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Tag: food crisis
IMF loans Burkina Faso $80.7m to address global food crisis impact
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has loaned Burkina Faso $80.7 million to help the West African country surf the impact of the global food crisis. ... Read More
Soaring fertilizer prices hit African small-scale farmers, deepening food crisis
Rapidly rising fertilizer prices are forcing farmers to reduce output and the world’s poorest continent is expected to be hardest hit, with Angola, Malawi and ... Read More
Acute undernutrition among mothers surges in Africa, UNICEF warns
Twelve countries, including Ten in Africa, are hardest hit by the global food and nutrition crisis among adolescent girls and women, UNICEF warned Monday (6 ... Read More
Global action needed to improve access to fertilizers, avert food crisis in Africa – WTO-FAO study
There is an urgent need for global action to address the fertilizer crisis, most importantly by keeping the fertilizer market open to meet global demand ... Read More
Torrential floods deepen food crisis in West, Central Africa amid climate emergency
An estimated 4 million people, many of them small subsistence farmers, in over a dozen countries in West and Central Africa that have seen their ... Read More
UN “deeply concerned” Russia’s pullout of grain deal will escalate world food crisis
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed deep concern at Russia’s decision to suspend its involvement in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a deal set up ... Read More
African food crisis, Morocco comes to the rescue
The announcement by Morocco’s phosphates and fertilizers producer OCP to double its soil nutrient exports to Africa was a boon for a continent that bears ... Read More
Fertilizer shortages in conflict-torn Burkina Faso threaten crops and food security
Since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia — the second largest international exporter after China — the prices of fertilizers in West Africa have skyrocketed, ... Read More
Tug-of-war: West and Russia vying for influence in Africa
French President Emanuel Macron and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are each visiting several African countries this week in what is widely seen as a ... Read More