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The IAEA and OCP Group Partner to Strengthen Global Food Security

eriinfo.com2 days ago08 mins

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and OCP Group, a global leader in plant nutrition solutions, have launched a five-year strategic partnership to accelerate scientific innovation for sustainable agriculture and resilient food systems. This collaboration will directly support the Atoms4Food initiative. Under the agreement, theInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and OCP Group will launch a coordinated research project (CRP) applying…

Kids trapped in Texas immigration facility recount inedible food, no school, nightmares

eriinfo.com5 days ago06 mins

The psychological toll can be just as severe. During a recent visit, Lee said, a 5-year-old girl described a recurring nightmare: A large animal chases her, but she can’t outrun it because she’s trapped in a cage. She and her siblings “wake up crying for their mom every night because they’re worried they’re going to…

One family’s daily struggle reflects alarming food shortages in Yemen | Hunger

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago07 mins

Listen to this article | 5 mins Sanaa, Yemen — Until a few years ago, Mehdi Galeb Nasr earned a living pushing an ice cream cart through the streets of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, moving between neighbourhoods to support his family. His livelihood became impossible after his eyesight began to deteriorate rapidly. “Selling ice cream was my…

Canadian PM Carney unveils multibillion-dollar push to lower food costs | Inflation News

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago05 mins

Carney has been under pressure from the opposition to lower prices of food and other essentials for lower-income people. Published On 26 Jan 202626 Jan 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a multibillion-dollar package as part of a series of measures aimed at lowering…

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Africa: Growing Demand for Local Products in Africa’s €1bn Baby Food Market

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago05 mins

Across Africa, a third of children under the age of five suffer from chronic malnutrition, according to Unicef, while in recent years the baby food industry has been rocked by a series of scandals, many involving major multinationals. But a growing number of local agri-food companies are moving into the baby food market. Ivorian Marie-Ange…

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Africa: Viruses Aren’t All Bad / In the Ocean, Some Help Fuel the Food Web – A New Study Shows How

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago08 mins

Virus. The word evokes images of illness and fears of outbreaks. Yet, in the oceans, not all viruses are bad news. Some play a helpful, even critical, role in sustaining marine life. In a new study, we and an international team scientists examined the behavior of marine viruses in a large band of oxygen-rich water…

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Africa: Excluding Food Systems From Climate Deal Is a Recipe for Disaster

eriinfo.com1 month ago014 mins

Food solutions were on display everywhere around COP30–from the 80 tonnes of local and agroecological meals served to concrete proposals for tackling hunger–but none of this made it into the negotiating rooms or the final agreement. –Elisabetta Recine, IPES-Food panel expert – As they ate catered meals, COP30 negotiators had no appetite for fixing broken…

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Africa: AU Launches Foresight Consultation On Africa Agri-Food Systems to Advance Its Food System Resilience Programme

eriinfo.com2 months ago08 mins

The African Union Commission convened the Continental Foresight Consultations for Agrifood Systems transformation in Nairobi, Kenya, from 8 to 10 December 2025, to support implementation of the CAADP Kampala Declaration under the Agenda 2063 “The Africa that We Want “. The consultations brought together stakeholders under the leadership of H.E. Moses Vilakati, Commissioner for Agriculture,…

UN experts: Kenya’s seed sharing ruling a milestone for peasants’ rights and food security

eriinfo.com2 months ago06 mins

The Court stressed that centuries-old practices of seed-sharing form the backbone of Kenya’s food security and cultural heritage. PHOTO/FILE. By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT [email protected] UN experts have welcomed a landmark ruling of the High Court of Kenya declaring unconstitutional provisions of the Seed and Plant Varieties Act that criminalised the saving, use, exchange and sale of…

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Africa: South Africa’s Water, Energy and Food Crisis – Why Fixing One Means Fixing Them All

eriinfo.com2 months ago011 mins

South Africa faces serious water, energy and food problems. Drought, overuse and ageing infrastructure strain water supplies. Coal-fired electricity is not sustainable in the long term and causes high greenhouse gas emissions. Tens of millions of people can’t afford enough food because of rising prices. These crises are interconnected: water is needed to grow food…