Egypt to market less cotton this year to decreased harvest
AR Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt’s cotton production in 2025/26 marketing year is estimated at 320,000 bales, down 25 percent from the previous season due to [...] Full text...
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Reshaping the agriculture and food sector for healthier diets: World Bank Blog by Natasha Hayward, Felipe F. Dizon, Elizabeth Ludwig-Borycz, and Dwi Sari Puspaningtyas
AR Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - While hunger is making headlines, malnutrition continues to silently affect millions worldwide, undermining their physical and mental capacities and constraining their [...] Full text...
Illegal fishing causes losses of over US$2 billion a year in West Africa
BBA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Illegal fishing in West Africa causes a loss of more than US$2 billion a year, Abdel Fatau Musah, ECOWAS Commissioner [...] Full text...
Foot and mouth disease outbreaks have not hindered South Africa’s beef exports
AR Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak that has impacted South Africa since 2021 continues to spread in some parts [...] Full text...
FAO warns of ‘unprecedented’ avian flu spread, in call for global action
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - The rapid spread of the highly infectious avian flu virus H5N1 has reached an “unprecedented” scale, wiping out hundreds of millions [...] Full text...
UN expert warns of impact of overfishing on marine ecosystems
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Overfishing has serious repercussions for marine ecosystems, coastal populations and the global climate, an independent UN expert said Friday.Presenting her report [...] Full text...
Is Artificial Intelligence the future of farming? Exploring opportunities and challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: World Bank Blog By Chakib Jenane, Regional Director for Sustainable Development, West and Central Africa, World Bank
AR Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Across Sub-Saharan Africa, a quiet revolution is underway. Smallholder farmers are increasingly leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), once a futuristic [...] Full text...
Halal product market and consumers set to grow in West Africa
AR Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - While the African halal market is estimated at over $150 billion. In the Coastal West Africa Region, Côte d'Ivoire's halal [...] Full text...
New report forecasts better prospects for South Africa’s dairy industry
AR Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s dairy industry is likely to grow in the future due to improving economic factors, despite suffering from many [...] Full text...
Improved quality control kick-starts Kenya’s avocado output in 2025
AR Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya’s avocado production is expected to rebound by four percent in 2025, reaching 585,000 metric tons, supported by an increase in [...] Full text...
Agricultural value chains, a major potential for Africa's development.
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Agricultural value chains hold great potential for the development of the African continent, according to the organizers of the eighth Africa [...] Full text...
Livestock at the heart of the eighth African business forum
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Livestock development will be the focus of the eighth Africa Business Forum, which opens on Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Under the [...] Full text...
Reinforcing pastoralism in the Sahel and West Africa: a decade of progress and the path forward: World Bank Blog By Chakib Jenane, Boutheina Guermazi and Olivier Buyoya
AR Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Pastoralism has long been a hallmark of the cultural, social, and economic landscapes of the Sahel and West Africa, sustaining the [...] Full text...
South Africa resumes apple exports to Thailand
CU Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen has announced that the country has regained market access for fresh apples to [...] Full text...
2024 financing report: Critical gaps exposed in food crisis funding
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - The 2024 Financing Flows and Food Crises report from the Global Network Against Food Crises – which includes the UN Food [...] Full text...
Can Angola, the second largest oil producer in Sub-Saharan Africa, transform itself from a food insecure country to a regional food hub? World Bank Blog By Izabela Leao and Nelson Eduardo
AR Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Walking around Luanda, the capital of Angola, it's easy to marvel at the large, modern buildings, but also to wonder why [...] Full text...
Paper and wood see 12 per cent fall in demand because of digital media
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - Global trade in wood and paper products has dropped steeply due to the rise of digital media, the UN Food and [...] Full text...
EU Council approves farmer-focused common agricultural policy:
AR Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Council on Monday unanimously approved a set of conclusions on a farmer-focused post-2027 common agricultural policy (CAP), towards a [...] Full text...
Unlocking the development potential of economic corridors: Lobito Corridor and its impact on local communities: World Bank Blog By Juan Carlos, Alvarez Mila Malavoloneque and Sunita Varada
AR Luanda, Angola (PANA) - A multi-sectoral team from the World Bank was on tracks of the Benguela railway and visited the Lobito Corridor. Development does [...] Full text...
AfDB approves €24 million loan to Côte d'Ivoire to improve fisheries and aquaculture sectors
MA Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a loan of €24.63 million to Côte [...] Full text...
Unhealthy eating drives $8 trillion in annual hidden costs
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - Most of the hidden costs of agrifood systems worldwide stem from health impacts linked to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart [...] Full text...
US, Zambia sign agreement to catalyse growth in agricultural sector
MA Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States has welcomed the signing of $491 million project with the Government of Zambia to deliver sustainable and [...] Full text...
South Africa market opens for United States soybeans
AR Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - Soybeans from the United States are once again eligible to enter South Africa following a sharp drop in local soybean [...] Full text...
Italy donates agricultural machinery to municipalities in southern Libya
MTA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The southern Libyan municipalities of Sebha, Morzouk and Oubari have received modern agricultural equipment designed to support and strengthen their agricultural [...] Full text...
