🇸🇳 Senegal
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News
Senegal to strengthen its plant protection system with new drones
Senegal’s Plant Protection Directorate (DPV) received six “new-generation” drones for surveillance and phytosanitary operations. This is the first time the…
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Senegal bans banana imports indefinitely
Senegal has banned banana imports indefinitely as of 1st September 2025. The move is the first of its kind for…
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Senegal plans a national tractor assembly plant to boost agricultural mechanisation
Senegal plans to establish a national tractor and farm equipment assembly plant as part of efforts to accelerate agricultural mechanisation…
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Food Security
Africa’s pastoralists hold the key to sustainable livestock and environmental balance
Across Africa, pastoralists and livestock keepers sustain herding systems which are closely bound up with our landscapes and crucial to…
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Investing
African Development Bank and Islamic Development Bank fund livestock project to improve animal product quality
Partners in the first phase of Senegal’s five-year National Integrated Livestock Development Program (French acronym PNDIES-P1) met on 28 May.…
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East Africa
Southern African women join a Fellowship to promote equitable agri-food systems policies
Thirteen Madagascan and two Mozambiquan women are amongst 50 African women selected as Policy Fellows for the second cohort of…
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Investing
Senegal gets US$123 million loan for emergency food production
The African Development Bank loaned Senegal US$123 million to implement an emergency agricultural program. The funds will help 850,000 small-scale…
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Markets
Coronavirus slams West Africa’s cashew market, some crops left to rot
Olivier Gore-Bi took out loans to ready his 12-acre cashew farm in Ivory Coast for harvest. He is now leaving…
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