The war on Iran is driving up fuel and fertiliser costs across Africa, threatening food security, trade officials say.

African countries have become reliant on a few food items. Just 20 plant species now provide 90% of our food, with three—wheat, maize, and rice—accounting for 60% of all calories consumed on the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. African leaders will meet for the Africa Food Systems Forum 2025: an ...

The highly anticipated UN World Food Summit ended with an announcement of new coalitions to increase healthy diets from sustainable food systems. The headlines for Africa coming out of the summit are ...

Rates of hunger in Africa are unacceptably high and getting worse. The UN State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 report reveals that food insecurity in Africa is the highest of any ...

Sign up to Devex Dish today. More than 6,000 delegates are gathered in Dakar, Senegal, this week for the Africa Food Systems Forum, the continent’s biggest ...

Last week's Food Systems Summit highlighted Africa’s commitment to transforming food systems as Agnes Kalibata, the United Nations secretary-general’s special envoy for the event, noted that 48 out of ...

It will enable the company one of us started, ColdHubs, to build ten more solar-powered, digitally monitored, cold-storage units at rural produce markets throughout Nigeria. These units reduce food ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The African Development Bank (AfDB) has released agricultural development plans for 40 countries across the continent that outline pathways to ...

Food insecurity is stalking hundreds of millions of people across Africa. Access, availability and affordability of food on the continent must be urgently improved, and the crisis can only be solved ...

A range of projects have been started recently to improve food safety in Africa. Involved groups are the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the ...

The new US foreign assistance strategy for nutrition makes little room for vulnerable smallholder farmers who have been the foundation of Africa’s food systems to date. Journalist and researcher.