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Thursday, October 5, 2017
Morrisons launches £5 wonky veg box.
Morrisons launches £5 wonky veg box. Morrisons has launched a £5 veg box which it claims can feed a family of four for a week. Customers who don’t mind their vegetables “wonky” can buy a box for just £3, plus a delivery charge, of between £1 and £5.
Buying the wonky box has the added benefit of helping the environment by saving on food waste. Tonnes of vegetables which don’t match up to strict supermarket size and shape parameters are thrown away each year. Morrisons is going head-to-head with big-four supermarket rival, Asda, which recently launched its own box of misshapen vegetables for £3.50.
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EU and FAO bring combined weight to bear on food waste.
EU and FAO bring combined weight to bear on food waste.EU Commissioner of Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis and FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva agreed to ratchet up collaboration between the two organizations to address food waste, food safety, and antimicrobial resistance in supply chains.
In a new letter of intent, FAO and the EU pledge to work closely together to halve per capita food waste by 2030, a goal established under the new Sustainable Development Goals global agenda. It also commits them to intensified cooperation on tackling the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on farms and in food systems. continue
NIS urges personnel to engage in agriculture .
NIS urges personnel to engage in agriculture.The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has urged its men and officers to engage in farming as a viable alternative source of income. Its Comptroller-General, Mr Muhammad Babandede, made the call at a sensitisation and capacity building forum on agriculture for personnel of the service continue
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Fidelity Bank to assist exporters to access global markets .
FIDELITY Bank Plc has commenced the fifth series of the Export Management Programme (EMP), offering to assist exporters across the country to access global markets for their products as well as provide support to comply with documentation required for export competitiveness.
Speaking at a press conference to mark the commencement of the EMP 5thstream, Managing Director/Chief Executive, Fidelity Bank, Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo said that among other things, the bank assists graduates of the programme to access global market for their products. more
UN launches $9 million food security project.
UN launches $9 million food security project.The United Nations ( UN ) on Tuesday launched a nine million-dollar food security project in Kaduna State to improve the livelihood of farmers in the state.
Briefing newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, Mr Edward Kallon, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, said that the project known as “Food Africa’’ was to ensure improved nutrition and food sufficiency in the country.
Kallon said the project was an innovative approach aimed at revamping the food sector to create new jobs for young people, increase farmers’ revenue, improve productivity, enhance nutrition and reduce food loss through the adoption of more sustainable production practices. more
Monkeypox hits Bayelsa, medical doctor, 10 others quarantined.
Monkeypox hits Bayelsa, medical doctor, 10 others quarantined. Fear has gripped the residents of Bayelsa State as a deadly viral epidemic known as “monkeypox” has broken out in the state.
According to the World Health Organisation, monkeypox is a rare disease that occurs primarily in remote parts of Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests. “The monkeypox virus can cause a fatal illness in humans and, although it is similar to human smallpox which has been eradicated, it is much milder,” WHO says.
It was authoritatively learnt that a medical doctor and 10 persons who came down with the monkeypox had been quarantined in an isolation centre at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. The isolation centre was reportedly created by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control and the epidemiological team of the state’s Ministry of Health to control the spread of the virus more
GROWING UP AND GROWING OUT: PATHWAYS FOR WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT.
GROWING UP AND GROWING OUT: PATHWAYS FOR WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT.Meet Sulura, a woman who transitioned from selling maize flour to owning her own restaurant. Now she wants to share the secrets of her success with other women entrepreneurs.
At TechnoServe, we are lucky to be able to speak to many women with incredible stories. Recently we met Sulura, a woman in Nampula, Mozambique, as part of a study of women entrepreneurs, funded by the ExxonMobil Foundation under the Business Women Connect program.
Sulura is a strong, charismatic woman who, upon seeing us talking to women in the market, approached us and demanded that we include her story! We were glad she did, as Sulura’s story is a classic example of women’s economic empowerment in action.
Many women in Mozambique experience significant barriers to business growth. The same day we met Sulura, we met a family of three generations of women – Rosa, her daughter, Ana Rafael, and Ana’s newborn daughter – who have been selling maize flour in the same market spot for 20 years. They buy maize from a nearby farm and process it at a local mill.
Rosa and Ana Rafael barely make enough money to be able to feed their families. Maize flour is an extremely competitive commodity with low profit margins. When we asked them why they didn’t switch to a different product, Rosa and Ana Rafael said “this is all we know how to do.”
Sulura told us that she also began her business journey by selling maize flour in the market. However, instead of sticking to flour, she carefully saved her profits and used these savings to buy fish and shrimp to sell at the market. After a while, she invested in a small stove and started to sell cooked fish, improving her margins and reducing her inventory waste of spoiled fish.
Eventually, Sulura had saved enough money to build a small restaurant in the market. Sulura came to realize that whenever her business had “grown up,” it was time to “grow out” into something more profitable. more
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