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Africa: Nairobi Summit Explores Africa’s Sustainability, Food Security Challenges

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Nairobi — Leaders from the private sector, NGOs and development organisations gathered in Nairobi for the Geopolitics of Sustainability in Africa Summit to discuss food security, climate transition and Africa’s economic resilience. The forum highlighted Africa’s push to move beyond raw material exports towards value-added manufacturing, resilient intra-African trade and sustainable economic transformation, amid concerns…

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Central Africa’s Wild Meat Dilemma – Why Outright Bans Threaten Food Security for Millions

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Millions of people in central Africa rely on wild meat for their nutrition, especially in rural areas around the Congo rainforest, the second largest tropical rainforest in the world. Here, meat from domestic animals is scarce due to poor national transport infrastructure, livestock diseases and lack of forage. As a result, wild meat and freshwater…

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Africa: Fertiliser Plants – Dangote Vows to Ensure Food Security in Africa

eriinfo.com1 month ago06 mins

President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has reaffirmed his commitment to boosting food security across Africa through large-scale fertiliser investments, declaring that the continent has the capacity to feed itself and become a net exporter of agricultural products. Dangote made this known while addressing journalists in Gode, in Ethiopia’s Somali region, during a high-profile…

China should stop hoarding food and fertiliser, says former World Bank chief

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David Malpass also said that Beijing’s claim to be a developing nation is no longer credible.

Al-Qaeda-linked fighters storm Mali prison, block food supplies to Bamako | Conflict News

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Fighters attack ‘Africa’s Alcatraz’, which detains high-value prisoners, and disrupt crucial supply chains to the capital. In a new wave of attacks in Mali, an al-Qaeda-linked group has stormed a main prison housing fighters from the armed group and set fire to trucks with food supplies heading to the capital Bamako. Fighters from the Jama’at…

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Africa: Fast Facts – 30 Years of Life-Saving Therapeutic Food for Children, Yet Millions More Still Need It – Unicef

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New York — For three decades, a small sachet of fortified peanut paste has been one of the most powerful tools to combat severe wasting – the deadliest form of malnutrition – in children under five. Today, more than 12 million children globally are suffering from severe wasting. As conflict, climate shocks, and funding pressures…

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Africa: The Hormuz Chokepoint Is Threatening Africa’s Food Supply

eriinfo.com2 months ago011 mins

Fertiliser disruption exposes a blind spot that farm-level policy has long ignored – but Africa holds the resources to fix it. Africa’s next food crisis may not begin on the farm, but in a distant shipping lane. With the Iran war, international attention has focused on oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz and related…

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African Institutions in Plan to Stabilise Food, Fuel and Fertiliser Amid Mideast War

eriinfo.com2 months ago011 mins

Tangier, Morocco — Fearing the Middle East war could drive millions into hunger and cripple economies, Africa’s leading institutions are drafting a strategy to mobilise domestic and “innovative” finance and harness national competitiveness to stabilise food, fuel, and fertiliser supplies. The African Union Commission (AUC), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Development Bank…

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Africa: Extreme Heat Pushing Global Food Systems to the Brink, UN Agencies Warn

eriinfo.com2 months ago06 mins

Extreme heat is pushing global food and farming systems to the brink, threatening the livelihoods of over a billion people as rising temperatures and more frequent heatwaves redefine how food is produced worldwide, a new UN report warns. The joint report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) finds…

South Africans curious but cautious about 3D-printed food

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Consumers show cautious openness to 3D-printed food. (Image created by Gemini) A study by the University of Johannesburg (UJ) has found that consumer attitudes, rather than technological capability, will ultimately determine whether 3D-printed food gains mainstream acceptance in South Africa. The research, conducted by the Centre for Innovative Food Research within UJ’s Department of Biotechnology…