World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Food Security
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With Sensors and Apps, Young African Coders Compete to Curb Hunger
From an app to diagnose disease on Zambian farms to Tinder-style matchmaking for Senegalese land owners and young farmers, young coders have been finding solutions to hunger in the first Africa-wide hackathon
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South Sudan: Malnutrition Threatens Thousands of Kids
Khartoum — SOME 300 000 South Sudanese children are at high risk of death from malnutrition emanating from deteriorating food insecurity in the war-torn country. More than 6 million locals, including
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The linkages between migration, agriculture, food security and rural development
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the International Organization for Migration and the World Food Programme
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Wheat gene map to help 'feed the world'
The starting pistol has been fired in a race to develop "climate change resistant" wheat with the publication of a map of the crop's genes. An international team of scientists has identified the location
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Erratic weather shapes 2018 as one of worst years for Kenyan farmers
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- A majority of Kenyan farmers cannot wait for 2018 to end as the year shapes out to be one of the toughest, thanks to erratic weather. The weather in the East African nation has been
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East Africa to develop policy on aflatoxin to boost food security
The East African Community member (EAC) states plan to develop a policy framework to address the human and animal health threat of aflatoxin contamination and boost food security, the economic bloc said
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The number of food insecure persons in the Southern to increase this year
Windhoek- The SADC Directorate of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources has revealed that the number of food insecure population in the region for 2018/2019 will be higher, compared to the 2017/18
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Low Education Show Connected to Food Insecurity and Venerability in Liberia
Liberian households headed by individuals with little or no education are more vulnerable to food insecurity while the opposite is true for households headed by someone who has attended a technical institute
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Drought coming for SADC
Southern African Development Community farmers have been advised not to sell their food stocks harvested last season as the region expects an extended dry spell this coming rainy season. SADC director
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Security Council says alarmed by food insecurity in South Sudan
The United Nations Security Council Friday said alarmed by the level of food insecurity in South Sudan and called to allow unfettered humanitarian access to the needy in the troubled country. The Council