World Food Programme (WFP) has started delivering emergency relief food assistance to communities in regions bordering on war-torn Tigray in northern Ethiopia
Agriculture
Kenya's food price inflation vaults higher in August
According to the latest report from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), consumer price index (CPI) inflation rose by 6.6% y-o-y in August, basically unchanged from the revised figure for July (6.4% y-o-y previously)
NAFSPA helps farmers in Kenya to export avocado to Europe
Paul Mitei, a farmer from Kiptoben Village, Nakuru County, Kenya started growing avocados because other farmers in his community were also growing them
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency supports Guinean farmers
In cooperation with TİKA and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of the Republic of Guinea, 75 tonnes of corn was harvested on a total of 15 hectares of land in Coyah, Dubreka and Kindia
FAO deploys application to combat locust outbreak in Namibia
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed the eLocust3m application to improve early warning through rapid detection, surveillance and monitoring of locust outbreaks