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Armyworms have destroyed crops and pastures in 11 districts of Eastern Province.
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Posted: 2008-05-16 at 02:58
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has approved the utilisation of 1.65 per cent of the federation account as a special ...
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Posted: 2008-05-16 at 02:18
The Federal Government has initiated plans to boost rice production as a short-term measure by providing N10 billion credit ...
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Posted: 2008-05-16 at 01:51
THE Mengo establishment will set up three demonstration farms in each district in Buganda to enable locals learn modern ...
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Posted: 2008-05-16 at 01:41
Letters: A sustainable green revolution for Africa Guardian Unlimited Letters: The call for Africa to have an agricultural ...
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Posted: 2008-05-16 at 01:37
FCT minister, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar, has flagged off the sale of fertiliser in Kuje area council.
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Posted: 2008-05-16 at 01:30
NEW harvests have started flowing into Kampala's major markets but prices are unlikely to go down, a weekly survey has ...
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Posted: 2008-05-16 at 12:50
UGANDA earned $265m (about sh440b) in 2007 from coffee exports, making it the leading foreign exchange earner. A report by the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-16 at 12:50
AS PREPARATIONS for the winter crop gathers momentum, farmers have called on the government to probe how fertilizer finds its ...
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Posted: 2008-05-16 at 12:05
THE MATOPOS Research station has started a massive indigenous drought resistant cattle and goat breeding programme to assist ...
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Posted: 2008-05-16 at 12:05
The Grand Coalition Cabinet meeting on Thursday failed to reach a decision on how to handle Mungiki and other armed groups.
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 11:46
AFP Price-hit Burkina Faso tries new type Asian-African rice AFP - 3 hours ago "We've got everything else: the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 10:45
Pushing low-income farmers to use agricultural land for ethanol based fuels for use in the US and Europe? Quick update: ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 09:40
Look to the Genius of Small Farmers. Past innovations in agriculture forced farmers away from indigenous crops -- or off the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 08:58
"For example, last week the United Kingdom announced an $800 million, five-year package for agricultural research in ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 08:27
Some were multidisciplinary, but many specialised in fields such as nursing, teaching, agriculture or the arts. I had thought ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 07:25
Paul Nchoji Nkwi witnessed an “increased involvement of the social sciences in health, agriculture , animal, environmental, ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 05:09
Availability of good infrastructure- roads, power, water, housing, telephones- and stability, not tax incentives or free land, ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 04:12
Yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture invited tenders from millers and traders to import 17,383 metric tonnes of wheat flour ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 02:25
African food crisis: AfDB forms fertiliser fund to help fight food crisis Posted by sociolingo on May 15, 2008 Source: ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 02:21
A new NASA-led study shows human-caused climate change has made an impact on a wide range of Earth’s natural systems, including ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 02:11
Let us now turn to the humdrum subject of market research . One hears yawns, but South Africa is a country where research ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 02:01
--y-axis: % Agriculture . Note: Explain the relationship between these results and GDP. What are the Major Natural ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 01:59
The hospitalisation of 116 girls after consuming beans sprayed with harmful pesticides at a secondary school in northern ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 01:24
A number of scientific research papers on "greenhouse effects and its repercussions on population in Africa " will ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 12:15
Contrary to the claims of agribusiness, the latest agricultural research , including more than a decade of concrete experience ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 12:00
IIAM is an agricultural research institute jointly funded by the Government of Mozambique and private donors, including the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 10:48
World Bank shifts HIV/AIDS focus in Africa World Bank Group, DC - 31 minutes ago The Rural Development Administration ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 10:27
Malawi's tobacco industry has been in turmoil after wildly fluctuating prices led protesting farmers to force the closure ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 09:02
The Omaheke Region's communal farming community and livestock buyers have agreed that livestock purchasers continue to buy ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 08:22
The United States is responsible “many times more” than India for the world food crisis, said Ramesh Chand, an economist with ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 08:00
Government could scrap taxes on basic consumer goods like sugar and other essential items, in addition to mealie-meal in an ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 07:10
TopNews AfDB set to help regional member countries deal with food crisis ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland - 1 hour ago ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 07:01
The FAO Director-General is currently working on all continents to deal with the global food crisis, together with Member ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 07:00
A crop forecast by the Zimbabwean government that this year's maize production will fall short of the national requirement ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 06:29
This task is left to international organizations such as the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA), a joint program ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 06:22
The Global Food Crisis - Misconceptions and Facts AllAfrica.com, Washington - 2 hours ago As a result of the Common ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 04:59
Recently, a commentator published an article about the free market and food security on a much patronised Ghanaian news ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 04:57
FRANCHISE group Simply Asia said last week it aimed to have a national presence by 2010, with outlets in all of the major ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 04:48
TWO of the companies in the Private Investor portfolio have been in the media spotlight recently. At Afrox's annual ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 04:42
In order to stem the effects of the current national food crisis occasioned by the sharp increase in the price of rice, ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 04:20
The Global Food Crisis: Misconceptions & Facts Accra Daily Mail, Ghana - 44 minutes ago As a result of the Common ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 04:13
The Fertiliser Suppliers Association of Nigeria (FEPSAN) has commended the Federal Government for the procurement and ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 04:05
These figures all come from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which also claims that, of all the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 03:53
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, has ordered immediate commencement of execution of the first phase of multi-billion Naira ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 03:26
World Vision Rwanda will not be affected by cuts in food aid programmes by its parent organisation, World Vision International.
