Six hundred and fifty million people in Africa lack economic or physical access to sufficient food, the 2023 Africa Agriculture Status Report has revealed. This figure represents 50 per cent of the continent’s population. The report, which was launched at the Africa Food Systems Forum (AFSF) 2023 in Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania, has therefore called for a […]
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Food Security: Government increasing warehousing capacity to 200, 000
The government is constructing 80 warehouses with the capacity to store up to 80,000 metric tonnes(MT) of food items aimed at ensuring food security in the country. Each warehouse would have the capacity to store up to 1,000 MT of food items and expected to be ready by June, this year. Speaking at a media […]