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Tanzania fishing industry earns 10% of national foreign exchange.  FAO conducting sustainable fishing initiative in Tanzania. More than 4 million…

The Malabo Declaration deadline has expired with only a handful of African countries on track. Of 51 AU member states,…

Addressing the pressing issues of chronic hunger FAO’s blueprint is projected to impact 600 million people by 2030. According to…

Eastern Africa and Western Africa account for 70 per cent of Africa’s population unable to afford a healthy diet. About…

Fresh financing will bolster Ethiopia’s progress in achieving wheat self-sufficiency. Data shows Ethiopia’s wheat productivity has struggled to match the…

The FAO Food Price Index averaged at 127.2 points in April 2023, up 0.6 percent from March. According to FAO,…

Meanwhile, Africa is looking to take pre-emptive action to avert the inevitable food crisis.

The United States has pledged support to help the continent grow and distribute more food. The aid will come through the African Development Bank (AfDB). The Bank is looking to fund a significant increase in food production in an effort to ward off the food crisis wrought by the Russia-Ukraine war.

In May this year, the AfDB set up a US$1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production Facility. It was established with the aim of supporting some 20 million smallholder farmers produce more food and to do so more sustainably.

Tanzania is building irrigation schemes for rice production and encourages efficient use of fertilizers via its 10-year National Rice Development Strategy Phase II (NRDS-II).  “The NRDS-II purpose is to double the area under rice cultivation from 1.1 to 2.2 million hectares from 2018 to 2030, double on-farm rice productivity from two t/ha to four t/ha by 2030, and reduce post-harvest loss from 30 per cent to 10 per cent by 2030,” according to ITA.

The exportation of goods is a numbers game. Numbers give a unique perspective on the trend of agro-product exportation across potential and competitive markets in the region and abroad.

ITA shows that the exportation of corn has faced setbacks in the financial year 2021/2022 as forecasted to decrease by 20 per cent, equivalent to 80 million metric tonnes, due to the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting supply chains. The decrease is attributed to reports of truck drivers’ screenings, lockdowns and curfews in neighbouring countries.

Agriculture is contributes 23 percent of African GDP, Mckinsey 2019 At least 43.8 percent of people are employed in the…

Kenya’s Ministry of Devolution together with the Food and Agriculture Organization say the country requires at least US$87 million to…