Africa news archive – Page 101
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ArticleMatch-funding for projects to boost African imports
Food sector firms that can come up with with smart ways to increase imports of African food to Europe are being offered match-funding grants of between £150,000 and £1 million to try their ideas.
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ArticleBama marks 125 years with donation
Contributions to Red Cross campaign for drought-riven east Africa also made by those attending special anniversary event
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ArticleSri Lanka invests in Rwanda horticulture
A Sri-Lankan plant science company has been contracted to develop fruit varieties for production in Rwanda, Africa
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ArticleContainer fleet increases 10 per cent
Alphaliner reveals 10 per cent year-on-year growth in global container fleet to 14.95m TEU
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Kenya to be WFVExpo partner country
The World Fruit & Vegetable Expo (WFVExpo) has announced that Kenya will be the Country of Honour at this year's exhibition, which takes place in London on 16-17 November 2011.
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ArticleBlue Skies gets sustainability crown
The UK supplier has been honoured for its contribution to development in Africa and South America
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ArticleCompagnie Fruitière launches promotion
A new marketing drive is being planned by the French group to highlight the quality of its exotic range from Africa
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ArticleAgroecology the way forward
According to the UN's Special Rapporteur on the right to food, conventional farming is no longer the best option
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ArticleCirad begins training initiative
The French research centre is set to start a new training programme for EDES, whose aim is to enhance food safety in ACP exports
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ArticleAfrica needs consumption boost
The health of Africans is severely under threat from an underconsumption of fruit and vegetables, say scientists in Senegal
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Kenya to develop export links
Kenya is developing infrastructure and looking to new markets to prevent oversupply of vegetables to Europe and a devaluation of produce.
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Kenya holds up benchmarking blueprint
Kenya’s benchmarked certification system could become the blueprint to benefit the whole of Africa, GlobalGAP smallholders ambassador Stephen Mbithi has forecast.
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ArticleRwanda eyes EU and US banana markets
African country is looking to boost banana production to meet demand in Europe and the US
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UK farmers boost African production
Food security in Western Kenya has been given a massive boost after fundraising from the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and the rest of the agriculture industry.
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Worldwatch examines food waste
Independent research organisation the Worldwatch Institute is running a project funded by the Bill & Melissa Gates Foundation dubbed Nourishing the Planet which aims to find sustainable solution to reduce global hunger and rural poverty including tackling food waste in the developed and developing world.
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ArticleBidding begins on African trade initiatives
The Food Retail Industry Challenge Fund (FRICH) has opened a third bidding round for UK companies to put forward innovative projects which promote trade to some of the poorest countries north of South Africa and south of the Sahara.
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Sainsbury's to up spending in Africa
The UK retailer plans to boost its expenditure in Africa, as it continues to increase its Fairtrade offering
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Africa's green revolution
Namanga Ngongi, an agronomist from Cameroon, believes that Africa may be embarking on a second green revolution
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ArticleNew venture to benefit African growers
Macfrut leads new Italian consortium aimed at encouraging technological development in sub-Saharan Africa
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ArticleKenyan flights underway
Kenya airlifted 300 tonnes of fruit and vegetables in three flights to the south of Spain last night.