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For us, it is hardly 200g per plant,” said Professor R. R. Shah, Navsari Agricultural University's dean of agribusiness, ...
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Posted: 2009-07-04 at 11:38
The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) established an office in Ghana in 2006, in response to growing ...
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Posted: 2009-07-04 at 11:35
NAIROBI, Jul 4 (IPS) - Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to the ...
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Posted: 2009-07-04 at 05:24
... 1990s] it has had a humanitarian food aid appeal, and more than four million people have received emergency assistance at ...
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Posted: 2009-07-03 at 11:19
KAMPALA, Jul 3 (IPS) - Africa must embrace agricultural biotechnology or risk being excluded from a major technological ...
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Posted: 2009-07-03 at 10:26
NAIROBI, Jul 4 (IPS) - Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to ...
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Posted: 2009-07-03 at 10:26
President Kibaki further called on all nations to strengthen and maintain their agricultural institutions for quality ...
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Posted: 2009-07-03 at 03:17
PETER Michael Hitschmann, the former police reservist who was jailed after the discovery of an arms cache on his property, was ...
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Posted: 2009-07-03 at 01:29
The methodologies in these two countries are relatively new and still evolving, but they have proven successful in providing ...
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Posted: 2009-07-03 at 12:56
It enables the ACP scientific community – primarily agricultural research and development scientists and technologists, ...
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Posted: 2009-07-03 at 12:56
International Institute Of Tropical Agriculture IITA Ibadan Job Vacancies Nigeria. IITA, International Agriculture Research ...
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Posted: 2009-07-03 at 11:31
GOVERNMENT'S restriction of live sheep exports to South Africa has been found to be illegal by the South African ...
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Posted: 2009-07-03 at 10:42
Instead, companies like Monsanto focus their research and development on traits that increase farmers' dependence on ...
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Posted: 2009-07-03 at 09:18
Successive governments in Nigeria have made several efforts to boosting agriculture and food production through the ...
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Posted: 2009-07-03 at 09:00
To better inform current research projects and identify priority areas for future activities and project development, we ...
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Posted: 2009-07-03 at 08:31
NyasaTimes Online is Malawi's award winning quality news source on the web offering breaking news and in-depth, analytical ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 11:00
Relief food distribution in Turkana Central is under threat due to a tussle between the area MP and some constituents over ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 08:04
He says climate change may cut agricultural output by half in lowland Africa by 2020. “In such a context, does migration ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 07:46
RUNAWAY FOOD PRICES GAVE the world a wake-up call last year. Two weeks ago, another alarm went off: UN food agencies reported ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 07:28
DAKAR - Under a new initiative international donors are backing Africa -based policy research to improve local ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 06:13
Mpumalanga farmers will soon have access to all the advice and technical facilities they need to make a success of farming.
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 05:02
Africa Rice Center (WARDA) is an autonomous intergovernmental research association of African member states. WARDA is also ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 04:55
Africa Rice Center (WARDA) is an autonomous intergovernmental research association of African member states WARDA is also ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 04:02
Africa Rice Center (WARDA) is an autonomous intergovernmental research association of African member states WARDA is also ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 03:35
The tea producers in Tanzania are confident of accessing export markets despite the global financial crisis.
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 03:12
Six Government ministries have delayed payment of Sh22 million owed to the northern branch of the Tanzania Agricultural ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 03:12
THE Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) has denied accusations that its members are buying maize at K35,000 per 50 kg bag ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 03:06
SOUTH Africa's agri-processing group Tongaat Hulett has announced plans to consolidate its Zimbabwe sugar operations in ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 01:57
ONE of the biggest problems facing Ugandan farmers is lack of technical information about their enterprises. They also lack ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 12:53
In yet another bid to eliminate poverty among the poor, the Vice President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, has gone into organic ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 12:53
SMALL-SCALE fish farmers in northern Uganda have received sh1.15b to boost their activities.
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 12:53
As an African Union summit on agricultural investments opens in Libya, donors and non-profits are calling participants' ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 12:17
Under a new initiative international donors are backing Africa-based policy research to improve local decision-making on ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 12:17
African leaders tackle continent's challengesSIRTE, Libya — Africa's leaders were locked in a heated debate ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 12:07
Red tunas, sharks, rays and cods may soon disappear from our tables. Negotiations are ongoing at the World Trade Organisation ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 11:55
A food scientist has asked the Standards Organization of Nigeria to begin standardizing agricultural produce to enhance their ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 11:53
This is that time of the year when reports about how well donors have performed in meeting their aid commitments are released. ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 11:47
Without a doubt I vote H.E. Bingu wa Mutharika, the President of the Republic of Malawi, one of the best performing African ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 11:43
Farmers in Kasambya sub-county, Kibaale district have rejected 15 friesian cows supplied under the National Agricultural ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 11:21
The former minister of agriculture, Kisamba Mugerwa, has urged government to seriously consider research as a vital component ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 10:59
This week Rwanda offered only 398,974 kilogrammes ,of tea on the Mombasa auction market compared to last week's 512,640 ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 10:53
America's agricultural sector is one of the greatest success stories in human history. In 1930, hunger still stalked the ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 10:28
CUTTACK - Though the union government is still to give a go ahead to the introduction of genetically modified (GM) food crops, ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 10:20
The fears of farmers that the adequacy of fertiliser will also be a problem this year has been dispelled by Governor Namadi ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 10:14
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday joined other Heads of State and Government from across the continent for the official opening of the ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 07:25
Some Masvingo teachers are allegedly demanding buckets of maize and sweet potatoes from students who fail to raise school fees, ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 07:25
However, the official theme of the meeting will be “Investing in Agriculture for Economic Growth and Food Security”. It is ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 07:18
The fungus has been a problem in regions of Africa for many years; it has recently "jumped" the Red Sea and ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 06:00
Over 700 of Africa's best agricultural research scientists crammed the arrival and departure lounges at Entebbe ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 05:00
Kenya will soon start confined field trials of a drought-tolerant genetically modified (GM) maize variety, in a project ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 03:00
Rangeland Ecologist Matt Rinella at the Agricultural Research Service Lab in Miles City, Montana has conducted a 16-year ...
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Posted: 2009-07-02 at 12:00
Chief Justice Evan Gicheru has appointed a three-judge bench to hear an application challenging a Sh96 million fraud case ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 09:38
Pigs, poultry and wild birds are being tested for the influenza virus. Livestock minister Mohammed Kuti said on Wednesday that ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 09:14
Herders look at the skeleton of a cow that died due to drought: Five people were killed on 27-28 June in a clash over pasture ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 08:32
The Zimbabwean government has announced new measures to boost local cereal purchases through its crisis-ridden Grain Marketing ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 08:32
It is right and proper that African Heads of State attending the 13th African Union summit in Sirte, Libya, occupy themselves ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 08:03
The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General today highlighted the benefits of investing in agriculture, which she stressed is ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 07:59
Africa's farmers need help to access loans, fertilizer and export markets to avoid future food supply crises caused by ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 05:06
As more than 300 million Africans - or about one third of the continent's population - face chronic hunger, donors must ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 04:13
Arab League (AL) chief Amr Moussa said in his address to the AL summit that the choice of the agriculture development and ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 04:09
Food and Agriculture Minister, Kwesi Ahwoi, yesterday showed how emotionally attached he was to the much talked-about Aveyime ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 03:45
It is simple, yet it served as a productive research agenda for other studies - - such as Michael Lofchie's comparison ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 03:04
As the race to move the food self-sufficiency initiative forward intensifies in all corners of the country, the nominated ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 03:04
More than one million hectares of land have been allocated to pastoralist communities in 240 villages countrywide.
