GM crops to boost food and nutrition security in Ghana
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGHANA continues to be open for import of GM crops, with no restrictions to feed and feed products from other regions. This is according to the agricultural biotechnology report for Ghana released by the US Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service-Global Agricultural Information Network. According to the report, the Government of Ghana recognizes the potential of biotechnology as […]
Aerial images detect and track food security threats for millions of African farmers
Reading Time: 2 minutesNEW research shows how a combination of imagery from mobile phones, drones and satellites can be used to clamp down on banana threats. The images of varying resolutions are fed into a platform “trained” through machine learning to identify banana crops and analyze threats with 97% overall accuracy. The findings were published in the ISPRS Journal […]
World Food Programme earns Nobel Peace Prize 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutesTHE Nobel Peace Prize 2020 is awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP) for their top notch contribution in combating hunger, preventing hunger being used as a weapon of war and as a tool in conflicts. The Norwegian Nobel Committee had applauds WFP by giving this award as an acknowledgement of their priceless effort in […]
The need to reduce food loss and waste urgently
Reading Time: 4 minutesAT the global event marking on Sept 29 the first International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and their partners urged everyone to do more to reduce food loss and waste or risk an even greater drop in food security and natural resources. Some […]
3 million face acute food insecurity, Burkina Faso grapples with COVID-19 and conflict
Reading Time: 2 minutesOUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso: Urgent and sustained action is needed to address worsening food and nutrition insecurity in Burkina Faso, say the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), citing alarming new data. Some 3.3 million people are estimated to be facing acute food insecurity during […]
Worst locust attack in three decades
Reading Time: 4 minutesSINCE RECENTLY massive swarms of locusts have been threatening agricultural production and livelihood across South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. These regions which are battling the global Covid-19 pandemic like the rest of the world – have now to deal with locust invasion which is very damaging to their farmland crops. In India, desert locusts […]
Global food security must be given an ‘all time’ emphasis says expert
Reading Time: 3 minutesKUALA LUMPUR: The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the entire food supply chain not only in Malaysia but globally. Experts say the pandemic calls for the strengthening of food security in order to meet the world’s consumption demands especially during a crisis. [ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=”show” ihc_mb_who=”2,3,5″ ihc_mb_template=”1″ ] The broken food supply chain, labour shortage, closure […]
They live in the most biodiverse place on Earth but they go hungry
Reading Time: 3 minutesMASSIVE seasonal floods mean many ribeirinhos – a marginalised social group who live alongside rivers in Brazil’s Amazonian floodplain forests, struggle to catch enough fish to eat and can go hungry. [ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=”show” ihc_mb_who=”2,3,5″ ihc_mb_template=”1″ ] The Purus River, which flows towards the regional capital city of Manaus, undergoes one of the largest annual variations […]
FAO, UN fight locust plague amid Covid-19 pandemic
Reading Time: 3 minutesROME: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN is continuing its efforts to contain the Desert Locust upsurge in East Africa despite restrictions on the movement of personnel and equipment resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. [ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=”show” ihc_mb_who=”2,3,5″ ihc_mb_template=”1″ ] The Desert Locust upsurge continues to remain alarming, particularly in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, […]
COVID-19 could not have come at a worse time for vulnerable communities across West Africa
Reading Time: 6 minutesWest Africa and the Sahel region in particular have long been prone to droughts and food shortages, and over the past decade, rising insecurity. How is the situation now? This is a complex region – hit by chronic hunger, insecurity, climate change, the threats of a Desert Locust outbreak, and now the pandemic. Year after […]