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Training and Capacity Building
Promoting Aquaculture and Employment in Liberia
LiberiaFAO

Decades of turmoil and civil conflict have had a crippling effect on Liberia’s agricultural sector, and increasingly rapid growth in youth migration to urban areas has led to high youth unemployment and urban poverty. Agriculture is the sector with t...

Research and Development
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018
All CountriesFAO

The 2018 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture emphasizes the sector’s role in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, and measurement of progress towards these goals. It notes th...

On-Farm Production (crops, livestock)
Angola: Rice Crop Grow and Food Security Reinforcement
AngolaChiambo PJ, Coelho JP, Soares FB, Salumbo A and Li...

Rice is the staple food of more than three billion people around the world. In Angola it is the most consumed food after maize and cassava. At a time when the country population increases at an approximate annual rate of 3.27% associated to an econom...

Research and Development
Food and Agricultural Import Regulations and Standards Report – FAIRS Annual Country Report
South AfricaWellington Sikuka

All the sections of the report have been updated based on recent amendments to regulations, updated website links and to comply with the updated reporting instructions. The report includes an assessment of laws and import requirements for food and...

Research and Development
South Africa Sugar Annual Report
South AfricaWellington Sikuka

Post forecasts the South African sugar cane crop will increase by 2 percent to 19.5 million Metric Tons (MT) in the 2019/20 Marketing Year (MY), due to normal weather conditions, improved sugar cane yields and increases in area planted for small sc...

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South Africa Unable to Stifle Latest Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease
South AfricaKyle Bonsu

South Africa was in the process of recovering from the January 2019 Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak when a new incident occurred on November 1 in the Molemole District of Limpopo. Although South Africa was able to put systems in place to ensure tha...

Processing
South Africa Food Processing Ingredients Report 2019
South AfricaMargaret Ntloedibe

In 2018, South Africa imported US$3.2 billion in processed foods, an increase of 5.5 percent from 2017, with the top five products being palm oil, food preparations, whiskies, beer made from malt, and animal guts, bladder and stomach parts. In the...

Research and Development
South Africa Citrus Annual Report
South AfricaWellington Sikuka

South Africa`s production of grapefruit, oranges, tangerines/mandarins and lemons/limes is forecast to continue its strong growth in the 2018/19 MY, based on the increase in area planted, high level of newplanting in the past five years and on the n...

Research and Development
South Africa Grain and Feed Update
South AfricaDirk Esterhuizen

Due to unfavorable weather conditions, Post estimates a 14 percent drop in commercial corn area planted for the 2018/19 MY in South Africa. As a result, commercial corn production is expected to drop by 23 percent to around 10.0 million tons. While...

Research and Development
Diversity and Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Parasites in Farmed Pigs in Southeast Gabon, Central Africa
Central African Republic (CAR)Gael Maganga, Linda Bohou Kombila, Larson Boundeng...

Gastrointestinal infestations caused by intestinal parasites are the most important diseases and the most common in pigs in the tropics. These parasites are often associated with a huge economic loss. This study aimed to assess the diversity and p...

Research and Development
Bushmeat in Gabon
GabonKatharine Anne Abernethy, Anne Marie Ndong Obiang

The National Strategy for Bushmeat Management in Gabon From 2000 to the present, the Gabonese government, through the Wildlife Department of the Ministry of Wildlife and Forests (Ministère des Eaux et Forêts) has been developing a National Strategy f...

Research and Development
Changes in Livelihood Practices, Strategies and Dependence on Bushmeat in Two Provinces in Gabon
GabonE. J. T. Van Gils, Verina Jane Ingram, D. Mikoko I...

Traditional, forest resource-dependent livelihoods face multiple challenges. In Gabon, bushmeat provides food and income for rural communities. This study investigates how villagers believe livelihood practices and dependence on bushmeat changed over...

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