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14 November 2017
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held a high level policy dialogue with Rwanda’s Senators and Chamber of Deputies and other government institutions to raise awareness on how to meet the global and regional commitments that Rwanda has ratified. The meeting is also to help the Parliamentarians understand...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held a high level policy dialogue with Rwanda’s Senators and Chamber of Deputies and other government institutions to raise awareness on how to meet the global and regional commitments that Rwanda has ratified. The meeting is also to help the Parliamentarians understand...
04 November 2017
Over 500 participants from 190 delegations of the International Treaty on Plant Genetics resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) across the world, convened in Kigali, Rwanda from the 30 October – 03 November 2017 for the Seventh Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty. The conference aimed at among...
Over 500 participants from 190 delegations of the International Treaty on Plant Genetics resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) across the world, convened in Kigali, Rwanda from the 30 October – 03 November 2017 for the Seventh Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty. The conference aimed at among...
World Food Day: Rwanda calls on industrialists to invest in agriculture to promote rural development
26 October 2017
On 26 October 2017, Rwanda celebrated the World Food Day event usually celebrated on the October 16 globally. The guest of honour was the country’s minister of agriculture and animal resources, Dr Gérardine Mukeshimana. Minister Mukeshimana encouraged industrialists to get involved in the process that will see increase in agricultural output to create...
On 26 October 2017, Rwanda celebrated the World Food Day event usually celebrated on the October 16 globally. The guest of honour was the country’s minister of agriculture and animal resources, Dr Gérardine Mukeshimana. Minister Mukeshimana encouraged industrialists to get involved in the process that will see increase in agricultural output to create...
18 October 2017
Launtina Mukahirwa crosses the border every morning to sell isambaza fish from Lake Kivu in the border market of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Launtina is a small-scale cross-border trader with an experience of more than ten years under her cooperative CODEPEC. However, she is not earning much from her...
Launtina Mukahirwa crosses the border every morning to sell isambaza fish from Lake Kivu in the border market of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Launtina is a small-scale cross-border trader with an experience of more than ten years under her cooperative CODEPEC. However, she is not earning much from her...
16 October 2017
Uwimana Annonciata wakes up every day at 3am to go irrigate her crops with water from Yanze River, she is afraid that if she doesn’t get the water early she won’t be allowed to use it. She is also avoiding conflict with other farmers over water from the River. Annonciata’s district, Rulindo, is upstream in the Yanze River that supplies water to Kigali. The Yanze watershed is...
Uwimana Annonciata wakes up every day at 3am to go irrigate her crops with water from Yanze River, she is afraid that if she doesn’t get the water early she won’t be allowed to use it. She is also avoiding conflict with other farmers over water from the River. Annonciata’s district, Rulindo, is upstream in the Yanze River that supplies water to Kigali. The Yanze watershed is...
