Four UK agri-tech centres – CHAP, CIEL, Agri-EPI and Agrimetrics – have formed a sustainable farming partnership with world leading agricultural research and training organisation, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in the Netherlands
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Africa must prepare for a global food crisis, says AfDB president
African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina has said that Africa must prepare for the inevitability of a global food crisis
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