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Showing posts with label Food Production. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food Production. Show all posts
Monday, September 10, 2012

ECOWAS partner UNDP to boost food production

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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have partnered in a scheme to...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

UN calls for urgent actions against food price hike

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The United Nations (UN) agencies have called for swift and coordinated international actions in a bid to maintain stable prices for...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

Capacity trends in Nigeria’s agro value chain

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Ordinarily, a value chain depicts a chain of activities for a firm operating in a particular industry, like agriculture. Typically, th...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Global food prices drop by four per cent in May

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A woman removing straw from rice with a broom in  Kamangu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The global food prices have dropped sharpl...

Nigeria: Expert attributes food price hike to Boko Haram insurgence

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Market women selling farm produce The Technical Adviser to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Ades...
Friday, June 8, 2012

Nigeria, five others benefit from Gates’ largesse

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    Farmers from six African countries, including Nigeria, are to benefit from the largesse of the second phase of the Commercial Prod...
Saturday, June 2, 2012

AATF enters deal with Japan Tobacco on rice varieties

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In order to develop varieties of rice in sub-Saharan Africa, the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) has signed a licen...
Friday, June 1, 2012

N1.59trn on wheat imports, unacceptable – Jonathan

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Nigeria women processing cassava Nigeria President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has expressed federal government’s unacceptability ove...