Nuclear technology to help fight seafood fraud
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - Across the globe, consumers and small-scale fishers alike are facing a growing challenge: seafood fraud.From mislabeled fish to hidden additives, deceptive [...] Full text...
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Agriculture
Global food prices rise in July, driven by meat and vegetable oils
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - Global food prices rose 1.6 percent in July, driven mainly by higher meat and vegetable oil prices, the Food and Agriculture [...] Full text...
Culinary diplomacy strengthens US-Ghana commercial ties
AR Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The US Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC) is collaborating on the seventh biannual poultry training programme and cooking competition in [...] Full text...
IFAD supports growth of aquaculture in Tanzania
AR Dodoma, Tanzania (PANA) - Fisheries and aquaculture are a vital source of food for billions of people and play a significant role in many rural [...] Full text...
South Africa's macadamia industry grows despite export uncertainty
AR Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) – Yields of macadamia nuts in South Africa, the world’s leading producer and exporter of the crop, will this year decline [...] Full text...
Deputy UN chief urges bold action to transform food systems at global summit in Addis Ababa
MA Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on Tuesday called on countries to double down on efforts to transform food systems, [...] Full text...
‘Perfect storm’ of global crises drove years of food price surges: FAO
MA New York, US (PANA) - The chief economist of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Máximo Torero Cullen, previewed its annual State of Food Security [...] Full text...
Global demand for meat and dairy set to rise, but climate and nutrition gaps remain
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - Global demand for meat, dairy and fish is projected to climb steadily over the next decade, driven by rising incomes and [...] Full text...
Libya and Saudi Arabia discuss joint agricultural investment opportunities
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Secretary General of the Libyan Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Mohamed Al-Turki, on Saturday discussed with a Saudi delegation [...] Full text...
‘A spirit of oneness’: Cooperatives cultivating peace in South Sudan
MA Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Within one year, a maize and sorghum cooperative of 20 members in the Central Equatorial State of South Sudan had [...] Full text...
Landless and locked out: Young farmers struggle for a future
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - Agricultural land is more than just a resource to produce food – for many older adults around the world, a land [...] Full text...
Subsidised prices encourage Senegalese farmers to increase peanuts
AR Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal’s subsidised prices for seeds and fertilisers are expected to motivate farmers to plant more peanut and during crop marketing year [...] Full text...
Most vulnerable nations call on FAO to develop strategy and action plan to transform agrifood systems
AR Rome, Italy (PANA) - Small Developing States (SIDS), Least Developing Countries (LDCs) and Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCS) have adopted a ministerial statement which calls on [...] Full text...
Investments in aquaculture could create more than 20 million jobs by 2050
AR Entebbe, Uganda (PANA) – Aquaculture could generate as many as 22 million jobs by 2050, according to a new report that foresees a $1.5 trillion [...] Full text...
Africa's industrialisation through agricultural revolution shows mixed signals, says AU Commissioner
AO Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) – The industrialisation of Africa, through an agricultural revolution, premised on increased investment in agricultural productivity, has shown mixed signals decades later, [...] Full text...
IFAD invested more than $3 billion in new projects in three years
BBA Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) invested $3.3 billion in new projects at the end of its three-year funding cycle, [...] Full text...
Improved local production of maize in Zimbabwe expected to up human consumption by 6 percent in 2025/26
AR Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Following the challenging maize crop in the 2024/25 marketing year due to severe drought conditions, Zimbabwe's maize production is projected to [...] Full text...
Outlook for food trade ‘relatively optimistic’, FAO says
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has released their annual Food Outlook report which provides a “relatively optimistic” look at [...] Full text...
Gaza war leaves less than 5% of agricultural land usable, says FAO
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - Less than 5 percent of Gaza's agricultural land is now cultivable and/or accessible, further exacerbating the risk of famine in the [...] Full text...
Tanzanian farmers clear more land to expand coffee plantations
AR Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania's coffee sector is poised for expansion, with cultivated areas projected to grow from 265,000 hectares (HA) in marketing [...] Full text...
South African minister hails latest export of avacados to China
CU Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen on Wednesday conveyed his deep satisfaction with the country's avocado industry's active pursuit [...] Full text...
Plant pests continue to threaten global food supplies
MA Rome, Italy (PANA) - Protecting crops from pests is key to ensuring everyone has enough to eat, said the head of the UN Food and [...] Full text...
Favourable weather fuels desert locust surge in North Africa - FAO
MA New York, US (PANA) - Unusually high levels of desert locust infestations have been reported during the current breeding season, raising alarms across affected regions, [...] Full text...
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...
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...