In plain view: Solutions to turbocharge the agrifood system transition: World Bank Blog By Sergiy Zorya, Joshua Gill, Alexandra Horst and Francis Addeah Darko
AR Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Momentum is growing for real food systems change at a scale never seen before. Last year at the UN [...] Full text...
Expensive farm inputs, insecurity in producing regions, high transport costs impact grain yields in Nigeria
AR Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Imports of wheat, rice, and maize marketing in year 2024/25 are estimated to increase as the Nigerian economy stabilises, inflation decreases, [...] Full text...
South African Minister hails export of avocados to Japan
CU Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Ronald Lamola, is attending the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Ministerial Meeting [...] Full text...
Egypt’s cane sugar production drops
AR Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt’s sugar production in marketing year 2024/25 (October to September) is forecast to reach 2.6 million metric tons, down 110,000 tons [...] Full text...
US Department of Agriculture announces trade mission to Morocco
AR Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis M. Taylor will lead an agribusiness [...] Full text...
South Africa sets wheat import duties while local wheat area drops
AR Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - Falling global wheat prices triggered, in July 2024, a wheat import duty of Rand 176.30 (US$ 9.70) per metric ton [...] Full text...
Global food price index broadly unchanged in July
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - Global food commodity benchmarks remained largely unchanged in July, with rises in vegetable oils, meat and sugar offsetting decreases in cereals, [...] Full text...
Strong regional demand to drive South Africa’s maize exports to neighbours
AR Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) South Africa’s maize area is forecast to expand in marketing year 2024/25 after an 18 percent drop in the maize crop [...] Full text...
Forests face increasing risk of wildfires and pests due to climate change
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Mozambican farmers get $2 million fertilizer financing boost
VAO Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - With the planting season fast approaching, Mozambican farmers are busy preparing their fields. Fertilizer is crucial for a successful harvest, and many [...] Full text...
AfDB grants DRC $260 million loan to strengthen agricultural sector
VAO Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a loan of $260.4 million to the DR [...] Full text...
Preventing deforestation while leveraging trade for development: World Bank Blog By Chris Wellisz
AR Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Developing countries must contend with a plethora of trade-related regulations as well as voluntary standards to meet market demands [...] Full text...
AfDB chief warns Nigeria’s food import policy could destroy its agriculture
VAO Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has said the decision by the Nigerian government to [...] Full text...
New report warns of climate’s effects on fish biomass
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - A new report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warns that climate change could seriously impact fish stocks in [...] Full text...
Empowering small emerging commercial farmers: Mozambique success story – World Bank Blog By Blessings Botha
AR Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Having seen so many smallholder farmers trapped in low agricultural productivity in Mozambique, I had always wondered what models could help [...] Full text...
Favourable prices offered by local processors divert South Africa’s orange growers from export market
AR Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - Record orange juice prices in South Africa are expected to escalate orange juice production as growers increase deliveries for processing, [...] Full text...
Climate-smart focus in livestock sector can help Tanzania increase production, generate jobs
AR Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania can significantly boost its livestock sector's economic contribution with a bold and comprehensive plan that emphasises climate-smart strategies [...] Full text...
Easing Guinea’s food insecurity: IMF’s Food Shock Window By Pilar Garcia Martinez, Joseph Ntamatungiro, and Neree Noumon
AR Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - IMF emergency financing has supported Guinea’s efforts to cope with the effects of macroeconomic shocks, underpinned by the authorities’ commitment to [...] Full text...
Tanzania’s coffee farms rehabilitation raises output
AR Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania’s coffee production in the marketing year 2024/25 is forecast at 1.5 million bags of 60kg, up from 1.4 [...] Full text...
Libya. FAO discuss activation of agricultural projects
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Deputy Minister for Economic Affair in the Government of National Unity, Saad Al-Hanich, chaired a meeting attended by a delegation [...] Full text...
AfDB, Ethiopia launch $94 million project to boost Climate Resilient Wheat
VAO Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and the government of Ethiopia, in partnership with the Netherlands, fertilizer company OCP-Africa, and [...] Full text...
AfDB approves $8.6 million grant to boost non-oil revenue mobilisation in South Sudan
VAO Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) is providing additional financial support to enable South Sudan to increase its non-oil revenue mobilisation. [...] Full text...
Africa fertilizer financing Mechanism to launch fertilizer financing scheme in Mozambique
VAO Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism will launch the Fertilizer Financing for Sustainable Agriculture Management Project on Friday, designed to boost access [...] Full text...
World Bank approves $150 million for food security project in Benin
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The World Bank has approved additional financing of $150 million for Benin to help the country improve food security and productivity, [...] Full text...
Burkina Faso expects 595,000 tonnes of seed cotton for this year's agricultural campaign
BBA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Forecasts for the 2024/2025 cotton season for conventional seed cotton are estimated at 700,000 hectares, with expected production of 595,000 [...] Full text...
Greece to bring in 5,000 Egyptian seasonal farm workers
BBA Athens, Greece (PANA) - The Greek Minister for Migration, Dimitris Kairidis, recently discussed with his Egyptian counterpart, Saha Jundi, in Cairo, ways and means of [...] Full text...