This Decree, consisting of 21 articles and 1 Annex, approves the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development (MAPDR). It establishes composition, duties, and responsibilities of the above mentioned Ministry, entitled to implement Governm...

This Decree-Law, consisting of 17 articles and 3 Annexes, aims at approving the hygiene and sanitary regulations for any foodstuff destined to be put on the market, in order to guarantee human health and better protection of consumers. This Decree-La...

The purpose of this ordinance is to protect consumers, to ensure fair trade practices, and to contribute to the promotion of trade by appropriate control of the quality of products and foodstuffs and by the repression of fraud. Its provisions apply t...

This decree sets the taxes for disinfection, disinsection, rat control, beer brewing, exhumation, and fines to be imposed for non-compliance with hygiene rules.

Questions relating to hygiene in urban agglomerations, the salubrity of housing, foodstuffs, and their handlers, establishments of foodstuffs and equipment, the treatment of household waste are addressed in this law which includes 4 titles, namely: p...

Le présent arrêté porte création d'un comité ad hoc sur la sécurité sanitaire des aliments au Cameroun, ayant pour missions de: poser le diagnostic des systèmes actuels de contrôle des aliments au Cameroun; - réfléchir sur de nouvelles techniques pro...

This Law approves the Sanitary Regulation of the Popular Republic of Angola. It consists of 13 chapters concerning several aspects of the hygiene and sanitary procedures to be applied, such as: (1) competent authority (including composition and compe...

On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards, such as megafires, extreme weather events, desert locust swa...

The State of Food and Agriculture 2020 presents new estimates on the pervasiveness of water scarcity in irrigated agriculture and of water shortages in rainfed agriculture, as well as on the number of people affected. It finds major differences acros...

The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020 (SOCO 2020) aims to discuss policies and mechanisms that promote sustainable outcomes – economic, social and environmental – in agricultural and food markets, both global and domestic. The analysis is...

Effective Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policies can help to counter the economic and food security impacts of disasters as well as safeguard people’s livelihoods. But creating and implementing effective policies involves knowing the disaster strike...

Africa’s cities currently provide the largest and most rapidly growing agricultural markets in Africa. Out of total urban food sales of roughly US$200 to US$250 billion per year, over 80% comes from domestic African suppliers. In the coming decad...