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 03:24
Rice production in Asia, Africa and Latin America is forecast to reach a new record level in 2008, FAO said today, warning that ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 02:49
Just like for other tropical products, the world tea market has seen a tendency for increasing supplies to run ahead of demand ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 02:49
South Africa : Land Claims Commissioner Criticises CDE Report As ... AllAfrica.com, Washington - 28 minutes ago In the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 02:30
The current world food crisis has brought about a lot of concern for nations, how to solve the problem and ensure that it does ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 02:28
Our journey to Bargoni village in Lamu District, about took us seven agonising hours.
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 01:43
A lady bargains for pineapples at Nakasero Market in Kampala. The price of the delicious fruit has more than doubled
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 01:21
THE soaring food prices have strained the budget of Makerere University, forcing the administration to cut down on ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 01:21
African countries, under pressure from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have removed subsidies on ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 12:58
THE Government has increased the budget of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) for the next financial year from ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 12:50
MINISTER of State for Commerce and Industry, Ahmed Garba Bichi, and the Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drugs ...
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Posted: 2008-05-15 at 12:15
Grain Exporting Countries of Africa to Mirror Crude Oil OPEC Boom The Market Oracle, UK - 1 hour ago In this week's ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 11:47
One of the biggest is the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research , which runs 15 research centers ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 11:41
WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008 Earth Negotiations Bulletin, NY - 1 hour ago Gerda Verburg, Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 11:06
Agriculture was neglected in favor of heavy industry as Mao Zedong’s government attempted to catch up to the West. In ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 08:37
A handful of the world's largest agricultural biotechnology companies are seeking hundreds of patents on gene-altered ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 08:33
The eviction of pastoralists in the mid western district of Buliisa has commenced, Daily Monitor has learnt. Buliisa RDC Ms ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 03:58
William G. Moseley: In search of a better revolution Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 23 minutes ago Global leaders are correct ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 03:37
The decision by Agriculture Minister William Ruto to freeze all sugar export licenses was long overdue and in the true ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 03:00
But as they witnessed soil depletion there, too, agricultural reformers such as WD Hoard, who had (like wheat) migrated from ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 02:08
Ramesh Chand, an Indian Council of Agricultural Research economist responded, “The United States is responsible many times ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 11:50
Mozambique: Private Investment Not Enough for Green Revolution AllAfrica.com, Washington - 19 minutes ago Speaking at the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 11:39
The starting point for development in Mozambique must be the rural areas, declared President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday.
