US Halts Brazil Beef Imports, Citing Food Safety Concerns
The United States announced on Thursday a halt to all imports of fresh beef from Brazil, the world's second-largest producer, ...
Tag: Food politics
Ghana To Pass National Food Donors Encouragement Bill
Chairman for Parliamentary select committee on Food, agriculture and Member of Parliament for Berekum West, Hon. Kwaku Agyenim-Boateng has lauded ...
Government Institutions To Mandatorily Buy Local Foodstuff
The government has directed all schools, hospitals and other state institutions to mandatorily buy foodstuff from local farmers. They can ...
FAO, WAHO Sign Agreement To Support Health Development
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations and the West Africa Health Organisation (WAHO) have signed a ...
Poor Packaging Affects Competitiveness In Sub-Sahara Africa
Poor packaging in Ghana is one of the main reasons for the failure of locally manufactured food products to establish ...
Ghana To Benefit From National Food Packaging Centre
Ghana is to benefit from a National Food Packaging Centre being proposed by the ‘Improving Food Packaging for Small Medium ...
More Than 100 Million People To Face Severe Food Insecurity
Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people in the world were severely food insecure in 2016. ...
NGO Embarks On Campaign To Promote Cultivation, Consumption of Local Crops
The Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD) has embarked on a campaign to promote the cultivation and consumption ...
Mideast Conflicts Leave Millions Unsure of Next Meal
The devastating conflicts gripping the Middle East and North Africa have left 30 million people unsure of their next meal, ...
UN Releases $22 Million To Fight Famine Threat In Somalia
The United Nations has approved an emergency loan of $22 million (20.3 million euros) in a bid to prevent another ...
Food Prices Soar In Drought-Hit Countries
Drought in East Africa has led to a sharp increase in the price of staple foods, raising fears that hunger ...
Former President Determine To Eliminate Hunger
The John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation has launched the “Ghana Zero Hunger” Strategic Review to identify the gaps in achieving the ...
NORDESO Implements 5-Year Advocacy Project In Northern Region
The Northern Development Society (NORDESO), has begun a five-year advocacy project dubbed: “Voice for Change (V4C)” in the Yendi Municipality ...
Grameen Ghana Sensitizes Stakeholders On Food Security, Nutrition
Grameen Ghana, has interacted with stakeholders in some selected communities in the Nanumba North district of the Northern Region, at ...
A Ghanaian Chef Works Against Waste To Feed the Hungry
Excess and waste are usually considered symptomatic of the affluent West but trained chef Elijah Amoo Addo knows these are ...
Food Insecurity To Hit Ghana If…
Rural women in Ghana say despite their key role in the agricultural sector, they have been sidelined in the implantation ...
Food Insecurity To Hit Ghana If… Women In Farming Warn
Rural women in Ghana say despite their key role in the agricultural sector, they have been sidelined in the implantation ...
1.3 Million Kenyans In 23 Counties Are In Need of Food Aid
1.3 million Kenyans in 23 counties are in need of food aid - Report Despite the progress Kenya has made ...
SDG To End Hunger By 2030 Unfeasible – Global Hunger Index
The global community is not on course to end hunger by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) deadline of ...
Sustainable Rice Systems Development In Sub-Saharan Africa Project Underway
Ten countries (Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, the United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda) met in ...