The International Fertilizer Development Center and the Kenyan government have signed an accreditation agreement that formalizes their shared commitment to sustainable agricultural development in the country. 

The agreement establishes Kenya as a “host” country to IFDC. IFDC’s priorities are those of Kenya – ensuring that fertilizer, training and agricultural technologies reach the farmers that need them the most. 

“Agriculture is the engine that drives Kenya’s economy,” said Dr. Amit Roy, IFDC president and CEO. “Our valued partnership with the Kenyan government will keep that locomotive roaring.” 

IFDC’s collaboration with the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture began in the early 1990s with joint projects to

Ethiopian Prime Minister Desalegn on Wednesday said that Ethiopia, which has long been plagued by drought and famine, had managed to achieve food security.

"At a household level, we will continue efforts to attain self-sufficiency," he told a rally in capital Addis Ababa marking the 23rd anniversary of the overthrow of the communist Dergue regime. "We are proud to have erased the humiliating image which identified us with hunger and famine," the premier said. Desalegn said that his government – led by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, which overthrew the regime of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam 23 years ago – was leading the country

Government may reconsider its position on the ban of genetically modified organisms if a comprehensive study on their merits and demerits in agriculture is conducted, a senior State official has said.

Deputy Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Dr Godfrey Gandawa, said this during a fact-finding visit to the National Biotechnology Authority offices in Harare on Monday by a parliamentary committee."We need to do a thorough research and give Cabinet full facts outlining the merits and demerits of producing GMOs," he said. "I think every reasonable Government would adopt GMOs if the merits and demerits are known

The president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has recently called for greater support to Africa’s small family farmers as a key to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger on the continent.

“There are 500 million smallholder family farms in the world providing food and livelihoods for billions of people,” IFAD president Kanayo F. Nwanze said in an address to a conference sponsored by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) recently, saying “investing in the resilience of smallholder farmers is also investing in the resilience of food systems, the resilience of communities, and the strength of nations.”

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A TWO-day workshop in Bujumbura has been told of the serious threat that aflatoxin contamination poses to citizens of East Africa. The main objective of the inception workshop held in the Burundian capital was to introduce to key stakeholders the components and implementation arrangements of the EAC Regional Project on Aflatoxins and to constitute the EAC Regional Experts Working Group on Aflatoxins (REWGA).

Opening the workshop over the weekend, Burundi's Minister for Agriculture Odette Kayitesi said the project was expected to tremendously contribute to food security and safety through aflatoxin control and prevention in the region. In a speech read on