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 11:37
Africa food crisis Burkina Faso: marchers protest against high food prices Posted by sociolingo on May 14, 2008 Source: ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 11:32
Subsidies to Western farmers have undercut agricultural production in fertile areas of Africa for decades, Kamal Nath, ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 11:31
... ignored in the past two decades, such as low investment in agriculture , especially irrigation, reduced funding for ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 11:20
Home to about 1.1 million people, Karamoja in northeastern Uganda is a harsh, semi-arid region largely inhabited by ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 11:05
Land redistribution is taking place far too slowly to meet the expectations raised by the government’s target that 30% of ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 10:29
The United States is responsible “many times more” than India for the world food crisis because of its higher food consumption, ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 10:24
African food crisis Burkina Faso: mixed support for strike Posted by sociolingo on May 14, 2008 Source: AlertNet ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 10:12
Along with Chairman Joe Biden (D-DE), he called for a “second Green Revolution” to increase agricultural research , ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 10:06
Africa food crisis: In search of a better revolution - Moseley Posted by sociolingo on May 14, 2008 Source: Star Tribune ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 10:04
Farm workers in Limpopo, who have been enduring long winter nights in drafty mud-houses, have received four bed-roomed houses ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 09:38
It still subjects its own Palestinian citizens to a system of institutionalized discrimination, strongly reminiscent of the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 09:34
This report was supposed to be the “big tent” laying out the consensus path for future agricultural research . The land-grant ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 08:50
A government decision to ban rice exports to cushion Madagascar against spiralling global food prices will bring temporary ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 08:45
In the long run, the United States should revitalize the organizational and financial efforts to boost agricultural research ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 08:17
Instead, President Mubarak focussed on calling for the expansion of wheat production in newly-reclaimed desert lands, while ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 08:07
Laboratory result of the poisonous beans eaten by students of Government Girls Secondary School, Doma, Gombe State, is out.
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 07:53
An alarm was sounded at the Pan African Parliament (PAP) over the global food crisis last week when a member asked the regional ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 07:52
It is remarkable that this bias within the agricultural establishment has survived the transition to South Africa , and ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 07:38
A SWAPO councillor in the National Council has called on Government to introduce food subsidies to mitigate the high food ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 07:23
Skyrocketing food prices coupled with increased food demand and shrinking global food stocks has forced the World Vision, one ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 06:36
Africa must avoid food export bans - Africa Development Bank Posted by sociolingo on May 14, 2008 Source: AlertNet MAPUTO, ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 06:31
Americans eat an average of 3770 calories per capita a day, the highest amount in the world, according to data from the UN Food ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 06:27
Government attempts to control food supplies to ensure that their people have enough to eat are hampering efforts by the World ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 06:26
Scientific research is progressing very quickly, he said, ''and in five years it will be possible to make biofuel ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 06:05
CHIEF Longers Anyanwu, the Imo Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, has called on natives to reclaim the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 05:53
Gov. Martin Elechi of Ebonyi has directed that all agricultural science graduates of the state origin be offered employment.
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 05:53
SCENES OF PEOPLE RIOTING over food prices in developing economies have become common over the past few weeks.
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 05:11
Wheat farmers in the Southern Rift Valley on Tuesday said they were unable to prepare their land for planting due to a serious ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 05:11
President Jakaya Kikwete yesterday ordered investigation on the sharp decline of Nile perch stocks in Lake Victoria.He said the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 04:49
About 100 hectares of maize farms belonging to the Wakira clan were destroyed by Wanchari warriors in Tarime District, Mara ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 04:49
GOVERNMENT has, with effect from Monday this week, suspended duty on imported basic goods for the next 90 days in a move ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 04:49
Seed giants see gold in climate change Asia Times Online, Hong Kong - 3 hours ago ... and Wheat Improvement Center and ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 04:29
ECONOMIC success for any given society depends largely on solid policies, especially in the field of agriculture.
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 04:28
RETAILERS are concerned that rising inflation could result in a drop off in volumes, which one retailer worries would hit the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 03:56
JOHANNESBURG, Apr 9 (IPS) - Representatives from countries, civil society and the private sector are meeting this week in ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 03:33
Communal farmers in five regions of the country can now improve their breeds after receiving breeding material from the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 03:10
THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has banned the sale and supply of 30 different ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 03:09
IN reacting promptly to our editorial of Friday May 2 2008 (Food Crisis - FG's N80b Deafness) by canceling the planned ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 03:09
The Full Belly project works to relieve hunger and create economic opportunities in developing countries through the design and ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 03:01
With the assistance of the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (Asareca), ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 02:58
I’m tentatively organising my thoughts into three main clusters: questions about the future of agriculture ; questions about ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 02:22
Succour has now come the way of farmers in the Federal Capital Territory as they not only have to get fertiliser at highly ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 02:12
Agriculture minister, Sir, permit me to use this medium to reach you. With the much hyped food crisis, one imagines that you ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 02:12
Stakeholders in the agricultural sub-sector of the nation's economy has concluded plans to brainstorm on how to boost ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 02:12
Following the improved enrolment, rentention and performance of pupils in the Federal Capital Territory schools due to the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 02:11
Katsina State Government has purchased 15,000 metric tones of fertiliser worth N1,540,200,000.00 billion for sale to the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 02:11
Federal government is to establish a N10 billion fund for cluster of rice production in the country under the new initiative to ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 02:10
As West African states join the rest of the world to battle the current food crisis, the speaker of the Economic Community of ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 02:10
Food costs to top agenda in Maputo Business Report, South Africa - 56 minutes ago "Expect the issue of food price ...
