Rwanda will host the coffee Cup of Excellence competition in August. This was revealed last week by the OCIR Cafe Marketing Manager, Beninya Izabiriza, during a fundraising ceremony for the Cup of Excellence competition at Serena Hotel. The event that
Members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the National Assembly have agreed to be part of the Rural Watch Award for Excellence, coming up in Abuja in September this year.
Lack of resources and technical capacity among the Southern African Development Community (SADC) coastal member states are some of the reasons the region is unable to effectively deal with the "cancer" of illegal fishing, estimated to cost the region N$8
Emerging farmers flocked to another edition of a one-day public lecture series in Windhoek on Thursday, receiving practical tips from experts on topics like proper marketing of livestock, successful farming methods and veterinary first aid.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is hoping to convince the government to show "political will" on the issue of food prices and regulate basic food prices when it marches on Parliament tomorrow.
Slowly but surely, the farming community here is now increasingly visiting the Agriculture Extension Office, to the pleasure and satisfaction of Ewald Tjihuro, the new kid on the block as far as agricultural extension is concerned.
Sheep farmers who wanted to start a boycott of local abattoirs yesterday postponed the exercise in order to give Government a month to come up with a solution to the highly unpopular export restrictions Cabinet imposed on them.
Rarely has World Food Day assumed greater meaning than at the present time, as rapidly rising food prices risk increasing the number of hungry people, notes FAO's Chief of World Food Day events, Sidaty Aidara.
1. We are deeply concerned that the steep rise in global food prices coupled with availability problems in a number of developing countries is threatening global food security. The negative impacts of this recent trend could push millions more back
Members of the National Council on Agriculture came out of an emergency meeting in Abuja last week in full agreement that Nigeria needed a revolution in the sector. They were however not sure whether the country could implement the current
The heads of the three United Nations agencies based in Rome today called on G8 leaders to help feed the world by contributing to a new green revolution through much-increased public financing to agricultural development.
Fresh produce industry regulator, Horticultural Crops Development Authority (HCDA), is proposing contract farming as a way to contain middlemen who have wreaked havoc in the value chain.
The United Nations agencies working to alleviate global hunger have called for decisive action by the Group of Eight (G8) most industrialised countries, currently meeting in Japan, to boost investment in agriculture to help feed the world.
A R100 (US$13) remittance from a relative living in South Africa was a lifeline to food for Lydia Nxumalo, 36, and her family in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city.
Swaziland's anticipated maize harvest this year will be double the size it was in 2007, when drought devastated the crop, but still not enough. According to UN estimates, over 20 percent of the country's one million people face the possibility
Farmscape for July 8, 2008 (Episode 2899) Manitoba Pork Marketing says the province's swine producers have adjusted exceptionally well to the closure of its Winnipeg Assembly yard. At the end of June Manitoba Pork Marketing accepted the last load of