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 02:15
Going by this year's rainfall performance and outlook reports issued by the meteorology department, most areas in Uganda ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 01:23
The adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops to off-set the current food crisis and increase the volume of agricultural ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 01:23
A strange disease which is threatening poultry farming in Kabarole District, Daily Monitor has learnt, has broken out. ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 01:23
Two years ago, Patrick Buteera, a farmer in Rakai District earned Shs3.5 m from cabbages. He bought more land, since then, he ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 01:16
Over 700 of Africa's best agricultural research scientists crammed the arrival and departure lounges at Entebbe ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 01:16
To improve the situation faced by impoverished family farmers, agricultural research should be focused towards helping the ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 01:16
Two international conferences took place in South Africa last month and at both conferences the small farmer was the main ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 01:16
In recent years, productivity has increased and costs constrained through the use of innovative technologies developed through ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 12:58
Prolonged drought in Karamoja region for the first half of this year has created a favourable environment for a bumper harvest ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 12:54
30 youths who completed a six-month training course at Kamenyamiggo were handed certificates at Kamenyamiggo District ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 12:47
A two days stake holder's workshop and launching of the Gambia-Senegal Sustainable Fisheries Project "BaNafaa" ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 12:21
THE chairman of Kuje Area Council, Mr. Danladi Etsu Zhin, Thursday subsidized by 50 percent, the prices of fertilisers meant ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 11:34
The African Union Summit taking place from today in Tripoli, Libya, happens within the backdrop of two major issues facing the ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 10:53
A FORENSIC investigation by the Gauteng agriculture department has uncovered that R81m of double payments were made to ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 10:01
THE matric endorsement (university pass) system should be revised because it deprived students with academic potential of a ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 10:01
Farmers in Katebwa sub-county, Kabarole district, have been given 6,000 coffee tree seedlings for planting under the Prosperity ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 09:33
Water minister Maria Mutagamba and ministry officials tour a valley tank in Lwemiyaga. More Irrigation schemes are needed
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 09:33
Preliminary research shows the impact that these environmental changes have on the mental and physical wellbeing of people. ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 09:24
A Zimbabwean research delegation from the University of Zimbabwe is in Accra, Ghana, for a three-day integrated agricultural ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 09:04
Zimbabwean farmers did well in the last season, more than doubling the maize harvest to at least 1,14 million tonnes,
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 09:04
FARMERS have called on the Government to intervene and deal with prohibitive fertilizer prices and enable them to farm this ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 09:04
OLIVINE Industries yesterday received a consignment of 4 000 tonnes of soya bean seed worth US$500 000 that was donated to ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 09:04
The workshop came at the right time when young professionals from developing countries involved in agricultural research ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 08:52
(ii) supporting COMESA in the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) by providing ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 08:45
AGAINST the general belief that Zimbabweans in exile were keeping their country afloat, a study in the southern Matabeleland ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 08:28
A Zimbabwean research delegation from the University of Zimbabwe is in Accra, Ghana, for a three-day integrated agricultural ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 07:51
The five mobile phone applications provide real-time health and agricultural information and a virtual marketplace for buying ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 07:04
The governing body of the United Nations trade and development agency has convened a meeting today in Geneva to highlight the ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 05:57
The Global Co-operative Development Fund (GCDF) has been created with long-term partner Deutsche Bank and is the first ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 05:00
Citing figures from the International Food Policy Research Institute, the expert said that Africa will need $32 billion to ...
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Posted: 2009-07-01 at 12:04
Kenya is one of the many African countries that are yet to increase their spending on agriculture, thereby stagnating the fight ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 09:35
To capitalize on this potential requires development and adaptation of new technologies but growth in public agricultural ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 08:29
Since then, I've had a chance to communicate with David Sullivan, a research associate with the Enough Project, about ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 08:07
Citing figures from the International Food Policy Research Institute, the expert said that Africa will need $32 billion to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 07:00
Robert Mugabe is set to take centre stage at the African Union Summit of heads of state this week where he will, ironically, be ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 06:46
The unity government has this week been urged to initiate moves to compensate tens of thousands of farm workers, who have lost ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 06:46
The County Development Fund, aimed at financing target projects in rural areas, has been politicized and needs rescue, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 06:26
African Agriculture Ministers have called on governments to increase financial resources for scientific research in order to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 06:00
In the latest issue of LEISA Magazine, two experts address this question: Victor Clottey of the Network to Support ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 05:58
The Chronicle has on several occasions called on government to pursue policies that would encourage the uniform distribution of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 04:07
Access and Dissemination of Knowledge in Agricultural Sciences and Technology – Mapping the Landscape and Major Challenges. ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 03:23
The moment long awaited, longed for, anticipated and cherished was at hand on Saturday, June 27, 2009 when hundreds of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 02:55
Funding also was provided by NASA, the National Institutes of Health, MSU's Environmental Research Initiative and the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 02:54
The Government of Liberia last Friday received a grant of a little over 8,000 metric tons of rice from the Government and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 02:42
About 15,000 people in the larger West Pokot district are in dire need of relief food assistance, Kitale ACK Bishop Stephen ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 01:59
The authorities in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland have urged the international community to come to its ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 12:07
SOLWEZI should diversify its economic development to avoid economic decline after mining companies cease operations, District ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 11:51
THE National Association for Peasant and Small Scale Farmers of Zambia (NAPSFZ) has formed an agricultural crop marketing ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 11:40
Recently the United States Senate in an almost unanimous vote passed a legislation that gives the Food and Drug Administration ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 11:38
Federal Government is determined to eradicate malnutrition of children under five years of age in the country in the next few ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 11:09
IF Government would review its employment policies, the number of employed Namibians would "improve dramatically," ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 10:58
GOVERNMENT should not use the taxpayer's money to help establish monopolistic companies, because this is contrary to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 10:58
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has approved members of boards for parastatals in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 10:49
ICT-enabled collaboration transforming agricultural science, research and technology. 16-17 June 2009. Workshop 3 at the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 10:48
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) director general, Jaques Diouf, highlihgted today the angolan government efforts in ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 10:40
The Consumer Protection Council (CPC) has charged Nigerian consumers, particularly farmers to stop consuming chemically-treated ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 10:28
GENEVA (Reuters) - Africa's farmers need help to access loans, fertiliser and export markets to avoid future food supply ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 10:10
Agriculture Research Institutes in Sub-Saharan Africa is another research facility on tertiary agricultural education. ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 10:02
Howard Schultz Chairman of US retail giant, Starbucks has been in the country as part of an initiative to boost coffee ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 09:49
Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein, the Al Shabaab chief in Mogadishu, showed reporters the expired foods including rice and flour ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 09:40
Government might not cash in on flower exports this year.
