https://www.bizcommunity.com/411/650.html North Africa news 15 Food Security news - North Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/411/650.html en-us Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:04:55 +0200 https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/650/243460.html Recent advances in gene editing technology could potentially be used to create disease-resistant animals. This could curtail the spread of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu. 1-243460 Fri, 03 Nov 2023 06:54:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security North Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/650/242765.html A Kenyan court on Thursday, 12 October, threw out a case challenging the importation and cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops, saying the government had taken appropriate measures to regulate their use. 1-242765 Fri, 13 Oct 2023 10:12:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security North Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/650/240223.html The World Meteorological Organization has declared the onset of the first El Niño event in seven years. It estimates 90% probability the climatic phenomenon, involving an unusual warming of the Pacific Ocean, will develop through 2023, and be of moderate strength. 1-240223 Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:42:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security North Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/145/701/239429.html Morocco's OCP plans to invest $7bn in an ammonia plant using green hydrogen, produced from renewable fuel, it told Reuters, as one of the world's biggest phosphates and fertiliser companies seeks to increase output and meet low carbon goals. 1-239429 Tue, 20 Jun 2023 18:13:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security North Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/741/239322.html Key African states stressed the need for grain imports to tackle food insecurity as Russian President Vladimir Putin prepares to discuss with the continent's leaders the fate of a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of food and fertiliser from Ukraine. 1-239322 Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:50:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security North Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/700/235301.html US treasury secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday, 24 January, called for urgent action to improve long-term food security in Africa and around the world, while adapting agricultural practices and technology to the changing climate. 1-235301 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:44:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security North Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/815/234325.html Here's the basic problem for conservation at a global level: food production, biodiversity and carbon storage in ecosystems are competing for the same land. As humans demand more food, so more forests and other natural ecosystems are cleared, and farms intensify and become less hospitable to many wild animals and plants. Therefore global conservation, currently focused on the COP15 summit in Montreal, will fail unless it addresses the underlying issue of food production. 1-234325 Fri, 09 Dec 2022 09:31:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security North Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/650/233668.html Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Russian grain exports could be processed into flour in Turkey and then shipped to Africa to help relieve food shortages there. 1-233668 Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:51:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security North Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/363/233396.html A group of over 85 insurers in Africa has pledged to create a financing facility to provide $14bn of cover to help the continent's most vulnerable communities deal with climate-disaster risks such as floods and droughts. 1-233396 Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:20:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security North Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/650/232086.html The United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (Ifad) is in talks with the International Monetary Fund on joining forces on a new financing programme designed to shore up sustainable growth in poorer countries. 1-232086 Mon, 03 Oct 2022 08:22:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security North Africa