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Posted: 2008-05-14 at 12:23
Indians Find US at Fault in Food Cost New York Times, United States - 3 hours ago When it comes to trade, Western farming ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 10:07
The Miracle Fruit Plant, sometimes known as Miracle Berry, or Magic Berry (Sideroxylon dulcificum/Synsepalum dulcificum) is a ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 09:28
Expert: Corn production up around the world Quad City Times, IA - 1 hour ago “We are seeing that since 1961, we have doubled ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 09:26
WHDH-TV The rice crisis: What needs to be done? 4Hoteliers, Hong Kong - 2 hours ago Public investment in agricultural ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 08:12
The institute is a nonprofit, non-political organization that does agricultural research focusing on "smart crops" ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 04:57
The Age Food crisis adds 100M to ranks of hungry: experts Canada.com, Canada - 1 hour ago But it likely could have been ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 04:05
Texas' sweet sorghum farmers tap new ethanol source Houston Chronicle, United States - 12 minutes ago ... according to ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 03:47
Inequality and Survival. Kingston, Canada: Southern African Research . Centre, Queens University, 2006. Drayton, Arthur D. ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 03:47
Africa : High Food Prices Renew Interest in African Farming AllAfrica.com, Washington - 21 minutes ago The moves come after ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 03:38
Africa's agriculture sector is attracting new interest from donors and the international community as a global rise in ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 03:29
"That blacks weren’t allowed on to certain beaches (during the apartheid era of whites-only rule) can be changed overnight ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 03:19
WHDH-TV Making Sense of Asia's Food Quagmire OhmyNews International, South Korea - 3 hours ago In the long-term, ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 02:53
However, some current (“first generation”) biofuels, such as ethanol from grains and biodiesel from oil seeds, may compete with ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 02:37
CAPE TOWN, May 7 (IPS) - Is small the new big when it comes to agriculture in Southern Africa? As rising food prices ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 02:27
NAIROBI, May 9 (IPS) - The need to give agriculture top billing on governmental "to do" lists has been ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 02:27
The United States is responsible "many times more" than India for the world food crisis because of its higher food ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 02:15
“A major wheat disease which has recently been detected in Iran will be discussed at a workshop to be held on 10-11 March at ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 01:45
Developing rural financial services in Africa depends on infrastructures to link rural residents to financial institutions and ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 01:17
Citizens Research Council of Michigan - Chair International Visitors Council of Metro Detroit The Detroit Investment Fund New ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 12:44
US should go on diet of its own, India says International Herald Tribune, France - 3 hours ago Subsidies to Western farmers ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 12:06
Indians Bristle at US Criticism on Food Prices New York Times, United States - 2 hours ago When it comes to trade, Western ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 11:47
WHDH-TV Soaring rice prices a global danger, expert warns guardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour ago Zeigler blamed the shortage of rice ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 10:46
Koenders and Verburg boost agricultural funding for developing ... ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland - 1 hour ago The ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 10:37
Meat and poultry are the largest agricultural contributors to GHG emissions. LCA assessment counts the energy used to ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 10:25
When the dividends of democracy would reach ordinary Sierra Leoneans, as President Ernest Bai Koroma's dispensation ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 09:57
Uganda: Organic Exporters in DDT Scare FreshPlaza, Netherlands - 45 minutes ago For instance, local leaders in Bundibugyo ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 09:12
Brazil: efficiency key to green agriculture Spero News - 1 hour ago There is the bottleneck, admits Alfredo Barreto Luiz, a ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 08:18
Applicants for the Sierra Leone Police Force have alleged that lack of food and other resources are the reasons behind the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 08:15
National coordinator of Sierra Leone Israel Friendship Society (SLIFS) has reaffirmed Israel's commitment to boost the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 08:15
General Manager Fulladu East Agric project Friday said his organization has successfully embarked on a large scale of ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 08:15
Localised food systems - in the emergent food price crisis - would allow people to grow nutrition, income and economies ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 07:49
Other programs support trachoma research and program activities in 15 countries in Africa and Asia, employee training for ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 07:21
We did it before, we can grow our way out of famine again The National, United Arab Emirates - 38 minutes ago Consequently, ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 07:21
