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A joint delegation from the European Union (EU) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is currently in Côte d’Ivoire to evaluate the progress and impact of the FISH4ACP Program.
Nigeria’s Environment Minister Balarabe Abbas Lawal, says that Nigeria in partnership with the World Bank, is intensifying efforts to combat food insecurity and land degradation through the expansion of rainwater harvesting under the Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes programme.
“Before, farming was an unattainable dream. Today, I feed my children from the land.” These words from Assia Obakar Hassan, a mother from the village of Kalaf, epitomize the profound transformation benefiting part of rural northern Djibouti thanks to a regional project implemented by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) with funding from the African Development Bank through the Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF).
Morocco has significantly increased its imports of Russian wheat during the current marketing year, reaching 310,000 tons. This figure represents a substantial 45% increase compared to the 213,000 tons imported in the previous year.
Ghana’s Minister of Finance, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, has announced plans by the government to acquire 200,000 hectares of land for cocoa plantations as part of efforts to revive Ghana’s struggling cocoa sector and restore production levels to 1 million metric tonnes.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has signed a $158.15 million financing agreement for the Value Chain Programme in Northern Nigeria (VCN) to revolutionise agriculture sector in the country.
Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Abubakar Kyari, says that Nigeria lost over N1.3 billion to the outbreak of tomato pests popularly called tomato leaf miner or tomato Ebola in three states of Kano, Katsina and Kaduna in northern Nigeria.
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) recently hosted a two-day meeting of the Steering Committee of the Partenariat pour le Coton (PPC), a global platform established to support transformation and value addition in the cotton-textile-garment (CTG) sector in developing countries.
Zimbabwe to enact Fisheries and Aquaculture Bill, poised to transform aquaculture industry into a billion-dollar sector.
The Supreme Consultative Council of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), says that cocoa smuggling can be reduced by as much as 80 per cent if a new pricing arrangement proposed by COCOBOD takes effect.