Gambia: Enhancing food security will take national vision, local action

More than 170 project staff and beneficiaries taking part in the annual consultative forum (Photo credit: M.S.Joof/TNBES/Feb 2017)

For Gambia to enhance food security, strategy and implementation must be linked to attain food security and reduce poverty, the Agriculture Ministry’s permanent secretary Sait Drammeh said.

Brikamaba: Women Turn to Gardens After Failed Rice Growing Season

After a failed rice-growing season, women turn to gardens in Brikamaba, CRR (Photo by M.S. Joof/TNBES)

Some three hundred and ten women in Brikamaba, Lower Fulladu West of the Central River Region (CRR) have turned to gardening to fight off food security threats after a failed rice-growing season.

More than five hundred women and their families, 282 kilometers from the Gambian capital, Banjul, saw their rice fields completely destroyed by floods following torrential rains between July and September in 2015, the villagers told TNBES on Friday.

All-inclusive approach needed to address food insecurity in West Africa

A RICE FARM: Countries like Japan have invested heavily on food production, especially rice, and are giving out to poor African countries  (Photo credit: Facts and Details)

The Gambia: Over 300, 000 Cattle at Imminent Risk of Death

The N’Dama cattle, typical breed found in The Gambia (Photo credit: ITC)

West Africa: Contribution of livestock to food security below potential

The N’Dama cattle (Photo credit: ITC)