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 09:36
The 2009/10 budget affects every Ugandan, but impacts on various groups differently. The budget's emphasis education, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 09:25
A hailstorm destroyed over 1,000 hectares of crops in seven villages in Masira sub-county, Sironko district on Saturday. The ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 09:25
[68] comparison of sheep breeds in Europe and Asia shows significant differences between the genes of future research . An ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 09:01
US coffee retail giant Starbucks plans to start selling high grade Rwanda coffee that is fair-trade certified in its 800 ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 05:48
All case studies which focused on food production in this research where data have been reported have shown increases in per ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 05:19
An apt project, as ICRISAT is the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, dedicated to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 04:58
New CGIAR science council publication- “Aligning Global Agricultural Research Investments with National Development ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 03:16
A general description of North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia will be provided. The second part will be ...
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Posted: 2009-06-30 at 02:44
A researcher at the Sudan-based Agricultural Research Corporation, Eltayeb Mohamed Abdelgadir said in Egypt, burning ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 11:37
Africa . SILVER INSTITUTE LETTER- Silver Institute Letter, Suite 1138, 1001 Connecticut Ave, Washington, DC 20036. ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 11:25
Preliminary Belg Assessment Findings
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 09:54
Grand Kru County Representative to the National Legislature, Gbelamah Slopadoe said in order to successfully achieve the goal ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 08:15
Farmers in the Bobirwa constituency of Botswana have threatened to invade Zimbabwe if their government does not intervene in ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 08:13
The Eastern Cape Housing Department will on Friday hand over houses to five farm workers and shack dwellers working and living ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 08:04
Farmland covering more than 1,000 hectares is being sown with select seed of wheat in Mendefera sub-zone.
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 08:04
Could the drought-resistant crop cassava, grown primarily in the developing world and virtually unknown to U.S. consumers, be ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 05:51
Zimbabweans continue to face serious food shortages despite a significant improvement in the maize harvest this year and the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 05:00
THE state-of-the-art N$80 million Super Dairy farm outside Mariental hopes to increase its milk production from the current 18 ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 04:47
NAMIBIA has a revenue ace up its sleeve and therefore won't be pressurised into signing an interim economic partnership ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 04:47
Farmers in the Lake Zone region of Tanzania have joined in the fight to protect their cassava crop from deadly cassava ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 04:20
Preparations for the forthcoming annual Agriculture Show, Nane-nane to be held in Arusha August are complete. The fair ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 04:20
Sixty seven more animals were supplied daily on the average to Dar es Salaam last week. But meat prices remained at between ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 03:44
A Hanang farmer who lost a land case against his village leaders on Friday said yesterday he would appeal against the ruling by ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 03:35
THE Government has said that the delay by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to buy maize in some parts of the country is because of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 03:28
Hundreds of herders in North Eastern province are crossing the Somali border in search of water and pasture for their ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 03:24
The latest pay offer reduces the rural allowance for doctors without explantion.
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 02:58
Milk Farmers who have been awaiting payment for milk deliveries to the defunct Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC) must be a ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 02:33
As a sidenote, I think it's important to recognize that deep brick color falling over most of Africa , South Asia and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 02:00
Uganda's livestock population almost doubled in the last three years.
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 01:50
The Burundi government has launched a comprehensive programme to privatize its coffee sector, the country's biggest export ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 01:49
The stresses of climate-induced crop failures could be avoided if more small farmers in Africa also raised livestock, say ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 01:35
At least 245,000 tons of maize will be harvested in 2009 by peasants in the central Bié Province, in the framework of the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 01:07
The director general of the UN Food and Agriculture organization "FAO", Jacques Diouf, is arriving sunday on a ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 01:07
The sweeping scourge of global hunger, affecting one sixth of all humanity and now reaching a historical high, has expectedly ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 12:13
KYAGALANYI Coffee, one of the local leading coffee exporters, has installed a $75,000 (about sh165m) processing machinery at ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 11:43
EXPORT Trading Company (ETC) Agro Tractor and Implements Ltd has launched Mahindra tractors and farm equipment, promising to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 11:43
GOVERNMENT is concerned about the low prices farmers are being offered for their crops and President Mugabe has promised that ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 11:15
The applicant's research must focus on any of SEARCA's priority thrusts under the broad themes of natural resource ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 10:57
Ms Helen Nakiru sat quietly as she waited for her turn to get treatment and food for her one-year-old baby at a nutrition ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 10:49
FAMINE has started claiming lives in various parts of the country.
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 10:44
ON June 18, Syda Bbumba, while speaking at a dinner to mark the official cross-listing of Equity Bank Uganda on the Uganda ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 10:44
Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III, has urged the three tiers of government to show more commitment to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 10:18
Developing countries like Rwanda need to conserve as much water as it can sustain so as to counteract the problems of global ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 09:38
The Day was an opportunity to highlight the importance of agriculture in Africa where 80% of the population depends on ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 08:44
sengdeaune SIVILAY on June 29th, 2009 2:10 am. Dear, Sir/Madam I am sengdeaune SIVILAY. I graduate in Agricultural and I ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 08:41
THE rural women of Flagstaff in the Eastern Cape continue to feel the brunt of poverty, with most still fetching water from ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 08:12
It will highlight, and help deepen the involvement of farmers' organisations, private business entities and Africa's ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 07:48
This money I have in my possession is from an (OVER INVOICED) of Multi Billion Dollars Contract awarded to foreign firms here ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 07:37
More than 700 farmers in Mashonaland West Province and surrounding areas are set to benefit from a contract farming scheme ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 07:16
The trial of white commercial farmers accused of refusing to vacate Golden Acres Estate in Marondera, took a new twist last ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 07:16
THE First Family has set an example in agriculture production and this should be a major challenge to all beneficiaries of the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 07:16
To capitalize on this potential requires development and adaptation of new technologies but growth in public agricultural ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 04:03
The five mobile phone applications provide real-time health and agricultural information and a virtual marketplace for buying ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 04:00
Research . 6. Production. 7. Finance. 8. Human Resources. 9. Bibliography and References. Background of Lagos and Nigeria. ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 12:38
The findings were reported at the meeting in Maputo, where representatives from the Mozambican department of agricultural ...
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Posted: 2009-06-29 at 12:08
Africa has complex problems that plague agriculture and people's lives. We develop agricultural solutions with our ...
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Posted: 2009-06-28 at 10:31
She had long supported medical research , education, abortion rights and nuclear disarmament, and had encouraged her children ...
