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Africa’s Perennial Problem of Feeding its Population

Tuesday, November 01, 2022
Food stalls at Kimisagara market in Kigali. Rwanda has seen a significant improvement in its food security status, with statistics from a 2018 report showing that 81.3 per cent of its population was food secure. Photo: Craish Bahizi.
Rwanda

World Food Day: How Rwanda keeps focus on food security

Thursday, October 27, 2022
A landscape picture of Mukunguri rice plantation in Kamonyi District. Rwanda is set to increase the scale of land on which rice is grown by 5,000 hectares to intensify production. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture

Rwanda to increase rice plantations by 5,000 hectares

Saturday, October 15, 2022
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AfDB approves $1.5Bn facility to counter food crisis on the continent

Monday, May 23, 2022
Food section of Kimironko Market Kigali - Photo Luqman Mahoro

The highs and lows of feeding the ‘land of a thousand hills’

Monday, August 01, 2022
Women in a cooperative weed their potato plantation in Muko Sector ,Musanze District.The over Rwf153 billion proposed budget for the agriculture sector in the next fiscal year, will focus on increasing food production. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Agric budget to focus on containing fertiliser costs, food security

Friday, May 27, 2022
A rice farmer works in rice plantation at Bugarama wetland . File

Farmers seek farm gate price rise amidst soaring costs

Thursday, May 26, 2022
The New Times

AfDB approves $1.5Bn facility to counter food crisis on the continent

Saturday, May 21, 2022
Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente speaking to members of the press on Wednesday.

PM assures of food security, warns against price hikes

Thursday, March 17, 2022
Prime Minister Dr. Edouard Ngirente officiated the launch of the African Green Revolution Forum in Kigali on March 3. / Courtesy

Major agric Summit to focus on Africa’s food security

Thursday, March 03, 2022
Minister for Infrastructure Claver Gatete (centre) and other officials during a guided tour of the electric cable factory under construction in Nyanza District on May 8. / Photo Courtesy

2021 key investments likely to bolster local production

Wednesday, December 29, 2021
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This is our time to get food systems right

Wednesday, August 11, 2021