Namibia - Food Security

ZIMBABWE: One million need food assistance

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IRIN

Published on 26th November 2011 07:49 AM

HARARE, 23 November 2011 (IRIN) - After a thin harvest, Rudo Mangwere, 32, a farmer in Chirumhanzu district, some 200km southwest of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, has resorted to selling wild honey by the roadside to beat hunger. She is one of just over a million rural Zimbabweans who will ...

SOUTH AFRICA: Guinea rice project reaps rewards

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BuaNews

Published on 20th July 2011 05:52 PM

Pretoria - The R45 million three-year project to help create food security in poverty-stricken Guinea in West Africa is showing positive results.

The project, which was started in 2008 between South Africa, Guinea and Vietnam, is part of a strategy to stabilise poor African countries and is intended ...

CONGO-SOUTH AFRICA: Land deals raise food security hopes

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IRIN

Published on 8th June 2011 05:40 PM

BRAZZAVILLE, 8 June 2011 (IRIN) - By handing over 80,000 hectares of untilled land to a few dozen South African farmers, authorities in the Republic of Congo are confident they will greatly improve domestic agricultural expertise and reduce the country's chronic dependence on food imports.

Hardly hi-tech... but the hope is investors will improve farming methods by introducing mechanisation. Photo: Laudes Mbon/IRIN ...

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Risk of food insecurity in wake of floods

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IRIN

Published on 11th February 2011 11:16 PM

JOHANNESBURG, 10 February 2011 (IRIN) - Above average rainfall across many parts of Southern Africa is prompting concern "about the food security of the affected population in the poorer parts of the sub-region over the coming months," the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a new report.

"With the rainy season still only halfway through, and with the cyclone season [in the Indian Ocean] due to peak in February, several agricultural areas along the rivers in southern ...

NAMIBIA: When we have food, we are rich

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IRIN

Published on 7th February 2011 08:17 PM

JOHANNESBURG, 7 February 2011 (IRIN) - In the deep north of Southern Africa’s driest country, Namibia, about 10km from the Angolan border, live an elderly farming couple and their 10 adopted children, who watch the sky every day for rain. If the heavens do not open in another three weeks, they will not have enough food this year.

Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN - Evard Haukongo with a millet plant in the test patch where he used conservation agriculture techniques

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FOOD: Is there a crisis?

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IRIN

Published on 22nd January 2011 06:45 PM

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JOHANNESBURG, 21 January 2011 (IRIN) - 2010 ended with food prices at their highest since 2008, when the world was in the grip of a crisis sparked by very expensive staple grains. It led to riots in some countries, toppled at least one government and drove more than a billion people to hunger.

IRIN among other questions had then asked if the jump in cereal prices had been foreseen, and if anything could be done to turn the situation around; here we examine the 2010 spike.

Photo: Guy Oliver/IRIN - Many developing countries have had ...

In Brief: Starved for Attention

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Published on 6th June 2010 09:02 PM

JOHANNESBURG, 4 June 2010 (IRIN) - Don't wait for severely malnourished children to turn up at therapeutic feeding centres in a developing country, rather prevent this by providing them with nutritious food aid, international ...

World’s Most Diverse Collection of Crop Diversity Achieved

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Mie1

Published on 17th March 2010 07:54 AM

Days after celebrating its second anniversary, the Svalbard “Doomsday” Global Seed Vault has received thousands of new seeds that will push its collection ...

Africa still hungry despite annual $3 billion of aid and $33 billion of food imports

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Mie1

Published on 12th March 2010 07:14 AM

One in three Africans is chronically hungry, despite $3 billion spent on food aid for the continent annually and $33 billion in food imports, the director ...

Biotechnology is Key to Food Security in Africa

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Mie1

Published on 3rd March 2010 05:36 AM

African Scientists Call for Food Security

Africa missed on the “Green Revolution” that drove Asia; the West and the larger America out ...

Cultivating Food Security in Africa

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Mie1

Published on 21st February 2010 09:39 AM

As hunger and drought spread across Africa, a huge effort is underway to increase yields of staple crops, such as maize, wheat, cassava, and rice. ...

Wild bean research project to boost nutrition

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Mie1

Published on 27th January 2010 07:24 AM

A University of Namibia project to domesticate a nutritious wild bean to save it from extinction, improve people's nutrition and reduce poverty has received ...

Food Security

ZIMBABWE: One million need food assistance

SOUTH AFRICA: Guinea rice project reaps rewards

CONGO-SOUTH AFRICA: Land deals raise food security hopes

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Risk of food insecurity in wake of floods

NAMIBIA: When we have food, we are rich

FOOD: Is there a crisis?

In Brief: Starved for Attention

World’s Most Diverse Collection of Crop Diversity Achieved

Africa still hungry despite annual $3 billion of aid and $33 billion of food imports

Biotechnology is Key to Food Security in Africa

Cultivating Food Security in Africa

Wild bean research project to boost nutrition

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