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Posted: 2009-06-27 at 11:42
At least ten people have been reported dead in ethnic clashes that occurred on Thursday morning at four villages in Rorya and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-27 at 03:56
Liu J, Bi Y, Qin K, Fu G, Yang J, Peng J, Ma G, Liu Q, Pu J, Tian F. Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary ...
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Posted: 2009-06-27 at 03:15
Ano PR WebSite :: Reclaiming 'useless' lands gives new lifeline to West Africa's sidelined women farmers. The ...
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Posted: 2009-06-27 at 12:15
Although the FAO is unhappy with the way these land acquisitions are taking place, calling them 'neo-colonism', the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 10:13
More than 1,300 families from the Southern region have moved to Golij sub-zone in Gash-Barka so as to lead a better farming ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 07:56
The elimination of deadly aflatoxin, which contaminates food crops in Sub-Saharan Africa, is a step closer now scientists have ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 07:09
Instead, 'over the past 40 years, African governments have worked to scale back large commercial agriculture .'[5] ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 06:28
The Eastern Cape Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has sponsored the reigning National Female Farmer of the Year, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 06:21
In Sub-Saharan Africa agriculture accounts for approximately 21 per cent of the continent's GDP and women contribute ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 06:06
Africa has complex most of all problems that nettle agriculture and people's lives. We uncover agricultural ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 05:22
... the FAO said in a statement today. “ Africa is better placed today to achieve rapid development in agriculture than ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 04:37
It is said any nation that cannot feed itself doesn’t being called a nation,” and this is what is fighting hard to eschew. To ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 04:32
Mozambican Energy Minister Salvador Namburete on Thursday invited foreign businesses to invest in producing biofuels in ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 04:26
THE Agricultural Scientific Society of Namibia (Agrisson) will hold its annual congress at Oshakati next week to discuss ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 02:56
The 18th ordinary session of the African Union's Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC), which opened on Wednesday in ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 02:55
In line with government's focus on rural development, traditional leaders can play a major role in the fight against ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 02:55
A US$125,000 project aimed at providing hundreds of nomadic pastoralists in northern Kenya with decent, environment-friendly ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 02:38
The Gambia River Basin Cashew Enhancement Project was last Wednesday launched at the Paradise Suits Hotel. Organised by the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 02:28
As the raining season enters its first days, farmers in The Gambia's farest region, URR, have massively turn to the land, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 02:28
In an extract from his forthcoming book Food Wars, Walden Bello critiques the orthodox views of economist Paul Collier on the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 02:27
African women play a critical role in ensuring the food security of the continent, writes Mary Wandia in the run-up to the 2009 ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 02:27
Malawi's emphasis on small-scale farming is responsible for that county's rapid turnaround, reports the Mail & ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 01:45
Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Paul Orhii, yesterday ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 12:39
The late start of Ethiopia's wet season and the unreliability of the rains could affect crop production this year and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 12:15
Persian Gulf states are working out land deals in Africa , Asia, and Eastern Europe. India has set up agricultural projects ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 11:26
In its policy to diversify agricultural produce, Urwibutso Enterprises a local industry has introduced carrot juice and passion ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 10:38
... for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas Syrian Arab Republic June 23, 2009. Head (Program Facilitation Unit CGIAR ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 10:29
Instead, 'over the past 40 years, African governments have worked to scale back large commercial agriculture .'[5] ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 10:07
The report notes that agricultural research and technological development in the US and Europe have increased notably in the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 10:00
IDPs depend on food handouts from the World Food Programme and other UN agencies
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 09:34
Dr. Agnes Kalibata, has emphasized the need for tight food safety standards, in the handling of food exports, if the country is ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 09:33
Africa has complex problems that plague agriculture and people's lives. We develop agricultural solutions with our ...
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Africa has complex problems that plague agriculture and people's lives. We develop agricultural solutions with our ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 08:59
Africa has complex problems that plague agriculture and people's lives. We develop agricultural solutions with our ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 08:59
What has the WDR 2008 got to tell about Indian agriculture ? Abstract: It has been almost 2 years since the World Bank ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 08:54
Farmers have been urged to commercialise their activities if they are to improve their household income and reduce poverty.
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 08:46
The Iteso have been urged to grow more oranges if they are to sustain the fruit factory that the Government is going to build ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 08:46
THE Greek embassy has donated foodstuffs worth US$150 000 to the mayor's cheer fund as part of Athens' humanitarian ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 08:32
A Kadoma farmer shot and killed a man he suspected of poaching at his farm.
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 08:20
THE horticulture industry needs at least US$25 million to establish and refurbish infrastructure, secure inputs and implements ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 08:20
Africa mourns Michael Jackson08:20 Africa joins the rest of the world to mourn the death of the King of Pop - Michael ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 08:18
Although the FAO is unhappy with the way these land acquisitions are taking place, calling them 'neo-colonism', the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 07:39
UGANDA is to start exporting sugar and rice to the European Union (EU) duty and quota-free, the state trade minister has said.
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 05:36
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is a not-for-profit organization formed in 2006 to work with African ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 04:16
Optimists expect innovation to bridge the gap, and it's possible that developments like genetic engineering and smart ...
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Posted: 2009-06-26 at 02:28
In our recent visit to India, my Cambridge colleagues and I visited the Microsoft Research India (MSR India) lab in ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 11:52
Preferred fields are: Agricultural Sciences; Business Studies, Management and Leadership Development; Economics; Education; ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 10:06
Carl Atkin, Head of Research at Bidwells Agribusiness looks at the recent interest in 'strategic food security' and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 09:51
“In dry West Africa , studies have shown that between 13 and 15 percent of children are suffering from acute nutritional ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 09:12
About four people were last Thursday wounded in violent clashes between the pastoralists and cultivators in Kiboga District.
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 08:51
A more than two fold increase in Zimbabwe's production of its staple, maize, in 2009 will not be enough to rid the country ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 07:31
Graft plaguing development programmes may be contributing to food shortage and malnutrition in north.
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 07:20
Institute of Development Studies Transforming Agriculture through Farmer-Centred Innovation Institute of Development ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 07:00
With the present demand of rice on the Liberian market, a consignment of over 84,000 metric tons of rice has been donated by ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 05:30
The death toll in banditry attacks in Northern Kenya has reached seven, prompting Prime Minister Raila Odinga to order the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 05:00
Despite returning to villages after almost a decade in camps for the displaced, many northern Ugandans are struggling to revive ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 04:26
Although agricultural production has increased this year, with the maize crop to have more than doubled, high food insecurity ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 04:10
THE REFUSAL of some owners of livestock, at Tindongo in the Talensi-Nabdam District of the Upper East Region, to vaccinate ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 04:02
Economist Migration and climate change A new (under) class of travellers Economist He says climate change may cut ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 03:49
Minister of agriculture, forestry and food security has said that human development comes from food security.
