Follow AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-agriculture Sun, 26 Sep 2021 16:11:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYtAxiNOQu0rwX50KYzL9tX [The Conversation Africa] New farming technologies have the potential to improve livelihoods and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Better seed varieties, soil fertility practices and pest management can all increase productivity. A United Nations Development Programme report says growth in the region's agriculture is more effective than other economic sectors when it comes to ending hunger and reducing poverty.]]> Sun, 26 Sep 2021 15:07:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYtAxiNOQu0rwX50KYzL9tX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEZlvHoP9LwH6qgzzHWHxDTV [Thomson Reuters Foundation] Cities can support the transformation needed in food systems to tackle global challenges like hunger, poverty and climate change.]]> Sun, 26 Sep 2021 10:26:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEZlvHoP9LwH6qgzzHWHxDTV https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEZlvHoP9LwH6rkdRKkm2PJP [IPS] Lethbridge -- Food processing extends shelf-life and can transforms raw food into attractive, marketable products. It can also prevent contamination. The transformation can involve numerous physical and chemical processes such as mincing, cooking, canning, liquefaction, pickling, macerating, emulsification, irradiation and lyophilization. Frozen processed and raw food changes transport and storage requirements radically; while the packaging of food, both raw and processed, is an industry unto itself.]]> Sun, 26 Sep 2021 10:23:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEZlvHoP9LwH6rkdRKkm2PJP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEbWFEliLiHfcDErtZyObPkc [Thomson Reuters Foundation] The global forum has wasted the chance to consider real alternatives to our corporate-led, environmentally harmful ways of producing what we eat]]> Sun, 26 Sep 2021 10:10:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEbWFEliLiHfcDErtZyObPkc https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYbrtJoguPSbqrkJyTkC_2b [Capital FM] Nairobi -- About 2.1 million people in Kenya's Arid and Semi- Arid Lands (ASAL) are food insecure due to failed rains, low agricultural production and high food prices.]]> Sat, 25 Sep 2021 10:03:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYbrtJoguPSbqrkJyTkC_2b https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEatl_0VDTxU3msGk81fO-bN [Daily Maverick] An inaugural garden week in the university town of Stellenbosch, inspired by a Catalonian flower festival, will showcase nature through talks, tours, art, wine and food.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 15:02:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEatl_0VDTxU3msGk81fO-bN https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEZD52sd4aAFSRtLdxSOwF-n [Thomson Reuters Foundation] Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 13:00:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEZD52sd4aAFSRtLdxSOwF-n https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYeL1eXlYEmt8lTP0vptTFR [Daily Maverick] For the first time, governments are convening around the issue of food as part of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit. This is rightfully happening against the backdrop of a global pandemic, which accentuated the vulnerability of immunocompromised populations and weak global health systems.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:59:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYeL1eXlYEmt8lTP0vptTFR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYeL1eXlYEmt96jHbRcHw3s [IPS] Ottawa, Canada -- Current food systems are no longer fit for the 21st century. Inequitable distribution, poor nutritional habits, and climate change are three issues breaking down our global food systems today, forcing us to look for solutions to transform them. Food aid - very much part of our global food systems - needs to be responsive to the challenges that lie ahead.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:56:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYeL1eXlYEmt96jHbRcHw3s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYeL1eXlYEmt95ZnUTwRGH7 [IPS] New York -- With the world still counting the social and economic costs of the Covid-19 pandemic, amid a fresh "code red" on the climate crisis, food may not seem like the most pressing threat to humanity.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:56:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYeL1eXlYEmt95ZnUTwRGH7 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYeL1eXlYEmt2W0GqTRQSgk [Thomson Reuters Foundation] Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:44:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYeL1eXlYEmt2W0GqTRQSgk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYSePdxgARtRMlTP0vptTFR [This Day] President Muhammadu Buhari has stressed the commitment of the federal government to attaining food security.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:27:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYSePdxgARtRMlTP0vptTFR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYSePdxgARtREQqW5gBv7mX [This Day] The current global situation calls for drastic actions given the numerous challenges that include the COVID-19 pandemic, poverty in poor African countries, climate change and inequality.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:27:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYSePdxgARtREQqW5gBv7mX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYSePdxgARtRJu9CxXrVx4c [Daily Trust] The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has raised the alarm over the abuse of codeine among youths as well as the wrong use of sniper and insecticides to preserve foods.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:25:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYSePdxgARtRJu9CxXrVx4c https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEafalTEjAqJTIIAmcWJ0TmB [VOA] United Nations -- Nearly half the planet cannot afford healthy food, the United Nations secretary-general warned at a food summit Thursday that seeks to improve global food production and access.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:43:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEafalTEjAqJTIIAmcWJ0TmB https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYCSRCjmPD8f93hDS9njgCr [The Point] Food self-sufficiency, good road connectivity, adequate water supply and uninterrupted electricity supply are basic necessities of life. Once citizens have access to these necessities, the tendency of citizen's criticising the government's dismal performance, is very minimal.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:28:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYCSRCjmPD8f93hDS9njgCr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEZxU-_bZrZA78fGo0LrnZNO [The Herald] Zimbabwe is set to benefit from a US$6,9 million project which was launched recently to combat animal trypanosomiasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by biting flies including tsetse that continue to cause serious economic losses for smallholder farmers in Africa.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:01:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEZxU-_bZrZA78fGo0LrnZNO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEarab7MeNUJkoeLGixeGJZp [Daily News] CASHEW farmers in Lindi and Mtwara regions have warmly welcomed the ' Vuna zaidi na NBC Shambani' campaign run by NBC Bank in the regions, noting that the product has solved their long-standing financial challenges including loans delays and extreme deductions on financial transactions.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 09:14:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEarab7MeNUJkoeLGixeGJZp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEarab7MeNUJknMq2h3ehXEp [Daily News] Tanzania Prison Services (TPS) has singled out an ambitious plan to intensify irrigation farming by using modern equipment in its various prisons in efforts to feed prisons countrywide instead of depending on subsidies from the government.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 09:14:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEarab7MeNUJknMq2h3ehXEp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYqntdN1onR_W0dX84dnP8Y [This Day] Abuja -- The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Muhammed Abubakar, yesterday said the federal government is currently working to provide incentives to feed millers and agribusiness companies as well as support various research institutes in developing alternative feed ingredients for production of animal feeds.]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2021 08:18:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/y6RXibJTWEYqntdN1onR_W0dX84dnP8Y