https://www.bizcommunity.com/417/650.html Rest of Africa news 15 Food Security news - Rest of Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/417/650.html en-us Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:56:33 +0200 https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/157/358/200310.html The fourth Agri-Food Tech & Innovation Summit (AFTI EA 2020), hosted by the Africa Agri Council (AAC) is set to explore the upsurge in new thinking and the game-changing developments in agricultural practices and technology, and what is needed to scale these innovations to reach smallholder farmers and agribusinesses. "We have the technology and the innovations to make a difference, yet these innovations aren't reaching the smallholder farmers who need them most - they lack access to the right information at the right time," says Ben Leyka, AAC MD. 1-200310 Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:20:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security Rest of Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/643/198416.html The Government of Italy, with support from the FAO, recently held an event highlighting Mediterranean and other traditional healthy diets as fundamental to a food system that respects the environment, culture and well-being of people, and sustainable development. 1-198416 Thu, 28 Nov 2019 07:52:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security Rest of Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/650/198265.html Scientists are calling on African policymakers to act urgently to control the use of pesticides called neonicotinoids, which threaten the wider ecosystem and food security, and have been banned by the European Union. 1-198265 Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:00:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security Rest of Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/520/197072.html The EU, the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) have signed a €40m, five-year programme (FISH4ACP) to boost the development of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. 1-197072 Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:50:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security Rest of Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/643/196046.html Noting that food systems are huge economic, social and environmental drivers of transformational change, FAO director-general Qu Dongyu believes turning them into accelerators of progress on the SDGs is essential to achieving several core objectives of the 2030 Agenda. These include ending extreme poverty, addressing hunger an all forms of malnutrition, protecting and restoring the world's biodiversity and natural resources, and combatting and building resilience to climate change. 1-196046 Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:29:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security Rest of Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/643/194319.html It is no secret that food security, health and sustainability are concerns around the world. The knock-on effect to this is the need to address hunger, lifestyle diseases and climate change. One of the primary considerations of this discussion is centred around changing how agriculture and farming are being done. 1-194319 Wed, 14 Aug 2019 13:59:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security Rest of Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/358/192617.html CTA has awarded four grants to support the use of blockchain in agriculture across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). With CTA's support Bioversity International, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Erba 96 and Nitidae will implement blockchain projects in Côte d'Ivoire; Papua New Guinea; Sierra Leone; Trinidad and Tobago; and Uganda. 1-192617 Mon, 01 Jul 2019 10:12:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security Rest of Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/520/192444.html According to a new FAO working paper investigating an array of species and related livelihoods that too often are undervalued, small freshwater fish around Africa offer a large and underrecognised opportunity to boost food and nutrition security. 1-192444 Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:31:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security Rest of Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/650/191775.html Listeria in processed meat products from South Africa, E. Coli in romaine lettuce in the US, Salmonella in eggs across Europe and Campylobacter in chicken liver pâté in Australia. These are among the many pathogens and foods at the centre of recent food safety crises worldwide, estimated to impact as many people as infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB. 1-191775 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:43:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security Rest of Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/358/190949.html A European Commission task force, which included a researcher from the South African Centre of Excellence in Food Security, has released a series of recommendations on ways to unlock the economic potential of struggling rural Africa. 1-190949 Tue, 21 May 2019 14:22:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Food Security Rest of Africa