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 03:48
To develop the Brong-Ahafo Mango Value Chain for the region to be identified as a major quality mango producing centre in ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 03:32
The banana crop in Uganda is in danger of extinction as a disease known as banana wilt destroys plantations in about 43 ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 03:30
Native holly can provide caffeinated, antioxidant-rich beverage ... University of Florida More research is needed to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 03:05
Niger: Reclaiming 'useless' lands gives new lifeline to West ... ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland The ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 03:05
CFR Fellow Peter Navario discusses the leveling off of South Africa's AIDS epidemic and its ability to step up
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Kenya: World expert in bio-technology to receive honorary degree. FreshPlaza, Netherlands She then joined the Kenya ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 02:45
While the authors don't elaborate on how different fertilizers impact soil and agriculture (organic agriculture has ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 02:27
GOVERNMENT plans to either sell off or slaughter the livestock of Gam farmers who invaded the Nyae-Nyae conservancy would lead ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 02:25
The stresses of climate-induced crop failures could be avoided if more small farmers in Africa also raised livestock, say ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 01:55
RURAL development is moving up on the government's agenda. Its heightened profile appears most obviously in the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 01:23
The Challenges of Communicating Science: A Journalist's Perspective Africa Science News Service, Kenya It is a bigger ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 01:22
Unpredictable rainfall patterns, low harvests and the displacement of people during last year's post-election violence ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 01:21
Locust swarms have migrated from northwestern Somalia and spread to seven regions of Ethiopia, but have so far caused minimal ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 01:07
STRATEGIC FOOD SECURITY? International Supermarket News, UK It has often been said that despite a projected doubling of its ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 12:02
Canadian officials say that the airborne fungus, known as Ug99, has so far proved unstoppable, making its way out of eastern ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 11:28
AGRICULTURAL firm NWK says new business opportunities and high commodity prices have significantly boosted its results in the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 10:09
Spain has pledged 262 million Euros to strengthen regional integration in West Africa . An amount of 240 million Euros would ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 09:55
Selling Schering Plough, Looking to India, Brazil and South Africa Seeking Alpha, NY Brazil gets extra points for locking up ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 09:34
High food insecurity persists in Zimbabwe in spite of improvements in agricultural production and a more liberal import policy ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 08:52
Increasing food shortage remains a serious concern in the north and eastern Uganda. According to the Uganda Humanitarian Update ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 08:44
The global hunger crisis poses a serious risk for world peace and security. Currently, hunger affects one out of six people ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 08:41
The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) is investigating the development of a system of nanofilters ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 08:38
The government is providing cheaper credit lines to Ethiopian entities to produce agricultural products for export to India. ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 05:02
Globe and Mail Israel looks to Canada as model to better integrate Jews Globe and Mail, Canada The Palestinian uprising led to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-25 at 02:47
The Forgotten Rokupr Agricultural Research Station in Sierra Leone ... Standard Times Press, Sierra Leone The colonialists ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 10:45
World wheat production threatened by fungus National Post, Canada This is quite the deal," said Rob Graf, a research ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 09:22
Efforts to alleviate poverty among youth in Gulu Municipality have been foiled by unknown arsonists who on Monday night set a ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 09:04
Canada.com Fungus threat hangs over world wheat production Canada.com, Canada This is quite the deal," said Rob Graf, a ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 09:01
The Minister of State for Water, Hon. Namuyangu J. Byakatonda, says the hygiene and sanitation situation in Karamoja needs ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 08:58
New York, June 23 - Recovery from the global economic downturn is already in sight for agriculture , with strong commodity ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 07:42
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation Spain, ECOWAS take steps to bolster ties Modern Ghana, Ghana By gna Abuja, June 24, GNA- Spain ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 06:11
I'm using my research time to decide between several strong international investments, with a focus on India, Brazil, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 05:22
Worries about agricultural production due to uncertainty existing in monsoon kept the sentiments weak. Further, benchmark ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 04:38
Gerald C. Nelson, a Senior Research Fellow at the US-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), makes a case ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 02:38
Petro-chemical giant Sasol has been challenged to make up to farmers for colluding on fertiliser prices.
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 02:32
United Nations-backed emergency efforts have successfully contained a massive Red Locust outbreak in Tanzania and upheld the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 02:08
Dr Babagana Ahmadu, the country representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations in The ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 01:58
Amadou Saine, deputy permanent secretary, Ministry of Fisheries, Water Resources and National Assembly Matters, yesterday ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 01:58
Thornton's research suggests that raising drought-hardy camels could be a viable option for some 20 to 35 million people ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 01:08
This research paper investigates the patterns of agricultural productivity growth in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 01:07
The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) is said to be creating conditions that may strangulate the activities of logging ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 12:04
Bong County Electoral District # 6 Representative Edwin Juah is unhappy with the continuous criticism of Liberia’s Poro and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 12:00
Rural teachers contributing to the advancement of Liberia’s dangling educational system have lamented their conditions and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 11:47
Study highlights massive imbalances in global fertilizer use Media Newswire (press release), NY “Both China and the European ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 11:38
Cross River State has signed an agreement with Tolao Energy Limited, a Canadian firm, on the production of bio-diesel in the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 10:44
The National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) has expressed concern over the poor enrolment in the nation's ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 10:43
THE Government has advised farmers and business houses in Mumbwa to apply new technologies to maximise production.
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 10:16
World expert in bio-technology to receive honorary degree. Media Newswire (press release), NY She then joined the Kenya ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 10:14
Following a successful business forum organized by the Gambia Tourism Authority (GTA) in collaboration with the Gambia Hotel ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 10:02
As producers of food, farmers have a right to question the rationale behind Uganda's fast growing population. The ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 09:26
Regardless of the global financial crisis that is threatening Rwanda's exports, the refined pyrethrum market is still a ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 09:24
Eastern and northern Uganda are set to become leading fishing regions, the fisheries state minister has said. Fred Mukisa said ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 09:19
OVER sh7m could have been lost by National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) officers in a goat procurement deal.
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 09:18
A drowning man will clutch at any straw for survival. So were the farmers in Mukono district when they embarked on planting ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 09:10
DRESSED in rubber sandals, torn clothes with a hoe suspended over one shoulder and a machete in one hand, Mark Lochoro marches ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 09:10
PRICES of tobacco have continued to firm around US$3 per kg as the 2009 selling season entered its eighth week.
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 08:27
IITA, with Headquarters at Ibadan, is an International Agricultural Research Centre in the Consultative Group on ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 07:53
MicroCapital Monitor. We can email you everything you need to know about microfinance news, research , events and key players. ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 05:00
Will the "Green Revolution" Ever Hit Africa Truth about Trade & Technology, IA Joseph DeVries, a plant ...
