The Food and Agriculture Organization’s director-general QU Dongyu has called for sustained and strategic investments to accelerate an agri-food system transformation in Africa in the face of an impending food crisis driven by COVID-19
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Malawi’s cereal production in 2020 estimated at bumper level
Malawi’s cereal production in 2020 is helping to bolster households’ food supplies and keeping national import requirements at below‑average level in 2020/21, according to FAO’s Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) Country Brief - Malawi
Manus Bio partners with STK Bio-Ag Technologies
Manus Bio Inc and STK Bio-Ag Technologies (STK) have partnered to develop and commercialise plant-based active ingredients as highly-efficacious biopesticide products
Central Bank of Nigeria unveils interest-free loans scheme to boost agricultural products
The Central Bank of Nigeria has unveiled an interest-free loan scheme to increase agricultural products and resuscitate moribund textile firms
Agritask and Hollard Mozambique to expand agri insurance platform in southern Africa
Agritask, one of the leading global developers of a holistic agronomic operations platform, and Hollard Mozambique, a premier insurance group in Mozambique, have partnered to provide digital solutions to local stakeholders offering crop insurance for farmers in their respective value chains
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