Agric & Biotech

Agric & Biotech

Locust outbreak destroys 700,000 hectares of land in Namibia

Namibia has allocated 20 million Namibian dollars ($1.4 million) to fight a locust outbreak that has so far invaded seven regions and destroyed over...
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Agric & Biotech

USAID’s ‘COVID-19 Food Security Challenge’ provides $3m grants to companies

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched the USAID/Nigeria COVID-19 Food Security Challenge, through which USAID will offer $3 million in funding...
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Agric & Biotech

Stakeholders deliberate on biosafety issues, seek overhaul of regulatory architecture

Deliberations at a physical and virtual conference on “The State of Biosafety in Nigeria” covered regulatory issues, biosecurity, food and farming systems, hunger as...
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Agric & Biotech

Technology adoption leads to increased income for fish farmers in DR Congo

Fisheries and aquaculture sector constitutes an essential source of economic activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), surpassing livestock, accounting for 12% of...
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Agric & Biotech

Over 30 products with GMOs found in Nigerian food market, says HOMEF

A new report by the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) says that the Nigerian food market was infiltrated with over 30 different products...
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Agric & Biotech

Farmers to get insect-resistant, high yielding cowpea this season, says NABDA

Director-General, National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha, on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 has said that the recently released and commercialised Pod Borer...
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Agric & Biotech

Nnimmo Bassey: Emerging technologies and politics of hunger

The number of persons in the world that go to bed hungry hovers around 700 million. The hungry equally fall under the same category...
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Agric & Biotech

Sri Lanka’s president to ‘free’ country of palm oil, cultivation

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka has imposed an immediate ban on the import of palm oil and has ordered the gradual removal of...
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