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646jili com { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "NewsArticle", "dateCreated": "2024-11-21T23:03:18+02:00", "datePublished": "2024-11-21T23:03:18+02:00", "dateModified": "2024-11-21T23:03:17+02:00", "url": "https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/22022/news/experts-weigh-in-on-rwandas-domestic-food-demand-outlook", "headline": "Experts weigh in on Rwanda’s domestic food demand outlook", "description": "Rwanda’s rising domestic food demand presents an opportunity for farmers and actors in the agricultural and livestock value chains, experts have said,...", "keywords": "", "inLanguage": "en", "mainEntityOfPage":{ "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/22022/news/experts-weigh-in-on-rwandas-domestic-food-demand-outlook" }, "thumbnailUrl": "https://www.newtimes.co.rw/thenewtimes/uploads/images/2024/11/21/64561.jpeg", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.newtimes.co.rw/thenewtimes/uploads/images/2024/11/21/64561.jpeg" }, "articleBody": "Rwanda’s rising domestic food demand presents an opportunity for farmers and actors in the agricultural and livestock value chains, experts have said, recommending accelerating efforts aimed at meeting the demand. The value of domestic food demand is projected to double from $6.5 billion (approximately Rwf8.9 trillion) in 2020 to $13 billion (approximately Rwf17.7 trillion) by 2040, according to the 2024 Rwanda Country Economic Memorandum report by the Government of Rwanda and the World Bank. Much of this increased demand reflects a shift in consumption from a diet high in cereals and beans to one consisting of more livestock-sourced products, horticulture, and processed foods and beverages, the pointed out. The increase also reflects more meals consumed outside the home, the report indicated. ALSO READ: How pop culture is driving growth of fast-food business in Rwanda Rwanda’s food trade has increased sharply and is dominated by regional partners. The report suggests that the shifts in food consumption constitute an immense opportunity for increased jobs. Jules Ngango, an agricultural economist and a lecturer at the University of Rwanda, told The New Times that the demand indeed represents opportunities for local producers who will be guaranteed with market for their agricultural products. The demand, he said, is also expected to boost Rwanda’s economic growth through increased national production, but he called for scaling up of irrigation efforts to realise this demand. “Apart from population growth, improvements in living standards, understanding of nutrition, and level of education make people change their consumption habits,” Ngango said, citing adoption of animal-sourced products and horticulture items such as fruits. What should Rwanda prioritise? Based on projected population growth and changes in dietary patterns, the World Bank estimates food demand over the next two decades is estimated to be more than twice that of Rwanda’s production capacity, necessitating about 34,000 square kilometres of arable land compared to Rwanda’s 12,400square kilometres even under quite optimistic yield growth assumptions. Birasa Nyamulinda, another agricultural economist and agribusiness lecturer at Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture (RICA), observed that this demand will be driven by an increase in purchasing power among the population, increased awareness about healthy products, and understanding the importance of animal-sourced products such as eggs, milk and meat, as well as fruits and vegetables in their consumption. To meet this demand, Nyamulinda said large-scale irrigation projects such as Gabiro Agribusiness Hubin Eastern Province are important, citing a focus on vegetables and fruits. “Investment should be made in post-harvest management so that the available produce is not wasted, but rather it is properly handled for sustainability in supply,” he noted. ALSO READ: Govt urged to leverage agric technologies to feed growing population Rwanda must also place focus on policies that boost productivity to meet the growing food demand, experts say. “Focus has to be put on the production of key food crops needed in the country such as rice, Irish potatoes, maize, fruits and vegetables, as well as livestock products,” Ngango said, adding that consistency of supply should be ensured and that policies that increase productivity should be put in place. Ngango suggested that there is a need to support large-scale farmers who can leverage the existingtechnologies, improved seeds, and irrigation mechanisms, to boost productivity. “Subsistence farmers who produce food on a small scale and own small land are not expected to meet the domestic food demand as it is difficult for them to the required technologies because of limited means,” he noted, adding that the focus should be on large-scale farming. ALSO READ: Agriculture land ‘must be protected’ to feed increasing population Farmers speak out For farmers, drought or shortage of rainfall, is one of the major challenges to food production. Marie Therese Uzamukunda, an Irish potato farmer from Bugeshi Sector, Rubavu District, told The New Times that while food demand keeps increasing, farm productivity is not sustainable in part due todrought. She is one of the farmers hit by a dry spell that started in May and ran through August in the district. “I was expecting to harvest 15 tonnes of Irish potatoes per a hectare, but I only harvested five tonnes,” she said of the dry spell impact. Uzamukunda highlighted that although irrigation would offer a solution, some parts of the country including Bugeshi in Rubavu have no access to water bodies, which makes setting up irrigation infrastructure costly. The World Bank shows in its report that the value of food imports rose from around $400 million in 2015 to $1.1 billion in 2022, or from 15.4 per cent of total imports to 22 per cent over the same period. The value of food exports rose by less, from $530 million in 2015 to $800 million in 2022, and the share of exports fell from 46.5 percent to 27.2 per cent. One driver of the increased food imports has been that the increase in food production did not keep pace with the increase in population. Intra-African food trade accounted for almost half of Rwanda’s total trade, with a sharp increase in recent years and the African market is likely to continue growing over the coming decades. To address the import-export imbalance, Birasa said that the country should identify and focus on agricultural and livestock products that can be produced locally at a relatively small cost, and only import those that would involve higher production cost domestically. Overall, he held, importing more foods than a country produces implies difficulties [such as pressure on its currency], calling for keeping momentum in the country’s efforts to set up infrastructure to boost local production. “It would not be good if the increasing [food] demand is satisfied by imports. So, we should look for ways to make sure that domestic production,” he said, citing irrigation among critical actions.", "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Emmanuel Ntirenganya" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "The New Times", "url": "https://www.newtimes.co.rw/", "sameAs": ["https://www.facebook.com/TheNewTimesRwanda/","https://twitter.com/NewTimesRwanda","https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuZbZj6DF9zWXpdZVceDZkg"], "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "/theme_newtimes/images/logo.png", "width": 270, "height": 57 } }, "copyrightHolder": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "The New Times", "url": "https://www.newtimes.co.rw/" } }

