The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provides Ukrainian agricultural enterprises with 12,000 tonnes of fertilizers for autumn sowing campaign. As a Ukrinform correspondent reports, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea provided aid in the ...
Small and medium agricultural enterprises are the key to transforming food systems and improving food security in Africa. The African continent faces severe food insecurity. Prolonged drought and extreme weather events caused by the climate crisis mean around 23 million people ...
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) plans to support 4,600 of the most vulnerable Ukrainian farms and other agricultural producers during the 2023 spring sowing campaign. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian ...
Pesticides have been detected in flowers not targeted with the chemicals that could be an additional, underestimated threat to pollinators according to new findings by Trinity and DCU, published in the Science of the Total Environment. “This is the first ...
The global avocado market is seeing various developments, as large volumes of the fruit are expected to arrive in the Netherlands from countries such as Peru, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, and Colombia. The quality of Kenyan avocados has significantly improved, ...
Agro-processing is essential for sustained and accelerated economic growth, food security, job creation, and poverty reduction. In February 2020, President Nana Akufo-Addo announced that Ghana will no longer export raw cocoa beans and instead intends to process more and more of ...
Under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, Africa’s need to import so much will be reduced, and domestic processing capacity boosted massively. Agriculture accounts for roughly one-third of the African continent’s GDP provides a livelihood for 50% of ...
For years, society has had to deal with a phenomenon called gender-based violence (GBV) and the consequences of it are devastating and can have life-long repercussions for survivors. Gender-based violence is deeply rooted in gender inequality and continues to be ...