WHDH-TV Record rice yield expected, but prices will rise: UN Thaindian.com, Thailand - 3 hours ago ... including the low ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 06:35
Several hundred kilometres from the simmering conflicts between pastoralists and farmers [over natural resources] in ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 06:32
South Africans who are living below the bread line and struggling to make a life for their families are to benefit from a new ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 06:28
Thus, two-thirds of sub-Saharan Africa ’s people live in rural areas and rely on agriculture and other natural resources for ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 06:02
LEADERS of the Namibia Agricultural Union (NAU) under its president Raimar von Hase, the chairman of the Livestock ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 05:51
ABOUT 240 community members of Oshifo village near Ruacana are soon to harvest mahangu from three hectares planted with the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 05:51
ABOUT 11 farmers from the Kunene Region were trained in the intricacies of draught-animal power to teach others on the usage of ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 05:51
Corporations Grab Climate Genes Foreign Policy In Focus - 37 minutes ago ... Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and national ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 05:22
Tanzania: Experts Discuss Investments in Agriculture AllAfrica.com, Washington - 1 hour ago "With rising food prices, it ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 04:58
Experts from six African countries are discussing ways of attracting investments in agriculture.
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 04:49
Throwing the baby out with the bath-water OneWorld.net, UK - 1 hour ago Most agricultural research , at least until recently, ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 04:49
Scientists at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 04:05
HUNGER and poverty are, in general, consequences of inadequate and restricted access to land and other resources.
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 03:57
The Federal Govern-ment yesterday said it is targetting increasing the cassava production from its present 49 million to 100 ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 03:50
A traditional ruler in Zangon-Kataf local government area of Kaduna State, Dr Harrison Bungon, has commended the state ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 03:30
Global food prices will remain high in the near future, giving room for only temporary relief, says the International Monetary ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 03:00
Determined to avoid imminent food crisis and increase production, the Federal Government has fixed May 31, this year, as ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 02:27
New Kenya Cooperative Creameries posted a 65 per cent increase in milk delivered in the past one month.
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 01:58
Farmers in the Rift Valley lost more than 169,000 dairy cows worth Sh10 billion in post-election violence.
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 01:57
In spite of the various challenges that face farmers in Rwanda in their quest to increase crop yields and increase the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 01:15
AFP Researchers make biofuel with sorghum rather than corn ABC Online, Australia - 1 hour ago ELEANOR HALL: Agricultural ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 12:26
Relationships with Azerbaijan Should be Strategic – Interview with ... Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan - 3 hours ago At ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 12:24
The food crisis and the hybrid rice surge Grain, Spain - 1 hour ago During the 2006 Africa -China Summit, China agreed to ...
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Posted: 2008-05-13 at 12:14
Govt yet to decide on production of biofuel IPP Media - Guardian, United Republic of Tanzania - 2 hours ago ``Improving ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 11:45
Singapore-listed Wilmar Q1 net profit surges on robust demand UPDATE Forbes, NY - 56 minutes ago 'While global economic ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 10:08
UPDATE 1-Singapore's Wilmar Q1 net jumps almost 7 times Reuters - 8 hours ago "While global economic growth in 2008 ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 05:40
The So-Called Global Food Crisis: Misconceptions & Facts Modern Ghana, Ghana - 2 hours ago As a result of the Common ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 04:53
Uganda Commodity Exchange (UCE), a body charged with regulating and implementing warehouse receipt system. Joseph Olanyo talked ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 04:03
The US Government is concerned about the current soaring food prices and energy crisis Uganda is grappling with, the US ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 03:46
Warehouse receipts that farmers could receive following the inauguration of Agroways commodity warehouse by Uganda Commodity ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 03:46
Brocktown News Without more agricultural investment, prices will rise New Vision, Uganda - 1 hour ago One conclusion stands ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 03:17
More Camel Products Set for Galana Ranch AllAfrica.com, Washington - 7 hours ago The Agricultural Development Corporation ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 03:15
Grain production in the North Rift could plummet due to irregular rains that have caused uneven germination and withering of ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 03:14
Egypt has announced that it is to partner with its southern neighbour Sudan to till up to two million acres of new land to grow ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 03:14
The Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) is planning to stock camels in the million acre Galana ranch at the Coast.
