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Africa Agricultural Journalists NetworkUganda hosts 5th Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week
Attended by participants from over 12 African countries, the 5th Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension week was held at Munyonyo Commonwealth hotel in Kampala. The 7-days conference which started on November 14, was...
Access Agriculture Wins FAO’s 2021 Innovation Award
Access Agriculture Executive Director Josephine Rodgers After receiving the Award By Doreen Mpofu-SouthAfrica Access Agriculture has won 2021 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the...
ILO Awards $300,000 to West Nile AgriPrenuers to Boost Cassava & SimSim Production
International Labour Organization has awarded Ten Agriprenuer business firms with $30,000 each as a grant from the Netherlands government to boost production and value addition to cassava and Simsim Value chains in...
Nile Breweries Installs Rural Weather Stations In Uganda
Flora Aduki and Grace Musimami Weather prediction is a challenge that many farmers suffer especially those growing crops like barley. According to Livingstone Tumusiime, a farmer in Bufundi Sub country, Rubanda district...
Germany Government Injects 2.3million EUR in FAO’s Fight Desert Locusts
Agatha Ayebazibwe-FAO The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany has made a contribution of 2.3 million EUR to boost efforts of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the fight...
AUDA-NEPAD, Ecobank Group Commit Funds For Africa’s Micro SMEs
The AUDA-NEPAD programme will pool African resources, capabilities, financing, market access and technology, to help achieve a continental response to Micro Small and Medium Enterprises. By: Kezirone Wokubira The...
AGRA RELEASES AFRICA COVID 19: SITUATION REPORTS
FOOD INSECURITY GROWS AS COVID-19 SPREADS ACROSS AFRICA Grace Musimami The Alliance for Green Revolution in African AGRA has launched a situation report bringing together timely information from its headquarter and...
AUDA-NEPAD, RECs, CSOs CALL FOR INCREASED NUTRITION FINANCING IN FACE OF COVID 19.
By Grace Musimami: The African Union development Agency AUDA-NEPAD) has called on African countries to increase on nutrition financing as they hustle with the COVID 19 Pandemic, During a COVID-Scaling up nutrition e...
New Cocoa Seed Variety Brings Hope to Cameroon Farmers
A new cocoa seed variety called “Brazilian cacao” is bringing smiles and hope to Cameroon Farmers, the seed that offers far better yields offers a positive direction to the growth of the Cameroonian farmer and economy...