Tag: Food and Agriculture Organization

In recent years, the adoption of GM seeds by crop farmers has elicited intense debate across Nigeria amidst safety concerns.

From 2022 to 2023, the United Nations said hunger increased in Western Asia, the Caribbean, and most African subregions.

Three of Mongabay’s Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellows detail the local situation in their region.

"All the benefits one should get from the sale of the crops are exhausted on transportation. Only bikes can get ...

More than 3 billion people can’t afford a healthy diet

Available data suggest the country improved marginally in the production of key food in 2021.

In a region already facing rampant piracy, the pillaging of fish stocks by industrial operators must be stopped.

Despite its huge coconut consumption record, Nigeria buys the bulk of its coconuts from Ghana and Ivory Coast, and ranks ...

Across West Africa, as of April, over 11 million people needed immediate food assistance - mostly due to conflict.

According to the UN body, the increases outpaced inflation in many countries of the world.