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Egypt Establishes World’s Largest Date Plantation With 2.3 Million Trees
Egypt has begun establishing the world’s largest date plantation. A total of 2.3 million palm…
New Reality: How BRICS Becomes Global Centre of Food Security
World Bank data show that the food crisis continues to deepen. The BRICS countries can…
Food and Agriculture Organisation of United Nations Marks its 80th Anniversary
Chinese President Xi Jinping sent his congratulations to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the…
Ethiopia Unveils new Phytosanitary Plan to Strengthen Agriculture and Trade
Ethiopia has unveiled a new Phytosanitary Capacity Development Strategy (2026–2030) designed to modernise its agriculture…
QU Dongyu, Director-General of FAO: Conserving and sustainably managing and using forests is not just environmental imperative – it’s crucial strategy for food security and food diversity
This article was provided by QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). Our forests play a vital role in feeding the world. From wild foods to fresh water, from shelter to energy, forests sustain billions of people and biodiversity. Yet we continue to lose them at an alarming rate through deforestation and land degradation. Between 2015 and 2020, more than 10 million hectares of forest were lost each year—an area roughly the size of the Republic…
Thousands Of Ugandan Farmers Benefit From Chinese Agricultural Expertise Under The SSC Project
An agricultural revolution is taking place in the green fields of Uganda, and thousands of local farmers are cashing in. A South-South cooperation (SSC) project, a joint initiative aimed at boosting agricultural productivity and improving livelihoods, is in full swing. As part of the project, hundreds of Chinese agriculture experts are in Uganda upskilling local farmers with the intricacies of modern agriculture. The coordinator of the project in Uganda, Peter Muyimba, recently told ChinAfrica that there are 11,000 farmers in…
China Focus: Sci-Tech Backyard Mirrors Deepening Sino-African Agricultural Cooperation
Francina Lerato Kuwali, a 35-year-old international student from Malawi at China Agricultural University (CAU), returned recently with the exciting news that she and her classmates had helped local farmers in her country achieve a maize yield of 9,000 kg per hectare, nearly three times the local average. Over the past year, they have applied the agricultural techniques learned at CAU to assist 30 farmers in Malawi with maize cultivation, as part of the cultivation plan under the cooperative postgraduate education…