The Nigerian government has planned to import food in large quantities to help overcome the poor yields experienced by farming sin the country following recent flooding
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Food and agri industry turning waste into revenue
A Rabobank report, Don’t Waste a Drop: Maximising the Value of F&A Waste Streams, has found there is a paradigm shift in the way food and agricultural waste is transitioning from organic waste to a revenue source
Zambian government to support ailing fertiliser producers
Zambian minister of agriculture, Emmanuel Chenda, has called for the countrys government to make fertiliser more easily accessible to farmers in order to help them overcome a reliance on imports
Nigeria looks to agriculture for growth
At the New World Nigeria investment conference, Nigerian minister of agriculture and rural development, Akinwumi Adesina, and the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi, made clear their resolve to rebuild a vibrant agricultural sector
Framing Finnish support for rural civil society in Kenya
Maarit Hirvonen, chief technical adviser to the Programme for Agriculture and Livelihoods in Western Communities (PALWECO), spoke of the ways in which PALWECO has worked, and continues to work, towards delivering Finnish support for civil society in Kenya