Tarak Lechkab, Area sales manager Africa at Desmet, a leading global provider of custom-engineered plants and equipment for the food, feed and biofuels industries, speaks to African Farming on the reliable and innovation technologies the company is delivering to the agricultural sector
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AFFM receives US$10.15mn funding from NORAD to improve accessibility of fertilisers in Africa
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) has granted a US$10.15mn funding to the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM), enabling it to provide credit guarantees for up to 36 months for the large-scale supply of fertiliser in Uganda, Kenya and Mozambique
WFP receives US$10.7mn grant to strengthen school meals for vulnerable children
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a US$10.7mn grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to help vulnerable children get better access to nutritious food through school feeding programmes in Benin, Ghana, Honduras, and India
UN agencies call for urgent action as millions of children struggle with acute malnutrition
United Nations (UN) agencies are calling for urgent action to protect the most vulnerable children in the 15 countries hardest hit by an unprecedented food and nutrition crisis, and scaling up these actions as a coordinated package will be critical for preventing and treating acute malnutrition in children, and averting loss of life
NARC holds activity assessment meeting to discuss agricultural development
The National Agricultural Research Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture (NARC) held its annual activity assessment meeting on 10 January