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 03:00
Diageo, the largest multi-national beer, wine and spirits company in the world has unveiled plans to develop the cultivation of ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 02:22
Contrary to the claims of agribusiness, the latest agricultural research , including more than a decade of concrete experience ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 01:58
Though international observers had hoped Somalia's transitional federal government would bring stability to the
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 12:45
President Jammeh has vowed to keep the country's agriculture under his watchful eyes, saying that he would never assign ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 12:17
These figures all come from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which also claims that, of all the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 11:02
As the two feuding factions in the Bawku Traditional area- the Kusasis and Mamprusis continue to live under fear, there are ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 10:54
The problem was further compounded considering some 20 to 25 million young souls (mostly male) were taken from the continent of ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 10:11
NCSU names University of Illinois scientist to lead NC Research ... WRAL.com, NC - 57 minutes ago Lila currently is involved ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 10:01
Experts Tackle the World Food Crisis Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada - May 12, 2008 They will also offer concrete ways ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 09:55
Mrs. Gladys Asmah, Minister for Fisheries has announced that the Ministry of Fisheries is to contract a 40 million US dollar ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 09:27
One of the principal the first challenge for Cameroon is to produce more food. Yes, more food to feed its people at the time ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 09:12
The skyrocketing of prices has revealed other medium-term limitations, including the low level of investment in agriculture , ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 09:00
Stakeholders in the dairy sector in Cameroon met in Yaounde last Friday under the guidance of the Ministry of Livestock, ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 08:44
The injustices of the land issue in South Africa under apartheid are well documented. A programme of land reform since then has ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 08:41
Research and Markets: Gain Access to Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung), Germany - 19 minutes ago Eskom Holdings principal ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 08:39
The rural water project initiative, which resulted from the long-term bilateral co-operation between the governments of the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 08:27
The Age Rice production to reach record high in 2008, but prices to ... UN News Centre - 6 hours ago ... other medium-term ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 08:16
Global Biofuels has taken on a Nigerian specialist Babatunde Obilana, who spent 20 years with the International Crops Research ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 08:00
The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas on Friday, 9th May 2008 called for Israeli assistance in ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 07:56
The ministry of agriculture, forestry and food security and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) last week certified ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 07:56
In many African countries, women grow food crops like sorghum and millet using simple rain-fed agriculture techniques, while ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 07:39
CABINET has resolved to keep the total allowable catch (TAC) for pilchards at 15 000 tonnes, the same as last year.
