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The Deputy Minister of Agriculture II, Hon. Sahr Hemore, on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, has officially received a package of operational…

Since 23 May 2026, a mission to develop the Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) for the West Africa Food System Resilience Programme in Chad (FSRP) has been deployed in the…

Faced with ever-increasing demand for rice, Togo is accelerating the modernisation of its rice sector, which is still hampered by shortcomings in local processing. Having…

As part of the programme to develop 1,000 hectares of modern farms for community agricultural cooperatives, the FSRP-SN officially handed over the sites in February to the…

For many years, smallholder farmers in rural communities struggled to increase their yields despite their hard work and experience. Limited access to practical research and…

Two years ago, riverine farming communities across Sierra Leone lost an estimated 15% of their rice production due to flooding, resulting in reduced yields, lost incomes,…

For a long time, farmers lived at the mercy of an unpredictable sky, and the weather was almost a mystery. Should they sow now…

On 2–3 March 2026, in Lomé, Togo, more than 80 participants from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Chad and Togo, as well as from CILSS, CORAF, ECOWAS and…

Intra-regional trade in agricultural and food products is crucial for West Africa's food system resilience, but persistent challenges result in lower official trade flows…

On Tuesday, 27 January 2026, a consortium comprising the Regional Hub for Fertilizer and Soil Health for West Africa and the Sahel, the International Institute of Tropical…