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  • Published on Jun 18, 2020

    Botswana’s virus food prep puts long-term plans on hold

    “Botswana has not been spared by the wave of COVID-19,” says Jimmy Opelo, Permanent Secretary at Botswana’s agricultural ministry, who revealed how his country has had to change its tack on farm and food policymaking due to the pandemic. The World Bank has …

    Source: EurActiv - Neutral
  • Published on Dec 30, 2020

    The global angle to the farmer protests

    It is not just domestic firms that are potential beneficiaries of the new farm laws; foreign agribusinesses are a danger too The farmers’ movement for the repeal of the three farm laws which affect them closely but have been rammed through without …

    Source: The Hindu - Left-wing
  • Published on Mar 31, 2020

    Newsflash: Botswana’s President Masisi imposes 28-day lockdown, indefinite public emergency

    Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi, President of Botswana speaks during the opening plenary session of the World Economic Forum on Africa (WEF) titled Delivering the Promise of Africa’s Youth at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, South Africa, 04 …

    Source: Daily Maverick - Neutral
  • Published on Jul 29, 2019

    Botswana presidency modelled on pre-colonial and colonial autocracy

    Two African scholars, one at the University of Botswana, have poured cold water on Botswana’s much vaunted status as a “shining example” of democracy. The argument that Professors Asafa Jalata of the University of Tennessee and Monageng Mogalakwe of UB …

    Source: Sunday Standard - Uncategorized
  • Published on Nov 10, 2017

    Botswana grain reserve depleted

    Government injects P40 million for 2017/18 cropping season subsidy The Strategic Grain Reserve has (SGR) has been exhausted and cabinet has augmented the subsidy by P40 million for the 2017/18 cropping season. The 2012 Government decision to up …

    Source: The Voice - Neutral
  • Published on Feb 21, 2019

    Hit by wilder weather, Botswana's farmers seek welfare payments

    MOLEPOLOLE – Maipato Kesebang normally grows maize, jugo beans and sweet reed on her 20-hectare plot of land north-west of Gaborone, Botswana's capital. But last year, worsening drought and heatwaves destroyed much of her harvest. “The little that grew …

    Source: The Namibian - Neutral
  • Published on Jun 6, 2017

    Experts push for strengthening of Sadc grain reserves

    Some villagers and farmers’ crops in Umguza District, Matabeleland North Province, were seriously affected by Cyclone Dineo-induced floods as their maize crop which was at tasseling stage was submerged in water. The picture taken last year at Mtambo …

    Source: The Chronicle (Zimbabwe) - Gov't Propaganda
  • Published on Nov 27, 2018

    Black Friday as a reminder of the economic disparity in Botswana

    BY VICTOR BAATWENG The comment was specifically meant to remind the nation of the need to address the gap between the rich and the poor citizens of this country. This gap, as we all know continues to grow wider each and every passing day. Apart from the …

    Source: Sunday Standard - Uncategorized
  • Published on Jun 24, 2018

    Botswana’s maize supply…..a long journey to stability

    There is still serious shortage of maize in the country, and Botswana for the longest time shall remain a net importer of maize grain. As it stands, Botswana continues to import about 170 000 metric tonnes of maize on annual basis as local farmers fail to …

    Source: Sunday Standard - Uncategorized
  • Published on Aug 1, 2020

    Mozambique Key Message Update: COVID-19, drought, and conflict perpetuate Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes, July 2020

    Second season production in southern and central Mozambique, which is primarily vegetables, is progressing well in lowland areas with adequate residual soil moisture. However, the second-season harvest is expected to be below average due to below-average …

    Source: ReliefWeb - Neutral
  • Published on Mar 25, 2018

    Botswana’s food supplies remain stable – FAO

    The torrential rains that the country has been receiving lately may have come a little bit too late to reverse the decline in cereal production for the year. On Wednesday, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United nations sounded an early …

    Source: Sunday Standard - Uncategorized
  • Published on Jul 30, 2020

    Maroney: Dairy should go organic to save itself and the lake

    Photos and charts courtesy James Maroney by James Maroney I am a retired organic dairy farmer, the third certified in Vermont in 1989. We milked 125 cows and raised corn, soybeans and alfalfa on about 500 acres, which more than complies with the ideal …

    Source: Vermont Business Magazine - Neutral
  • Published on Jul 29, 2020

    NDC-Gives-Bawumia-60-Mahama-Achievements-For-Akufo-Addos-50

    The biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has, in a statement, listed 60 achievements of former President John Mahama in response to Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s recent publication of 50 achievements of President Nana …

    Source: Peace FM - Neutral
  • Published on Jul 29, 2020

    NDC reacts to Bawumia with 60 achievements of Mahama

    The main opposition National Democratic Congress says they are ready for the comparison of achievements challenge being advanced by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. The Vice President in a Facebook post Tuesday published what he says are 50 achievements …

    Source: Ghana MMA - Neutral
  • Published on Mar 2, 2018

    Botswana's food deficit to widens as plantings drop 75 percent

    Botswana, a landlocked, diamond-rich nation, perennially relies of food imports mostly from neighboring South Africa to augment relatively low local production.  Addressing Parliament late Thursday, the Minister of Agriculture Patrick Ralotsia said a total …

    Source: Angola Press News Agency - Gov't Propaganda
  • Published on Jul 13, 2020

    Covid-19: MPs want investment in battered agriculture sector

    The Herald By Moses Magadza Herald Correspondent WINDHOEK – Members of Parliament who represent their countries on the SADC PF Standing Committee on Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources are cracking their heads over how to help revive the agriculture …

    Source: The Herald (Zimbabwe) - Gov't Propaganda
  • Published on Feb 1, 2020

    Zacc probes GMB . . . Employees’ mealie meal allocation arrangement suspended . . . 60 percent of commodity being ...

    The Sunday News Dumisani Nsingo and Stanford Chiwanga, Sunday News Reporters  THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is set to investigate GMB senior management and sales representatives in Bulawayo after a taskforce that was formed to probe the …

    Source: The Sunday News - Gov't Propaganda
  • Published on Jan 25, 2017

    Botswana increases cereal production

    MAUN - SADC director for food, agriculture and natural resources, Ms Margaret Nyirenda says Botswana is ahead of other Southern African countries in terms of a net increase in cereal production. The country recorded a high cereal increase compared to last …

    Source: Republic of Botswana - Uncategorized
  • Published on Apr 18, 2020

    Zimbabwe shall rise again. . .

    INDEPENDENCE Day speech by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Cde Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, April 18, 2019 I welcome you all who are gathered here to celebrate our 39th Independence Anniversary. I also extend a warm welcome to …

    Source: Bulawayo 24 News - Neutral
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