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 07:33
President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal threatens to sue the FAO, accused of deducting 20 per cent of the aid funds collected on ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 07:29
Alh. Abubakar Wodi is the president of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria. A high profile farmer, Wodi lives in ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 07:22
A new major partnership where smallholder farmers and small agricultural enterprises will be helped with financing to build ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 07:09
Despite increased production of foodstuffs in Rwanda, the urban population is faced with soaring prices partly fueled by chaos ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 07:09
The Uganda government will import breeds of dairy cattle from either Canada or Australia to help boost a dairy sub-sector that ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 07:09
Good threshing Fund Strategy, UK - 38 minutes ago If Africa could acquire modern agricultural technology - along with the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 06:20
THE Action Congress (AC) has admonished the Federal Government to go beyond a short-term approach to the world food crisis by ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 05:37
INTERNATIONAL Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), a body representing 168 million workers in 155 countries of the world including ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 05:37
The truth is that if the The truth is that if the private sector must really be the engine of growth and also complement the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 05:37
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said last week it was forced to cut assistance to malnourished mothers and children in ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 05:20
The most worrying scenario in Africa today, as the hike in food prices ravage the world's poor, is not in the price of the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 05:05
The last few years have seen steep increases in food prices globally and this has been cause for grave concern, particularly in ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 04:56
12 May 2008 - Rice production in Asia, Africa and Latin America is forecast to reach a new record level in 2008, FAO said ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 04:56
THE Government's ward-based food distribution programme has gathered momentum in Bulawayo with residents expressing ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 04:49
THERE is much news in the global media recently about rising food prices, though it seems odd that food prices should shoot up ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 04:38
The shortage of wheat is likely to escalate this year because of the on-going disruptions to the winter wheat cropping season ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 04:30
An apex body has been launched to link together fresh producers in Tanzania. The Horticulture Development Council of Tanzania ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 04:23
IN my piece on the Baby and the Bathwater on April 20, I said of the claim that hunger may soon cause riots in Nigeria, ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 04:23
IT starts with a headache, joint pains and fever. It is the kind you would expect to get over quickly. But after a while, ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 04:22
The Government is set to unveil a major industrialisation programme to help alleviate poverty and spur economic development in ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 04:18
Farmers are increasingly taking to banana tending following the introduction of a variety that matures fast, is disease ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 03:31
Last week saw some big gestures, but small progress in the fight to tackle the soaring costs of food. But in the wash of ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 03:31
South Africa faces up to 'wage apartheid' Tehran Times, Iran - 1 hour ago Blacks dominate agricultural , rural ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 03:03
It is an open secret that Uganda's run-away inflation has rubbed us the wrong way given the increasing poverty levels with ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 03:00
The debate on the increase in commodity prices is still on. I have written about it before. But today I will take a different ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 02:51
For a couple of weeks now, President Museveni has been saying that the global rise in food prices is good for the Ugandan ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 02:51
A leading macadamia dealer has urged the government to fast-track a nut crop Bill to protect local farmers from unscrupulous ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 02:23
Chief Research Officer, National Cereal Research Institute (NCRI), Birnin Kebbi, Mr Ayodele Christopher Uwala, has said the ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 02:20
The recent decision of the Federal Government to import 500,000 tonnes of rice worth 80 billion naira from Thailand in response ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 02:19
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole has thrown his weight behind measures by the Federal Government to ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 02:09
Kwara State Govern-ment has said it would be ready to work with any private agricultural organisation as a way of addressing ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 02:09
Africa : UN Conference On Trade And Development AllAfrica.com, Washington - 54 minutes ago Sadly, UNCTAD missed an opportunity ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 02:03
Four Ways to Ease A Global Food Crisis Over the Next Year Wall Street Journal - 1 hour ago The current crisis represents a ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 01:14
Even as international efforts to find a solution to soaring world food prices continue, outspoken Senegalese President ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 01:08
FORMER Minister of Finance and presently a Director with the World Bank, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said Nigerians should not ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 01:05
ONE week after Myanmar was hit by a devastating cyclone, the death toll has risen to 22,997 according to international media ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 01:04
A toll-free mobile service being launched in selected remote areas in Africa promises to save lives by connecting people with ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 01:01
Africa : Continental Economic Outlook Launched AllAfrica.com, Washington - 7 minutes ago Barfour Osei, the ADB's Chief ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 12:50
Africa : A Green Revolution for Africa - Can It Be Made in Austria? AllAfrica.com, Washington - 8 minutes ago But Agra now ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 12:49
Africa : How Poor States Can Benefit From Rising World Prices AllAfrica.com, Washington - 10 minutes ago Since 2003, according ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 12:47
The world must invest now and in the long term in problem-solving agricultural research , the only solution to the growing ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 12:42
Barely three weeks since spraying of the controversial insecticide DDT to control malaria started in Uganda, the dispute ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 12:39
The deterioration of terms of trade is one of the historic factors behind underdevelopment, which should be understood not as a ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 12:39
East and Southern African countries are to build regional cross-border alliances to strengthen innovative market institutions ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 12:39
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (Ifad) have ...
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Posted: 2008-05-12 at 12:38
Food security is about people having economic and physical access to basic food. However, across Africa, there is an outcry ...