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Garry Clark scored 15 points as Texas A&M-Corpus Christi beat Stephen F. Austin 67-48 on Saturday night. Clark had 12 rebounds for the Islanders (6-4, 1-1 Southland Conference). Owen Dease went 3 of 3 from the field to add 10 points. Jordan Roberts had 10 points and shot 4 for 9. Nana Antwi-Boasiako led the Lumberjacks (5-5, 0-2) in scoring, finishing with 13 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks. Clayton Southwick added 10 points and two steals. Myles Jenkins had five points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that the U.S. military should stay out of the escalating conflict in Syria as a shock opposition offensive closes in on the capital, declaring in a social media post, "THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT.” With world leaders watching the rapid rebel advance against Syria's Russian- and Iranian-backed president, Bashar Assad, President Joe Biden's national security adviser separately stressed that the Biden administration had no intention of intervening. “The United States is not going to ... militarily dive into the middle of a Syrian civil war," Jake Sullivan told an audience in California. He said the U.S. would keep acting as necessary to keep the Islamic State — a violently anti-Western extremist group not known to be involved in the offensive but with sleeper cells in Syria's deserts — from exploiting openings presented by the fighting. Insurgents’ stunning march across Syria sped faster Saturday, reaching the gates of Damascus and government forces abandoning the central city of Homs. The government was forced to deny rumors that Assad had fled the country. Trump's comments on the dramatic rebel push were his first since Syrian rebels launched their advance late last month. They came while he was in Paris for the reopening of the Notre Dame cathedral . In his post, Trump said Assad did not deserve U.S. support to stay in power. Assad's government has been propped up by the Russian and Iranian military, along with Hezbollah and other Iranian-allied militias, in a now 13-year-old war against opposition groups seeking his overthrow. The war, which began as a mostly peaceful uprising in 2011 against the Assad family's rule, has killed a half-million people, fractured Syria and drawn in a more than a half-dozen foreign militaries and militias. The insurgents are led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham , which the U.S. has designated as a terrorist group and says has links to al-Qaida, although the group has since broken ties with al-Qaida. The insurgents have met little resistance so far from the Syrian army, the Russian and Iranian militaries or allied militias in the country. The Biden administration says Syrian opposition forces' capture of government-held cities demonstrates just how diminished those countries are by wars in Ukraine , Gaza and Lebanon. “Assad’s backers — Iran, Russia and Hezbollah — have all been weakened and distracted," Sullivan said Saturday at an annual gathering of national security officials, defense companies and lawmakers at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. “None of them are prepared to provide the kind of support to Assad that they provided in the past,” he later added. The U.S. has about 900 troops in Syria, including U.S. forces working with Kurdish allies in the opposition-held northeast to prevent any resurgence of the Islamic State group. Gen. Bryan Fenton, head of U.S. Special Operations Command, said he would not want to speculate on how the upheaval in Syria would affect the U.S. military’s footprint in the country. “It’s still too early to tell,” he said. What would not change is the focus on disrupting IS operations in Syria and protecting U.S. troops, Fenton said during a panel at the Reagan event. Syrian opposition activists and regional officials have been watching closely for any indication from the incoming Trump administration, in particular on how the U.S. would respond to the rebel advances against Assad. Robert Wilkie, Trump's defense transition chief and a former secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, said during the same panel that the collapse of the “murderous Assad regime” would be a major blow to Iran's power. The United Nations' special envoy for Syria called Saturday for urgent talks in Geneva to ensure an “orderly political transition” in Syria. In his post, Trump said Russia “is so tied up in Ukraine” that it “seems incapable of stopping this literal march through Syria, a country they have protected for years.” He said rebels could possibly force Assad from power. The president-elect condemned the overall U.S. handling of the war but said the routing of Assad and Russian forces might be for the best. “Syria is a mess, but is not our friend, & THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. LET IT PLAY OUT. DO NOT GET INVOLVED!” he wrote in Saturday's post. An influential Syrian opposition activist in Washington, Mouaz Moustafa, interrupted a briefing to reporters to read Trump’s post and appeared to choke up. He said Trump’s declaration that the U.S. should stay out of the fight was the best outcome that the the Syrians aligned against Assad could hope for. Rebels have been freeing political detainees of the Assad government from prisons as they advance across Syria, taking cities. Moustafa pledged to reporters Saturday that opposition forces would be alert for any U.S. detainees among them and do their utmost to protect them. Moustafa said that includes Austin Tice , an American journalist missing for more than a decade and suspected to be held by Assad. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham renounced al-Qaida in 2016 and has worked to rebrand itself, including cracking down on some Islamic extremist groups and fighters in its territory and portraying itself as a protector of Christians and other religious minorities. While the U.S. and United Nations still designate it as a terrorist organization, Trump's first administration told lawmakers that the U.S. was no longer targeting the group's leader, Abu Mohammed al-Golani. Copp reported from Simi Valley, California.

