food security
1 Oct
A wave of floods in northern Nigeria is washing away rice fields and is posing concerns for food security. Nkiru Okpareke, CEO of Enviro Gro Farms joins CNBC Africa for this discussion.
2 Sep 2022
Aid organizations say tens of millions of people are facing extreme hunger in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. They are dependent on grain imported from Ukraine and also from Russia. Cary Fowler is the U.S. special envoy for global food security and is on the line.
10 Aug 2022
Stacks of hairy yams line a market in Ibadan, Nigeria, where traders haggle over quality and price before loading them into cars for the last mile to consumers. Nearby, a man navigates heavy traffic with a hand cart piled high with the tubers. Yams - pounded into paste, ground into flour, boiled or fried – provide sustenance and livelihoods across West Africa.
29 Jun 2022
Spiking food prices caused by the war in Ukraine are threatening to push more people to the brink of starvation. If G7 countries don't deliver on aid, poorer nations might turn elsewhere.
12 Mar 2021
Kidnapping of rice farmers threaten food security in Nigeria - RIFAN
25 Sep 2020
With the increasing pressure on natural resources due to Covid-19, climate change, and overpopulation, small-scale agriculture has become one of the best tools to ensure global food security.
15 Nov 2019
Thrive Agric is a Technology-driven agricultural company passionate about ensuring global food security by funding farmers from people with the promise of decent returns at the end of each farming cycle.
15 Nov 2019
Thrive Agric is a Technology-driven agricultural company passionate about ensuring global food security by funding farmers from people with the promise of decent returns at the end of each farming cycle.
7 Apr 2019
Africa's food security is severely affected by climate change. So a German entrepreneur wants to adapt harvesting technologies for the African market to help quickly process crops and protect them from spoilage.
24 Jan 2017
Scientists develop a synthetic molecule that has been shown to increase the size and starch content of wheat grains in the lab by up to 20 per cent, with possibly significant implications for global food security.
14 Sep 2016
South Africa's High Commissioner to Nigeria, H.E. Darkey Ephraim Africa, and other speakers at The Guardian Conferences and Masterclasses on Food Security, point out more potent ways of developing Nigeria's economy.
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