06/24/2023 SOURCE: www.thedailybeast.com
Climate change is poised to wreck our ability to grow many kinds of crops. But there’s one farming staple that could weather the crisis: dairy.
This African Nation’s Surprise Plan for Farming Through Climate Disaster
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06/21/2023 SOURCE: news.mongabay.com
Tanzania is Africa’s second-biggest producer of honey, and to get it to the next level, the country’s government and aid agencies want beekeepers to adopt hanging-frame beehive designs to increase their production and income. But beekeepers have been reluctant to abandon their traditional hives made from hollow logs. What do they know that the technical […]
For Tanzania’s traditional beekeepers, modern hives just don’t buzz
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06/21/2023 SOURCE: businessfightspoverty.org
An estimated 140 million people in Africa are facing acute food insecurity[1], yet, in Kenya alone, 50% of all productive soil is badly degraded. Worse still, because of record droughts, half of Kenya
Women Smallholders Will Drive Africa’s Transition to Regenerative Agriculture
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06/18/2023 SOURCE: www.efeedlink.com
The Provincial Veterinary (ProVet) of Antique, the Philippines, has warned local hog raisers against errant traders offering to buy their hogs at a lower price due to a suspected case of African swine fever (ASF) that was reported in the municipality of Hamtic.
Antique, Philippines, warns of dubious traders seeking to buy hogs at lower prices following ASF outbreak
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06/18/2023 SOURCE: www.efeedlink.com
Izaak Breitenbach, general manager of the South African Poultry Association (Sapa), said that the latest highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak in the Western Cape resulted in 550 000 chickens culled and many eggs destroyed to contain the disease, Moneyweb reported.
550,000 chickens culled in bird flu outbreak at Western Cape, South Africa
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06/18/2023 SOURCE: theconversation.com
South Africa’s agriculture could do even better but is held back by power cuts and poor infrastructure
Farming in South Africa is being hobbled by power cuts and poor roads. Rural towns are being hit hardest
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06/16/2023 SOURCE: newsinvasion24.com
MEC for Agriculture and Rural Development, Saki Mokoena, handed over ten (10) expectant female cows and one bull to Tshepiso Matobako
Free State Young Matobako ditches Microphone study for Agriculture
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06/16/2023 SOURCE: www.agriculture.com
Key African states stressed the need for grain imports to tackle food insecurity as Russian President Vladimir Putin gears up to discuss with continent's leaders the fate of Black Sea exports.
Africa needs grain imports, key states say ahead of Putin talks
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06/16/2023 SOURCE: theconversation.com
Nigeria can produce more rice to feed its burgeoning population by harnessing its wastewater.
Nigeria is Africa's leading rice producer, but still needs more - reusing wastewater for irrigation would boost farming
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06/15/2023 SOURCE: news.yahoo.com
Jane Barlow/PA Wire/Press Association via AP ImagesThe landlocked country of Malawi, in southeast Africa, is home to just 19.1 million people. According to the U.N., more than 2.8 million of these people—nearly 15 percent of the entire population—currently face starvation. Much of the reason, unsurprisingly, is climate-related: The country’s Ministry of Agriculture has stated that the production of corn—the country’s main staple food—dropped by 14 percent the previous year, as a result of severe
This African Nation’s Surprise Plan for Farming Through Climate Disaster
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