eastern and Southern Africa
Food gets to play a role in Amazon activism, says GODAN executive director
Andre Laperrière, executive director of Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), has highlighted the issues that why the Amazon fires are a global responsibility and how the food gets to play a big role
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