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Vulnerable South Sudanese families get FAO seeds, tools

Ahead of the 2016 farming season and in order to give farmers enough time for proper land preparation and planting, the Food and Agriculture...

Farming, forestry top list of jobs most linked to suicide

A US study has listed farmers and foresters among the people most likely to take their own life. The research carried out by America's Centres for Disease Control...

Weed control: 11,000 farmers for IITA’s on-farm trials

For the 2016 farming season, the Steering Committee of the Cassava Weed Management Project, which is managed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture...

GEF/UNDP scheme fosters resilience, tackles food insecurity

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) in conjunction with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has commenced the implementation of a programme aimed at promoting...

Images: Manual flower pollination in China as bees disappear

In parts of rural China, humans are doing the work bees once did. Striking new photos show farm workers in Hanyuan county, in China’s Sichuan...

Food security concerns as cocoyam disappears in Arochukwu

Cocoyam, a root crop, for many years served as a major source of revenue for rural women in the ancient town of Arochukwu in Abia...

Giving a voice to the ‘missing’ women in India’s climate plans

Women have the power to put India on the course to a green sustainable future, specifically, poor rural women working in the agriculture sector. India’s economy...

World Food Day 2014: Family farmers key to alleviating global hunger – FAO

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has recognised family farmers as central to solving global hunger and malnutrition. According to FAO,...

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Maduro’s capture: The geopolitical bombshell igniting Africa’s energy opportunity

THE world woke to news that felt ripped from a geopolitical thriller: U.S. special forces executed a precision operation...
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Blaise Odunze: NNPC’s $1.42bn, N5.57trn debt write-off and test of Nigeria’s fiscal governance

When the Federal Government approved the write-off of about $1.42 billion and N5.57 trillion in legacy debts owed by...

Kidnappers kill Abuja-based lawyer, Princess Nwamaka Chigbo

The family of Princess Nwamaka Mediatrix Chigbo, an Abuja-based lawyer, is saddened to announce her brutal death at the...

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Maduro’s capture: The geopolitical bombshell igniting Africa’s energy opportunity

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