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On 10 July 2025, more than fifty stakeholders and partners specialising in agricultural trade and markets from Ghana, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Chad, Togo, as well as…

The Steering Committee of the West Africa Food System Resilience Programme – Burkina Faso Component (PRSA-BF) held its first statutory session of the year on Monday 28 July…

The Ministry of Food & Agriculture, MoFA through the West Africa Food System Resilience Programme (FSRP) has released 150 motorbikes to Agric Extension Agents in 10…

Tomatoes, one of the most consumed vegetables in Sierra Leone, are the focus of the Food Systems Resilience Programme (FSRP), with the country aiming to produce 27,000…

The training on capacity building for spray service providers and extension agents, organised by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the Ministry…

When animal housing does not meet technical standards, especially biosecurity standards, this leads to high livestock mortality and low animal growth. Housing is therefore…

More than 50 actors and partners involved in food insecurity risk management gathered in Lomé from 2 to 4 July to strengthen their capacities on the concepts, principles and…

With a view to accelerating the development of the rice sector in West Africa while reducing rice imports, ECOWAS, in collaboration with the World Bank, conducted a learning…

On 29 May 2025 in Abidjan, during the 7th edition of the Salon de l'Agriculture et des Ressources Animales (SARA), ECOWAS, through its Rice Observatory (ERO), organised a…

In Niger, rice is the third most important cereal crop after millet and sorghum, in terms of both surface area and production. It plays an important role in the country's…