Road to Kampala 2025: Why ECONSA plans preparatory meeting - NaijaAgroNet

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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Non-State Actors (ECONSA) has given reasons for its preparatory meeting slated on Friday, January 3, 2025, reports NaijaAgroNet.

The meeting, NaijaAgroNet gathered will be in readiness for the Extraordinary Summit on the Post Malabo Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) mid-January in Kampala, Uganda.

A missed opportunity: why COP29’s broken promises will leave billions behind - NaijaAgroNet

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As the dust settles after COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, IIED’s executive director Tom Mitchell reflects on a ‘squandered opportunity’ to address the climate emergency and calls for reform of the COP process, to ensure adaptation and loss and damage finance reach those who most need it.COP29 in Baku will be remembered as a squandered opportunity to turn promises of climate action into reality. Despite being framed as the 'Finance COP', the outcomes reveal a deepening chasm between rhetoric and action.

The failure of wealthier nations to provide meaningful adaptation finance or pathways to resilience for the most climate-vulnerable countries is devastating, especially when action on emissions has fallen short and the price tag of dealing with the impacts is rising steeply.

Biodiversity and climate action @Colombian Pacific: The Green businesses - NaijaAgroNet

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It’s the crack of dawn. Magnolia Ordoñez leaves in a small boat along with her husband - the captain- and her colleagues— all women. Their task: to find and collect pianguas, a type of saltwater clam, that lives buried within the roots of mangrove trees in the Pacific region of Colombia.

Reaching the pianguas is no easy endeavour. They must find the right place to anchor, always a different spot from their last harvest, to ensure sustainability. Magnolia then jumps overboard, climbs a wall of mud and walks as far as possible into the mangrove forest, jumping and weaving through long roots. She lights incense to ward off mosquitoes and takes a moment to sing to the mangroves, thanking them for the food they provide. Then, she wades through the mud, sometimes reaching above her knees, to carefully dig up the clams. With each piangua she unearths, she checks its size and takes only the mature ones. This labour-intensive process is a race against the rising tide.

MMS: What CS-SUNN told Lagos media - NaijaAgroNet

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BEING A PRESS STATEMENT DURING A MEDIA ENGAGEMENT FOR IMPROVED REPORTAGE ON THE UPTAKE OF MULTIPLE MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTS (MMS) FOR ANAEMIA PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN NIGERIA HELD IN LAGOS STATE ON 26TH NOVEMBER 2024

I warmly welcome you to this media engagement, as we convene with a unified goal; to address the urgent and escalating challenge of maternal and child malnutrition, focusing particularly on anaemia; a preventable, yet prevalent cause of maternal and child mortality.

WFD 2024: Makinde reveals 'what we're doing to boost food security' - NaijaAgroNet

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The Oyo State Governor, 'Seyi Makinde, has declared that his government will not relent in its effort to boost food security and safe functioning of the food supply chain in the state.

He maintained that the government has taken several steps to promote agriculture and ensure food security in the state, including providing support to thousands of smallholder farmers and farmers' associations.

Oil & Gas flaring: NOSDRA, SDN partnership to enhance environmental stewardship - NaijaAgroNet

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The National Oil Spill Detection Response Agency (NOSDRA) and Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN), a non-governmental organization with its headquarters in the United Kingdom have expressed their firm commitment to consolidate on the gains of their ongoing partnership in the interest of clean and sustainable environmental management in Nigeria’s petroleum industry.

This assurance was given on Wednesday when the Executive Director of SDN, Adam Heal, and his team paid a courtesy visit to the Director-General/Chief Executive of NOSDRA, Engr. Chukwuemeka Woke, in the agency’s headquarters in Abuja.

FAO hosts global conference on animal health innovation, reference centres - NaijaAgroNet

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Monday, opened its first-ever Global Conference on Animal Health Innovation, Reference Centres and Vaccines, aimed at tackling animal diseases costing the world hundreds of billions of dollars annually and posing a threat to human health, global food security and livelihoods.

“The productivity and resilience of livestock systems worldwide are threatened by infectious diseases, emerging pathogens, endemic disease burdens, and climate change,” FAO Chief Scientist ad interim Beth Crawford said in opening remarks. Addressing these challenges calls for “a united effort, leveraging our collective expertise and resources,” she said.

Protecting family farming in Guinea: A successful advocacy journey - NaijaAgroNet

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Guinea recently adopted the country’s first agricultural policy law, which now needs to be implemented. This follows four years of consultation and advocacy, during which Guinean civil society has actively engaged with the government in the drafting of that law. Aïssata Yattara and Macky Bah reflect on how the law’s inclusion of grassroots’ and national stakeholders’ key concerns represents a decisive step towards protecting and promoting family farms, and tackling land grabbing in the country.

The Guinean government tends to favour large-scale intensive agriculture. This means opening up the agricultural sector to foreign capital, often to the detriment of family farming, which supports nearly 70% of the population and supplies two-thirds of local markets to meet food needs.

Africa to benefit from Denmark backed 'EW4All for Africa' - NaijaAgroNet

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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said that Africa would benefit from the Early Warnings for All Initiative (EW4All) project by Denmark, reports NaijaAgroNet.

WMO also revealed that EW4All has a bold vision of a world in which every individual is protected by life-saving Early Warning Systems (EWS) by 2027.

Seeking to work more coherently across the full EWS value chain, the EW4ALL initiative is led by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), each leading one of the four pillars, relevant to their mandated expertise.

Rotary club commissions borehole @Oremeji-Oshodi - NaijaAgroNet

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The Rotary Club of Ikeja has commissioned a borehole at the Oremeji community Adeyemi-Arowojobe Community Development Association (AACDA)(AACDA) in Oshodi-Lagos State, reports NaijaAgroNet.

Rotary International comprises members imbibed with the spirit of humanitarianism are giving freely their talent, their treasure and their time to the needy in the society. This project has alleviated the pains of the masses by the President of the District who attracted the project to the residents having seen what his residents go through in trying to buy water from shylock water sellers.