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Posted: 2009-06-24 at 01:09
Global Food Crisis Waits to Return The Epoch Times, NY As populations expand and move away from agricultural -based economies ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 10:30
Institute for Middle East Understanding Africa -Israel under scrutiny for settlement construction Institute for Middle East ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 07:28
Several dozens of roaming pigs have been slaughtered in Bong County after they were found to be contaminating water and posing ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 05:29
Officials from the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations and ministries of Fisheries and Agriculture, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 03:27
A major goal in our national development blueprint, the Vision 2020, is food self-sufficiency. Presently, the country ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 03:27
EMERGING farmers can again deepen their knowledge on successful commercial farming methods tomorrow, when Agra is presenting ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 03:01
Thousands of nomadic pastoralists in the self-declared republic of Somaliland have abandoned their drought-affected villages ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 03:00
The company has begun construction and in the process, orchards and agricultural lands belonging to the Palestinian village ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 02:55
Most high profile public claims, especially by politicians that agriculture is the mainstay of Uganda's economy can at ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 02:53
Non-farm jobs fell by 2,1% in Q1 – Stats SA Creamer Media's Engineering News, South Africa The number of people ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 02:41
The UPDF is to withdraw the majority of its soldiers who have been guarding cattle at communal kraals in Karamoja. The army ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 02:39
Arua, Masaka, Lira, Isingiro and Kabale are among the 15 districts that are to benefit from a government plan to boost ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 02:39
Finance Minister Syda Bbumba has challenged Equity Bank, the newly cross-listed company on the local bourse and other financial ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 02:27
THE rehabilitation of 128 rural roads on the Copperbelt covering a stretch of over 1,373 kilometres under the Rural Roads Unit ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 01:51
FAO/MAFF trains 7o agricultural researchers Awoko, Sierra Leone The CAADP programme is part of the New Partnership for ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 01:22
The Angolan government intends to release about USD 120 million to fund the projects of drinking water supply to the rural ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 01:02
A group of MPs met Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni and resolved to explore diplomatic options to resolve the dispute ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 12:58
The rains have failed again, and residents of Kitui West in Eastern Province have been hit hard by the dry spell.
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 12:58
A food festival conjures up all sorts of images, imponderables and a whole lot of queries. For starters, the most pressing ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 12:57
ActionAid Sierra Leone has marked 21-yrs since it started operations in the country with a determination to fight hunger by all ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 12:56
Diversified chemicals company Omnia is proving the value of investing in high growth markets in Africa . Despite unfavourable ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 08:26
Spain, ECOWAS Take Bold Steps to Deepen Their Ties ISRIA, France According to the a communiqué issued at the end of a special ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 06:26
Saving the planet from global warming warming The Guardian - Nigeria, Nigeria This erosion, they say, can in vulnerable ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 05:10
Hundreds of protestors in Somalia's capital Mogadishu have protested about the lack of food and water in displacement ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 03:56
Land grab or development opportunity? International farmland deals ... 2711, South Africa Over the past 12 months, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 03:20
You've Been Told a Lie Daily Kos, CA "Corporate interest in agriculture and the way agriculture research has ...
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Posted: 2009-06-23 at 01:44
AT least six people, mainly children, have died after eating poisonous cassava in Amuru and Gulu districts since the World Food ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 09:03
The company has begun construction and in the process, orchards and agricultural lands belonging to the Palestinian village ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 08:35
East Africa risks losing a vital asset by failing to see the true value that pastoralists bring to national economies and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 08:32
Buddhist monks are believed to have taken the mango on voyages to Malaya and eastern Asia in the 4th and 5th Centuries B.C. The ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 08:31
In comments to the international media Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has once again moved to downplay the severity of the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 08:23
Over 1.7 million herds of cattle, goats and sheep have been earmarked for mass vaccination against various animal diseases in ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 08:03
The Ngorongoro district in Arusha region is still facing serious food shortage despite recent distribution of 2,300 tones of ...
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Small and Big Efforts Both Belong in Food Security Drive CRDI, Canada Since the boost in food production known as the Green ...
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Developing world communities could become part of the multi-billion dollar carbon market if a project to assess the amount of ...
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In particular, Diouf stressed the importance of investing in agricultural production and productivity in poor countries, ...
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Farm scientists work on new strategies for pomegranate Business Standard, India L Manjunath of University of Agricultural ...
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The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is one of a network of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research ...
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CBS News One Sixth of Humanity Is Hungry - UN OneWorld.net, UK In particular, Diouf stressed the importance of investing in ...
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Kebbi State government has introduced newly improved seeds to farmers as a way to tackling desert encroachment and soil ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 03:27
A Member of Parliament yesterday accused directly, the minister for Finance and Economic Affairs Mr Mustafa Mkulo and his ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 03:19
Residents forced a flower farmer to fill-up a tunnel he had dug to siphon water from the fast-drying Lake Naivasha.
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 03:12
Nigeria: UBA Bags Farmers Bank of the Year Award AllAfrica.com, Washington The International co-ordinator of the Africa ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 03:07
The United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) has been adjudged as Western Nigeria's agric farmers' bank of the year 2008.The ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 03:01
Study highlights massive imbalances in global fertilizer use innovations report, Germany "Both China and the European ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 02:40
Unlocking the potential of a massive stretch of savannah spanning 25 African nations could boost commercial farming on the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 02:34
The president of the Republic, Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh, last evening gave out 14 tractors, distributed on ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 02:10
The Food and Agriculture Organisation, in collaboration with Youth Action for Food Self-Sufficiency and Education, a local NGO, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 02:09
Local producers are likely to miss out on a global earnings bonanza as the current coffee crop season draws to an end.
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 02:07
Fresh produce exporters could face new hurdles as the European Commission embarks on crafting new policy regulations on the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 02:07
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) woke up to its responsibility to ensure the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 02:06
The national agriculture sector will harvest 12,000 tonnes of coffee during the 2009 campaign, in comparison to the 5,000 ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 02:02
Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe; Bunda College of Agriculture , Malawi; Egerton University in Njoro, Kenya; Makerere ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 01:05
A cash-fuelled dispute between cooperative unions and their apex body is stifling the planned revival of Uganda's ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 12:39
An increasing number of Africans living in urban areas are finding it harder to put enough food on the table, the UN Economic ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 12:36
TWO WEEKS AGO, ANOTHER ugly incident of cattle-rustling was witnessed in Isiolo. Six people, five of them police officers, were ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 12:16
Kenyan farmers might care to learn a lesson or two from their counterparts in Sirisia constituency in Bungoma whose fortunes ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 12:16
The World Grain Forum that took place in St Petersburg from June 6-7 is one in a series of high-level meetings devoted to food ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 12:16
Agricultural research and development is the key to increased agricultural productivity. For Africa to increase ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 12:08
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) claims that its "stress breeding", high-yield seed program and ...
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AS farmers from the Gam area consult with lawyers on what action to take over Government's confiscation of their ...
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... Kone Anatole, and Jacky Nyagahima for “Connecting people to catalyze African agricultural innovation-Regional ...
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Horizon, an agro-based company has turned away from processing coffee owing to low prices on the international market, an ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 10:08
The National Agricultural Research Institute branch in Lethem, Region Nine will be increasing collaboration with the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 09:50
The agribusiness giants who have developed and patented GM crops have long argued that their mission is to feed the world, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 09:38
Lack of coordination between urban and rural land authorities hampers land management in Botswana, according to a Botswana ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 09:24
Business is thriving at the Botswana Horticultural Market, which was established eight months ago. The majority of products ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 09:24
Some crop varieties could disappear in the next 10 years due to climate change, agricultural experts have warned.
