Fast food franchises operating in Kenya have been slapped with a 30 percent duty on imports of potatoes used to make French fries, a move that will significantly raise the cost of the end product. Major fast-food joints rely on imports from as far as Egypt and South Africa for the potatoes they use as most that are grown locally do not meet required standards.
Morocco has decided to increase wheat import duties on common and durum wheat to protect domestic producers from foreign competition, according to a Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
In an official statement, the SFDA said the ban could come into effect “due to the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza,” adding that the decision was made after reviewing the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) registration report. New cases of avian influenza in these three regions.
The UK has agreed its annual catch limits for the fishing industry with the EU, in a deal which the government said was worth £333m. UK fisherman will be able to catch around 160,000 tonnes of fish in 2021, up 26,000 tonnes on 2020’s allocation.
The World Bank has donated $116 million to South Sudan to fund two new projects aimed at strengthening the capacity of farmers to improve agricultural production, and restore livelihoods and food security.
Farmer owned dairy co-operative Arla Foods will build a state-of-the-art commercial dairy farm in Northern Nigeria where it will also train and support up to 1,000 local dairy farmers as part of its long-term commitment to public-private partnerships that support the development of the Nigerian dairy sector.
Bengaluru The government of India and Karnataka on Wednesday jointly inaugurated three centres of excellence (CoE) in the southern state under the Indo-Israel Agricultural Project (IIAP), a statement from the chief minister’s office (CMO) said.
In order to boost the professional capacities, incomes and access to finance of thousands of Ivorian women smallholder farmers in the staple food sector, IFC and the African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative announced today a new partnership program.
Red Sea Farms, a Saudi Arabian start-up that has developed a solution to use salt water for irrigation in agriculture, is proud to have received one of the largest investments in the sector: $10 million in venture capital! This is a great opportunity to assert its place in the territory and increase its growth for a greener economy.
Zimbabwe is the first African country to see the rollout of E-Livestock Global’s traceability system powered by Mastercard’s Blockchain-based Provenance solution, bringing end-to-end visibility to the cattle supply chain. Innovative solution brings new hope for farmers while helping Zimbabwe regain its lucrative beef export market to support economic recovery
Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat and Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Elsayed Elkosayer have held a meeting to review the implementation of joint projects between the two ministries.
Israeli agriculture company SupPlant, a developer of sensorless irrigation technology, announced that it raised $10 million in a funding round co-led by Boresight Capital, Menomadin Foundation, Smart-Agro Fund and Mivtah Shamir.
The Government of Kenya, through the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries recently hosted a national dialogue with stakeholders in partnership with Microsoft. The theme of the dialogue was Agriculture Data and Digitization Transformation: Considerations in Policy and Implementation Frameworks.
Africa’s vaccine manufacturing potential has always been overlooked, but COVID-19 warranted a closer look at internal capability development. Is this the beginning of something bigger?
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