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TOPIC(S): Genes /Genetics, Ag Africa,

06/26/2023 SOURCE: www.nature.com

Ancient DNA reveals how farming spread into northwest Africa

Nature - Genomic data from archaeological sites across Morocco.

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TOPIC(S): Forestry, Ag Africa,

06/26/2023 SOURCE: www.motherjones.com

Here’s How Small Farmers Across Africa Are Bringing Back Trees

The continent's forests are disappearing—but there is new growth to celebrate.

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TOPIC(S): Ag Africa, Food Security/Shortage,

06/24/2023 SOURCE: www.news-medical.net

Seaweed farming may help solve global hunger and malnutrition

To help solve hunger and malnutrition while also slowing climate change, some farmers could shift from land to sea, suggests a recent study from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

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TOPIC(S): Ag Africa, Weather,

06/24/2023 SOURCE: www.thedailybeast.com

This African Nation’s Surprise Plan for Farming Through Climate Disaster

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.

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TOPIC(S): Beekeeping, Ag Africa,

06/22/2023 SOURCE: news.mongabay.com

For Tanzania’s traditional beekeepers, modern hives just don’t buzz

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 […]

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TOPIC(S): Ag Africa, Regenerative Agriculture, Carbon Farming,

06/22/2023 SOURCE: businessfightspoverty.org

Women Smallholders Will Drive Africa’s Transition to Regenerative Agriculture

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

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TOPIC(S): Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog, Ag Asia / Pacific, Ag Africa,

06/18/2023 SOURCE: www.efeedlink.com

Antique, Philippines, warns of dubious traders seeking to buy hogs at lower prices following ASF outbreak

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.

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TOPIC(S): Poultry, Ag Africa,

06/18/2023 SOURCE: www.efeedlink.com

550,000 chickens culled in bird flu outbreak at Western Cape, South Africa

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.

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TOPIC(S): Ag Africa,

06/18/2023 SOURCE: theconversation.com

Farming in South Africa is being hobbled by power cuts and poor roads. Rural towns are being hit hardest

South Africa’s agriculture could do even better but is held back by power cuts and poor infrastructure

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TOPIC(S): Beef Cattle, Ag Africa, Ranching,

06/16/2023 SOURCE: newsinvasion24.com

Free State Young Matobako ditches Microphone study for Agriculture

MEC for Agriculture and Rural Development, Saki Mokoena, handed over ten (10) expectant female cows and one bull to Tshepiso Matobako

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