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 07:18
Nine-month-old Lochoro's arms have reduced to the size of a stick. His eyes are sunken and the skin scaly and pale. ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 07:13
STATE minister for urban development Urban Tibamanya has urged local leaders to monitor their procurement committees to ensure ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 07:13
THE country's major dams are still more than 90 percent full at the peak of the winter cropping season and four months ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 06:43
Zimbabwe's detractors have over the years falsely claimed that the decline in the country's food production is a ...
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Zimbabwe should invest heavily in irrigation and move away from relying on rain-fed agriculture if the country is to counter ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 06:42
ZIMBABWE must consider conservation agriculture as a necessity and not a matter of choice in its farming systems to make ...
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ZIMBABWE'S yield for the forthcoming farming season is set to improve as smallholder farmers in the country are set to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 06:42
THE Grain Marketing Board has started buying maize from farmers after securing US$1 million from its financiers through the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 06:30
THE African Seed power house, Seed Co has posted a turnover of US$54 million for the year ended March 31, 2009 from US$52 ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 06:30
LIRNEasia Lead Economist Harsha de Silva was recently appointed to a five-member Scientific Advisory committee for a two-year ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 02:48
But there's nothing recent about the Rockefeller Foundation's involvement in the research and development of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-22 at 12:26
UB partners Pitzer College in vaccine collaborative project Sunday Standard, Botswana The plant vaccine project will not only ...
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Posted: 2009-06-21 at 09:36
Industrial clusters and innovation systems in Africa : institutions, markets, and policy / edited by Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka ...
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Posted: 2009-06-21 at 09:05
The Associated Press Iran buying more from US in spite of tensions The Associated Press The latest trade figures reflect an ...
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Posted: 2009-06-21 at 07:10
Symposium on pomegranate from June 23 Times of India, India Agriculture minister sa Ravindranath will preside. The symposium ...
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Posted: 2009-06-21 at 06:59
The project development objective is to enhance regional specialization in agricultural research and to facilitate increased ...
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Posted: 2009-06-21 at 05:12
Poor countries, Diouf stressed, "must be given the development, economic and policy tools required to boost their ...
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Posted: 2009-06-21 at 02:35
A Healthy Dose of Funding for Pharma, Biotech Seeking Alpha, NY The products will be manufactured by Dr. Reddy's and will ...
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Posted: 2009-06-21 at 12:41
The Associated Press US exports to Iran up in Obama's first months The Associated Press The latest trade figures reflect ...
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Posted: 2009-06-21 at 12:20
General: The Africa -based, globally networked International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) helps reduce poverty, ...
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The Marketing Advisor will work on improving the efficiency of pertinent supply chains through market research and ...
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and Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) introduced the Global Food Security Act, which increases funding for agricultural research in the ...
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Boost agriculture aid Kansas.com, KS The United States is uniquely suited to support international efforts for agricultural ...
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In a St. Paul lab, scientists race to defeat a wheat famine 'time ... Pioneer Press, MN "It didn't draw a lot ...
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Posted: 2009-06-21 at 05:07
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist trading bloc in the late 1980s dealt a heavy blow to North Korea's ...
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Posted: 2009-06-21 at 03:18
Jim Martin-Schramm wrote a case study about GMOs in Africa . Of all the articles and case studies I've read on the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-20 at 10:06
Using Weather Satellites To Predict Epidemics? NPR Dr. Ken Linthicum, director of the USDA's Center for Medical, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-20 at 09:31
A fresh report from International Livestock research Institute in Nairobi tells us that one million km2 will be sterile in ...
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It based its estimate on an analysis by the U.S. Department of Agriculture . Asia and the Pacific, the world's most ...
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Joseph DeVries, a plant geneticist who oversees AGRA's seed research , told a New York Times reporter that the world has ...
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*Keeping abreast of, analyzing news about African agriculture *Critiquing competing agricultural paradigms *Encouraging, ...
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The Africa Rice Center is an autonomous inter-governmental research association of 22 African member States. It is also one ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 11:39
CAPE TOWN, Jun 20 (IPS) - The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) claims that its "stress ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 10:26
Scientist Live Subsidized Fertilizer: The Answer to Africa's Food Crisis? Truth about Trade & Technology, IA ...
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Further afield, Africa is making giant moves to adopt biotechnology as a tool to raise agricultural productivity, farm ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 09:21
Sorghum varieties discovered by Ethiopian scientist register ... Ethiopian Review, DC The minister, who was earlier head of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 07:39
UN Report: One in six people will suffer from hunger by the end of ... HotNews.co, Romania FAO's forecast is based on a ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 06:18
Scientist Live Fertilizer Divide: Too Much, Not Enough New York Times, United States “Both China and the European Union have ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 05:42
G8 inaction is contributing to hunger spiralling out of control with more than the equivalent of Italy and Canada being added ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 04:53
Africa is a totally different situation than China,” said Mr. Sanchez, director of tropical agriculture at the Earth ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 04:44
Food shortages in parts of Uganda are approaching crisis level after subsistence farmers sold their produce for cash, officials ...
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Joseph DeVries, a plant geneticist who oversees AGRA's seed research , told a New York Times reporter that the world has ...
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BXW has devastated plantations in the central, western and southern regions of Uganda, Wilberforce Tushemereirwe, head of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 01:18
Valid claimants with farming experience/skills are assisted through transfers of unused/government land, or ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 01:02
'HUNGRY people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence," said mid-20th century ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 12:54
Tired of seeing prices for their crops undercut by US and European producers who receive billions of dollars in government ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 12:17
Doornbach shack dwellers who saw their shacks demolished in April but were then able to rebuild them after the City of Cape ...
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THE Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) has asked the Government to audit all millers who benefited from maize subsidies to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 11:42
The Japan International Award for Young Agricultural Researchers. The purpose of this Award is to increase motivation among ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 11:17
Illela Local Government in Sokoto State has acquired 6,000 bags of assorted fertilisers for sale to farmers at subsidised ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 11:14
Mr Festus Onogwu, Chairman of Ogige Market Amalgamated Traders Association, Nsukka (OMATAN), has pledged the association's ...
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The Federal Government will soon start regulating the activities of fish farmers and traders in the country, Mr Akinsola Amire, ...
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THERE is need to increase investment in agriculture and ensure redistribution of economic benefits if all Ugandans are to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 09:32
FAO has begun procuring inputs in preparation for the distribution of agricultural input packages to 150 000 smallholder ...
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THERE is need to adequately resource the Grain Marketing Board so that it can protect vulnerable rural farmers from being ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 08:42
THE decline in Zimbabwe's crop production should not be attributed solely to the country's land reform programme, but ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 08:41
TOBACCO farmers selling their crop at the floors should take advantage of their presence in Harare to visit the Tobacco ...
