The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have joined forces and highlighted that food safety is a shared responsibility in which everyone has a role to play, from governments, industry and producers to business operators and consumers
Infrastructure
Elsenburg Agricultural Training Institute reopens for students
Western Cape minister of agriculture Dr Ivan Meyer has welcomed back senior students at the Elsenburg Agricultural Training Institute (EATI) and urged the students to adhere to all the COVID-19 safety measures
Bühler and Big Idea Ventures to boost alternative protein products
Bühler and Big Idea Ventures are joining forces to accelerate the success journey of promising start-ups creating great tasting alternatives to animal derived protein products
Beat Drone deploys drones to disinfect Nigerian communities
Nigerian Startup Beat Drone, which has experience in spraying farmlands all over Nigeria, deploys its drones to disinfect communities and save them from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation
FMN Group starts COVID-19 response operations
In its attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19 virus, the agribusiness company Flour Mills of Nigeria PLC (FMN Group) has promised to redeem a pledge worth US$280mn to the Nigerian Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID)