West Africa: Ebola Outbreak Sends Food Prices Shooting Up

Disruptions in food trade and marketing in the three West African countries most affected by Ebola have made food increasingly expensive and hard to come by, while labor shortages are putting the upcoming harvest season at serious risk, FAO warned today. In Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, quarantine zones and restrictions on people’s movement aimed […]

Entico Corp, AU Commission to hold Africa Climate Summit

The African Union Commission in collaboration with the Entico Corporation announced the Africa Climate Resilient Infrastructure Summit (ACRIS), to take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, between 17-19th of November, 2014. All African ministers responsible for ICT, energy, transport infrastructure and agriculture, food security and water, from across the continent have been invited to meet with […]