EU Supports Eritrea to Improve Food Security

BY EUROPEAN UNION (ERITREA) At the beginning of 2019 the EU launched a four years’ project in Eritrea to help improve food security and offer better income to participating farmers. The project, implemented through the Eritrean-Irish Development Partnership (Vita) with support from the Eritrean Ministry of Agriculture and the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI), focuses […]

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Government of Eritrea Reinforces Management of Desert Locust Control

BY KESETE GHEBREHIWET | SHABAIT Eritrea has taken intensive surveillance and control measures to deal with the desert locust threat in winter breeding areas and invasion from neighboring countries. Commendable activities have so far been made to deter risks that could pose a threat to crop and grazing land and other vegetation across the country.

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World Risks ‘Biblical’ Famines Due to Pandemic

“Even before the pandemic hit, parts of East Africa was already facing severe food shortages caused by drought and the worst locust infestations for decades” BY BBC NEWS The world is at risk of widespread famines “of biblical proportions” caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the UN has warned. David Beasley, head of the World Food […]

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Eritrea: Desert Locusts Control Operations Still Underway

Growing Desert Locust swarms continue to spread in the Horn of Africa with no apparent end in sight. BY MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE Control operations against Desert Locusts in Eritrea exceeded 34,500 hectares until February 6, 2020. According to Mr. Tedros Sium, Head of the Migratory Pests Control Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, control operations […]

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Promoting Inland Fisheries and Fish Consumption in Rural Eritrea

As part of its food security program, the government built hundreds of dams throughout the country. Besides being used for irrigation farming, 70 of these dams are now used to farm fish. Gov’t is now partnering to enhance awareness and development of inland fisheries in rural communities. BY MELA GHEBREMEDHIN | SHABAIT “Since I started […]

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