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With almost 42 million people currently facing hunger and malnutrition, and almost 10 million internally displaced people or refugees in neighbouring countries, the West…

Some twenty experts on food safety issues responded to an invitation from the ECOWAS Directorate of Agriculture and Rural Development (DADR) to review progress and pre-…

The regional coordination of the West African food system resilience programme (PRSA/FSRP) has invited all the programme's monitoring and evaluation specialists to a…

The regional coordination of the Food System Resilience Programme invited rice sector stakeholders from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Ghana, Togo, Chad and Sierra Leone to a…

On 7 June 2023, the international community celebrated the 5th Food Safety Day on the theme "Food standards save lives", inviting everyone to make an effort to adopt healthy…

From 29 to 31 October, the Togolese Capital Lome hosted a crucial meeting for the stakeholders and implementing partners of the West African Food System Resilience Programme…

On the sidelines of the Africa Food System Forum held from 2 to 6 September in Kigali, a meeting was held between the ECOWAS Director of Agriculture and Rural Development,…

ECOWAS organized a side event on “Scaling Investments for Rice Self-Sufficiency in West Africa: Opportunities and Challenges” on September 3rd in Kigali, Rwanda in…

On 7 June 2024, the international community celebrated the 6ème International Food Safety Day on the theme “Food safety: preparing for the unexpected”, inviting everyone to…

ECOWAS trained around one hundred Ghanaian and Burkina Faso practitioners and regulators involved in food and agricultural trade on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures…