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Trainings on cocoa grafting was conducted for Chale and Uzamba Participatory Action Research (PAR) farmers in the Western Province. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) through its Research Department conducted the field trainings recently at Chale ... Read more...

On July 27, Ogoni Peoples launched a blockade in the East-West Road in Eleme, Rivers State, Nigeria to protest the long time neglect of the road and to demand for its swift reconstruction. Hundreds of Ogoni from different communities gather in a peaceful ... Read more...

Fiji Airports has secured a multimillion-dollar finance facility through ANZ in partnership with the AIFFP. "The pandemic's toll on tourism and aviation has set back years of economic progress across the Pacific. With the support of Australia ... Read more...

UN Climate Change News , 31 July 2021 – Against the backdrop of extreme weather emergencies throughout the world, yesterday was an important day in our collective effort against climate change. It marked the cut-off date for the submission of new ... Read more...

As part of the Global People’s Summit (GPS) on Food Systems , thousands of people across the globe participated in online and on-the-ground protest actions against the recently concluded United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit. The GPS is a counter-summit ... Read more...

Rome, Italy—Asian migrant agricultural workers, Italian labor groups, and other CSOs held a protest action in front of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters last July 25, a day before the official start of the UN Food Systems ... Read more...

The cost of vaccinating the world against COVID-19 could be at least five times cheaper if pharmaceutical companies weren’t profiteering from their monopolies on COVID-19 vaccines, campaigners from the People’s Vaccine Alliance said today. ... Read more...

Life-saving aid to families on the brink of famine is being cut off in several countries by fighting and blockades, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) said in a new report issued on Friday. Of grave concern are ... Read more...

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) strongly condemned an attack in its main compound in the western Afghan province of Herat on Friday that left an Afghan police guard dead and other officers injured. So-called “anti-Government ... Read more...

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor hosted a topical webinar on transitional justice and impunity in Libya that brought together a group of international experts from leading civil society organizations and the public sector. The expert panel, ... Read more...