Fresh off the back of a humiliating 7-0 defeat against Benfica in the Taca de Portugal, Estrela Amadora journey to the Estadio de Sao Luis to face SC Farense on Friday. The Leoes de Faro side head into the midweek clash unbeaten in their last five games against the visiting side since August 2021 and will be looking to extend this dominant three-year streak. © Imago Farense booked their spot in the fifth round of the Taca de Portugal as they picked up a 2-1 victory over Arouca when the two sides squared off at the Estadio Municipal de Arouca last Saturday. Dario Poveda and Elves Balde scored either side of Alfonso Trezza 's 16th-minute equaliser to hand the visitors a first-half lead before they turned in a solid defensive display in the second half to see out the win. Farense now turn their focus to the Primeira Liga, where they have gone three straight games without a win, losing twice and claiming one draw, and have managed just one win in their last 14 matches, losing 10 and claiming two draws since mid May. Off the back of a 10th-placed finish last season, Toze Marreco 's men have stumbled into the 2024-25 campaign and find themselves rooted to the bottom of the league standings , having picked up just five points from their 11 league matches so far. Farense's slow start to the campaign has been owing to their struggles at the attacking end of the pitch, where they have scored the fewest number of goals so far (5) — one fewer than any other side in the division. © Imago Estrela Amadora, on the other hand, were condemned to their biggest defeat of the season last time out when they were thrashed 7-0 by Benfica in their Taca de Portugal fourth-round clash. Veteran forward Angel Di Maria turned in a clinic at the Estadio da Luz as he netted a hat-trick, including a fifth-minute overhead kick, while setting up one goal to inspire As Aguias to an emphatic victory. Prior to that, Farense moved out of the bottom three in the Primeira Liga on November 10, when they picked up a 2-0 victory over Nacional at the Estadio Jose Gomes courtesy of late goals from Paulo Moreira and Kikas . Jose Faria 's men have managed just two wins from their 11 league matches this season while losing six and claiming three draws to collect nine points and sit 15th in the table, level on points with 14th-placed Boavista and one point above 16th-placed Arouca. While Farense will be looking to bounce back from Saturday's humbling against Benfica, results away from home offer little optimism as they have failed to win any of their 15 games on the road since the turn of the year. Next up is the challenge of an opposing side whom they have failed to get the better of in any of their last five encounters, losing twice and claiming two draws since a 3-1 victory in August 2021. © Imago Farense remain without the services of veteran forward Tomane , who has missed each of the last eight matches since picking up an injury back in September. He is joined on the club's injury table by 25-year-old midfielder Filipe Soares , who is set to sit out his seventh consecutive game after coming off injured against AVS on September 30. With his strike against Arouca, Poveda now has a goal contribution in each of his last three games and the former Getafe man will be looking to deliver the goods once again. Meanwhile, Estrala Amadora remain without first-choice goalkeeper Bruno Brigido , who was forced off injured midway through the game against Nacional on November 10. Off the back of shipping seven against Benfica, former Porto man Francisco Meixedo should start between the stick, with Danilo Veiga , Ferro , Ruben Lima and skipper Miguel Lopes teaming up at the defensive end of the pitch. SC Farense possible starting lineup: Velho; Africo, Jorge, Moreno; Pastor, Falcao, Menino, Victor; Merghem, Poveda, Balde Estrela Amadora possible starting lineup: Meixedo; Veiga, Ferro, Lopes, Lima; Bucca, Jesus, Cordeiro, Nilton; Pinho, Cabral Off the back of a 7-0 hammering at the hands of Benfica, Estrela will head into Friday's clash looking to retire some pride and push clear of the danger zone. However, we predict Farense will do just enough to force a share of the spoils and extend their unbeaten run against Faria's men to six games. 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