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Africa is a continent that struggles with high unemployment, poverty and low economic growth. Growth in agriculture is two to three times more effective at reducing poverty than an equivalent amount of growth generated outside agriculture. Africa’s agricultural...

University of Arkansas researchers are developing a vaccine that includes multiple bacterial species to reduce the incidence of bacterial chondronecrosis with osteomyelitis (BCO), a costly leg lameness in broilers. Bacterial vaccine could reduce broiler lameness |...

Food consumers tend to trust farmers to do the right thing, but they are often skeptical of agrifood companies, even if the two have common values. To build consumer trust, ‘push the farmer forward’ | WATTPoultry...

This global summary report presents the top concerns around the world, alongside whether people think things in their country are heading in the right or wrong direction. What Worries the World - April 2023...

France has eased restrictions to curb the impact of avian influenza as there have been no new cases of the virus detected on farms in the country since March 14. Poultry farmers are now allowed to let birds outdoors under certain conditions and must keep them away...

The African Business Council, which brings together regional economic communities, has noted the inconsistent and inadequate freight and logistics along African borders, saying it has hindered intra-Africa trade. In response, the African Continental Free Trade Area...

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France has launched a tender for 80 million doses of avian influenza vaccines as the country prepares to begin a vaccination programme this autumn. This is the first member of the EU to start such a scheme, reports Reuters. With millions of commercially raised birds...

Over the past month, outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in both wild birds and commercial poultry have occurred in the Republic of Senegal. In early March, the H5N1 HPAI virus serotype was detected in wild species following mass mortalities of birds...

Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) recently opened the newly constructed Bayhead Bypass Road, a critical route that will enable the seamless flow of road traffic to the Port of Durban TNPA said in a statement that the road would help to alleviate truck...