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GIVEN JAMAICA’S many offerings to the world – from endemic plant and animal species to awe-inspiring sportswomen and men, celebrated academics and accomplished statesmen – the island has the reputation of being ‘likkle but tallawah’. The same can...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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Africa's Post-Pandemic Future Needs to Embrace Youth in Agriculture

Analysis - Warnings at the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic that Africa could be hit by a wave of up to 10 million cases within six months thankfully now seem unfounded, although it is still far too early to be over-confident.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Angola: Stopping COVID-19 From Reaching Family Farmers in Angola

Angola's Institute of Agrarian Development (IDA) is a key partner in the information campaign, including IDA agricultural extension workers who are reaching farmers in their fields and

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Source: allAfrica.com

World Bank lends Kenya Sh4.5bn for locusts fight

World Bank lends Kenya Sh4.5bn for locusts fight

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Source: Business Daily

Morocco: Reimaging Its Economic Model - Can Morocco Shift to Better Outcomes?

This has led to a series of initiatives, building on past successes and decisions, that have the potential for remaking what Morocco does best, tourism and agriculture, and leading the way to upgrading and expanding its services and manufacturing

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Source: allAfrica.com

L.A. Public Officials Acknowledge the Inequality of Resources within Underserved Communities Escalated After COVID-19

L.A. Public Officials Acknowledge the Inequality of Resources within Underserved Communities Escalated After COVID-19

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PPS families to receive SNAP benefits in response to COVID-1

All Pittsburgh Public Schools families will receive Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT) supplemental funds for lunches missed while being out of school due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Pittsburgh Courier has

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

State lines up 125,000 more water pans for Machakos

State lines up 125,000 more water pans for Machakos

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Source: Business Daily

Africa: The Nile - Stormy Waters

[Africa In Fact] The dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Renaissance Dam offers a unique chance to create a regional authority benefiting all 12 countries reliant on the river

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Source: allAfrica.com

Mali: As Mali Fights Coronavirus, Cotton Farmers Fear Loss of Climate Aid

Bamako — As cotton price tumbles during pandemic, farmers worry the state support they rely on to grow food in a warming climate will dry up

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Source: allAfrica.com

PepsiCo's Commitment to Fighting Childhood Hunger while Supporting Women-led Small Businesses. | Chicago Defender

PepsiCo has initiated a new effort to fight childhood hunger while supporting women-led small businesses. The initiative is a joint effort between Food for Good, PepsiCo's commitment to advance food security through collaboration in communities where we live and work, and WomanMade, a PepsiCo

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Source: Chicago Defender

Earth Today | ‘Join the WAVE’ - Natural History Museum makes World Wetlands Day 2021 a virtual affair

THE NATURAL History Museum of Jamaica (NHMJ) is making the celebration of World Wetlands Day 2021 a month-long, virtual affair and with the focus on‘wetlands and water. With their local subtheme ‘Join the WAVE (Wetlands Awareness...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

USAid unveils US$130m Zim food aid package

The United States Agency for International Development (USAid) yesterday announced two new food security programmes for Zimbabwe, Takunda and Amalima Loko, that will benefit about half a million people in the country’s dry regions. BY SHARON SIBINDI The programmes will be funded to the tune of

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Libya: Conflict and the COVID-19 Pandemic Present a Significant Threat to Life in Libya

In March 2020, humanitarian partners reported a total of 851 access constraints on movement of humanitarian personnel and humanitarian items within and into

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Source: allAfrica.com

Kenya targets to create 1.7m jobs, jumpstart growth

With an economy battered by coronavirus, locust invasion and floods, Kenya’s Finance Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani on June 11 tabled a Ksh2.79 trillion ($27.9 billion) budget for the 2020/2021 fiscal year that seeks to revive almost every sector of the economy as quickly as possible and still keep

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Source: The East African

Alert over renewed desert locust swarms heading into West Africa

Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture has warned that desert locusts remain a threat in three counties as the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) cautions that the swarms could soon find their way to West

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Source: The East African

If SA has to choose between NHI and food security, it must 'choose the latter' | Fin24

The South African Child Gauge 2020 report on child nutrition shows that the level of child stunting in SA is still where it was in 1999. Constantly rising food prices are part of the problem.

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Colombia ranks among the top five nations with the greatest diversity of plant and animal species in the world; more different kinds of birds and amphibians make their home here than in any other place on the

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Earth Today| IOJ brings curtains down on World Wetlands Day celebrations

THE NATURAL History Museum of Jamaica has closed its month of celebrations on building awareness of the wetlands with the premiering of the extended version of ‘A Virtual Tour of the Mason River Protected Area’. Over the four weeks in February,...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Earth Today | AF climate projects continue amid COVID-19

FROM HONDURAS to Uzbekistan, the Adaptation Fund is helping countries build resilience to environmental, health and economic challenges, even as COVID-19 remains a public health challenge. “In Honduras, an Adaptation Fund (AF) project, funded by AF...

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Growth & Jobs | St Thomas farmers to access 400 acres of sugar lands

More than 400 acres of former sugar cane lands in St Thomas will be made available to small farmers in the parish for the growing of cash crops. “We are looking to move certain lands from sugar cane into crash crops. The small farmers … who are...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Africa: COVID-19 - Additional 23 Million People Face Acute Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa - Ifad

This was disclosed in a report published Friday by the World Economic Forum (WEF) titled, What's needed to protect food security in Africa during

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Source: allAfrica.com

Nigeria: Buhari Has Performed Creditably, Says Presidency

Abuja — The presidency thursday gave the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari a positive rating, five years after it came into

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Source: allAfrica.com

Six months of the Solidarity Fund: How is it doing? | News24

The Solidarity Fund in just six months, raised R3.1 billion and so far disbursed nearly R1.3 billion.

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How this Sierra Leonean immigrant in Germany turned his beekeeping hobby into a flourishing business - Face2Face Africa

If there is a positive side to the COVID-19 era, it would be how it has brought out the creativity and the entrepreneurial ingenuity of many people across the globe during the lockdown. The era has seen many people turn their side hustles and hobbies into flourishing businesses. Christopher

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Africa: WHO Regional Director for Africa Pays Tribute to African Leaders On COVID-19 Fight

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Director for Africa, has paid tribute to African leaders for the progress they have made in their fight against COVID-19

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Source: allAfrica.com

Uganda's $12b Budget Offers Tax Waivers, Credit Access to SMEs

In a bid to get the Ugandan economy moving again after nearly three months of lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, the government on June 11 presented a budget offering a host of tax waivers and funding for the business

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: The Critical Role of Women in Avoiding a COVID-19 "Food Pandemic" in Sub-Saharan Africa

But averting what some experts believe could be a food crisis of immense proportions requires paying close attention to an often overlooked feature of food security in the region: African women play a large and growing role in all aspects of the region's food systems--whether it's growing crops and

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: Migration Is a Safety Net During Climate Change Disasters

Climate threats are currently high across much of Africa, with floods, droughts and the biggest locust outbreak in

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Source: allAfrica.com

Ghana: Gasip Honours 59 Farmers in UER

Bolgatanga — The Upper East Regional Director of Agriculture, Mr Francis Ennor, has assured farmers in the region that the Ministry of Food and Agriculture will not withdraw its interventions to them in this farming season as a result of the coronavirus

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Source: allAfrica.com

Uganda: Scientists Recommend Govt to Extend COVID-19 Lockdown

A new study by scientists at Makerere University College of Natural Sciences has recommended that government extends the Covid-19 lockdown up to

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