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Human Welfare

Food insecurity: No place at the dining table

Sharing a meal is one basic need of humans but for too many the question “what’s for lunch” doesn’t have an easy answer. Food...
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Agric & Biotech

Climate change: Farmer raises concern over delayed rainfall

An organic farmer, Mr Uche Ikenga, has raised alarm over the delay in the coming of the 2020 rainy season in some parts of...
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Agric & Biotech

Kwara farmers express concern over indiscriminate bush burning

Farmers in Ilorin have called on the Kwara State Government for urgent intervention over what he described as indiscriminate bush burning in parts of...
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Climate Change

Climate change: Experts advocate solar irrigation for female farmers, smallholders seek support

Some people see the effect of climate change as only experiencing heat instead of cold weather but, to a smallholder farmer like Comfort Oyadeji,...
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Agric & Biotech

Farmers, scientists advocate use of biotechnology to boost food production

Following the impact of COVID-19 and banditry activities in the country, agriculturalists and scientists have advocated the use of biotechnology to be deployed...
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Agric & Biotech

Nigeria: Agriculture and nation building

For a country to be ideally independent, it must be self-sufficient. When a country has difficulty in producing what it consumes, then there is...
Michael Simire -
Agric & Biotech

Expert links cognitive decline to use of agricultural pesticides

Prof. Suleiman Ambali of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State in Nigeria has warned that use of organophosphate pesticides, especially by arable and livestock...
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Agric & Biotech

Partnership to educate farmers on use of GM cowpea technology

The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) is collaborating with the National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS) to provide useful and timely information...
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COP28: African CSOs demand increased renewable energy, adaptation finance to continent

As climate negotiations at COP28 enter the homestretch in Dubai, African Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and representatives from affected...

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