African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina has said that Africa must prepare for the inevitability of a global food crisis
Agriculture
US and Mozambique governments come together to preserve forests and water
On Earth Day 2022, the US Government reaffirmed its support for conservation law enforcement and sustainable forest management in the Niassa Special Reserve (NSR), Mozambique’s largest protected area
TROPICSAFE achieves significant results in managing lethal diseases in palms, grapevine and citrus
The TROPICSAFE project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and coordinated by Professor Assunta Bertaccini, University of Bologna, Italy, studied three economically important insect-borne prokaryote-associated diseases of perennial crops grown in tropical and subtropical areas
FAO strengthens food safety inspections in Zimbabwe
To tackle food-borne illnesses, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has been training environmental health personnel from across the country on Food Safety Risk Analysis, focusing on risk assessment, risk management and risk communication
Drought in the Horn of Africa driving up acute hunger in Somalia
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) warned that the dire new hunger data out of Somalia sheds additional light on the extended drought’s crippling impacts