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Current Feed ContentOyster season ends“The culture of Oyster harvesting has been with us generations. Just like fishing activities, its harvesting procedure includes: harvesting from mangroves, processing as well as marketing, and it is done by women in The Gambia”, said Fatou Mboob Janha, coordinator of the Try Oyster Women Association, at Camalo along the Banjul/Serekunda highway, as the oyster season ends on Tuesday. Mrs Mboob, a long time customer, said that, she one day visited the group, at their processing site and was...Sub-regional integration is the way forward, says SoS Yankuba TourayHon. Yankuba Touray, the SoS for fisheries and water resources, has said that sub-regional integration is the only way forward to achieve success in conserving and preserving the precious fisheries resources for now and posterity. SoS Touray made these remarks yesterday at the protocol of implementation of the agreement between the Gambia and Senegal on the area of maritime fisheries held at the Atlantic Hotel in Banjul. According to SoS Touray, it is as a result of the growing international...NCC on Strategic Planning WorkshopA two-day strategic planning workshop for national Codex Committee members is underway at the national production agency. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Permanent Secretary at the office of the Vice-President Mrs. Fatou Jasseh Kuyateh, said the Codex Alimentarius Commission was established by the FAO and WHO to develop food standards guidelines and recommendations to protect the health of consumers and to ensure best practice in the food trade. She stated that the fundamental...854M people suffering from hunger...FAO revealsIn observance of World Food Day, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), has confirmed that the planet produces enough food to adequately feed its entire population. Paradoxically, the UN body indicates that yet over 854 million women, men and children still go to sleep on an empty stomach. This was disclosed, last Monday, during a ceremony held at the Buffer Zone field in Latrikunda...FAO to commemorate World Food DayThe country’s office of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), the UN food and agricultural agency, is currently warming up for the commemoration of the World Food Day, and a world-wide candle light vigil celebration of the Telefood Day, scheduled for October 22. This year’s celebration is themed: “The Right To Food”. Reports from the FAO office in Banjul revealed that the objective of this year’s celebration, is to raise awareness on the fight against hunger and to promote universal...‘African Green Revolution needed to end hunger’Jacques Diouf, the Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has said that in order to reverse the 45 million undernourished people in Africa, end hunger in the region, lift millions out of extreme poverty and to achieve and sustain Africa’s economic growth, what is required is nothing less than an African Green Revolution. In a statement issued by the FAO Banjul office on the address of the Director General on Green Revolution for Africa, Mr. Diouf said... |