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THE fertilizer industry is set to benefit from a US$60 million line of credit to be made available by Afreximbank for the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 08:41
The Western Cape produces enough food to feed everyone in the province, yet an alarming 22 percent of adults report that they ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 08:23
Jeffrey Sachs' Misguided Foreign Aid Efforts Huffington Post, NY Imagine my surprise when, rather than propose some kind ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 07:40
Oil spills, gas flaring and deforestation have stripped previously agricultural fertile land of its environmental resources, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 06:52
But there's nothing recent about the Rockefeller Foundation's involvement in the research and development of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 05:22
Only Zimbabwe and South Africa had higher rates of tuburculosis infection than Cambodia in 2007. "We need, therefore, to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 04:13
Financial Mail (South Africa ) - December , Financial Mail: AGEING. The future looks GOOD AGEING The future looks GOOD By ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 03:47
In order to effectively capitalize on the potential of radio and video technologies in Africa , the study recommends ...
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Posted: 2009-06-19 at 02:44
Nutrient Imbalances in Agricultural Development Science Magazine (subscription) Agricultural nutrient balances differ ...
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AN Oshakati businessman was arrested on Tuesday after he was allegedly found with more than 200 bags of maize meal reportedly ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 10:18
COMMUNITY leaders in the Khomas Region were up in arms yesterday over the eviction of a pensioner's family from a farm ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 10:18
Under a new NASA-USDA collaboration known as the Global Agriculture Monitoring Project, Bolten and colleagues from the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 09:57
The President of Cashew Nuts Association of Nigeria (CNAN), Mr Tunji Owoeye have urged the CBN to properly supervised the ...
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THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and major stakeholders in the Agriculture sector yesterday urged ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 09:38
Britain, the United States, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are already renting farmland in Africa , Latin America and Russia. Rich or ...
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BXW has devastated plantations in the central, western and southern regions of Uganda, Wilberforce Tushemereirwe, head of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 08:39
Persian Gulf states are working out land deals in Africa , Asia, and Eastern Europe. India has set up agricultural projects ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 08:30
Hermodson Named Interim Director of Ag Research Programs Hoosier Ag Today, IN Prior to his current ARP position Martin was ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 08:08
Global Land Grab Foreign Policy In Focus Persian Gulf states are working out land deals in Africa , Asia, and Eastern Europe. ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 07:56
Although no official assessment has been carried, it is feared that the recent downpours have wrought havoc on crops in the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 07:20
Scientific American Subsidized Fertilizer: The Answer to Africa's Food Crisis? Scientific American Ephraim Nkonya, an ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 07:19
Several dozens of roaming pigs have been slaughtered in Bong County after they were found to be contaminating waters and posing ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 06:56
Development of the institutional framework in Kenya: The KARI now has a bio-transformation lab where skilled scientists can ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 06:33
PhysOrg.com Study highlights massive imbalances in global fertilizer use EurekAlert (press release), DC "Both China and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 06:05
This paper investigates the impact of climate variability on maize yield in the Limpopo Basin of South Africa using the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 04:46
(Date:6/18/2009)... outcomes in Africa over the long term, the contin...ened and expanded at the individual, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 04:09
GOVERNMENT'S seizure of cattle belonging to farmers from the Gam area who invaded the Nyae-Nyae Conservancy last month is ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 03:33
The Bank of Mozambique signed on Wednesday with the French Development Agency (AFD) a financing agreement under which the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 03:31
THE Otjimbingwe Farmers' Association has been revived after being dormant for several years.
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 03:12
Cattle Sales in Namibia Take Place Regularly Through Cattle Auctions With Auctioneers As Middle Institutions, Or Through ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 03:12
East Africa : Banana blight puts livelihoods at risk FreshPlaza, Netherlands BXW has devastated plantations in the central, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 03:02
Don't Be So Quick to Sell Off the Farmland Jakarta Globe, Indonesia The country's agricultural sector could be ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 02:49
Government remains committed to strengthening its support to commercial farmers, says Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 02:40
As part of her undivided resolve to complement The Gambia Government's efforts in national development, especially in its ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 02:03
A 50-YEAR-OLD man carrying a black book suddenly rides into the compound. "I am a busy man," Godfrey Kizito Kiwugu ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 12:32
FOOD shortage has hit the Teso sub-region and other parts of eastern and northern Uganda, the area MPs have said.
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 12:13
The Angolan Firm for the Conservation and Trading of Perishable Products "FRESCANGOL", has invested at least USD ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 12:12
ALTHOUGH they are famous for growing the best cotton and maize in Uganda, the Bakonzo farmers of Kasese district are making ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 12:04
guardian.co.uk Katine farmers harvest first cassava crop guardian.co.uk, UK Although Uganda's research scientists often ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 11:34
My lab focuses on genetically engineering rice to give it resistance to diseases and flooding, both of which are serious ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 11:30
Despite the availability of fertile arable land in Nigeria, the nation still spends over $1billion and $2billion on the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 11:12
This year 2009 farm season was recently launched by the Irepodun Local Government Area (LGA) of Osun State, with the aim of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 11:07
In the wake of the current global economic meltdown, most countries - including Nigeria - are tightening their belts and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 11:07
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has formed a strategic partnership with the Jigawa State Government in the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 11:07
Around the world, various strategies are being employed to cushion the effects of the global financial crisis tearing apart the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 11:07
Typically they include the departments of home affairs, labour, social development, health, and the GCIS, the South African ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 10:59
Elizabeth Dayton and Robert Mullen, Environment and Natural Resources, have been awarded $75193 for their project “Linking Soil ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 10:54
Uganda: Bio-Technology Can Boost Small Farmers' Incomes - Experts AllAfrica.com, Washington "In the coming years, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 10:51
SMALL-HOLDER farmers' incomes can increase if they adopt genetically-modified (GM) crops, a director at the International ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 10:40
Oil spills, gas flaring and deforestation have stripped previously agricultural fertile land of its environmental resources, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 10:36
CAPE TOWN, Jun 18 (IPS) - Development in Africa should be boosted through labour-intensive production on small to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 10:26
Development in Africa should be boosted through labour-intensive production on small to medium-sized farms. To advance food ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 10:09
At the level of South-South co-operation, we are responsible for the implementation of the India, Brazil and South Africa ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 09:42
... fruit and vegetables, rice, maize or any other emerging agricultural product. "We say people are welcome to come ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 09:26
PREMIER Foods Western Cape regional director Terrence Lavery yesterday laid bare details of collusion between bakeries to fix ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 09:20
On river basin and coastal management issues in the Incomati-Maputo Basin in Southern Africa , four positions related to the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 09:16
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has developed an innovative technique of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 09:12
The chairman of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Mr. Kofi A. Annan has called for the development of key ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 08:39
Reuters Ghana AFRICA : ''Boost Development Through Labour-Intensive Farming'' IPS, Italy AGRA is a Kenyan ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 08:28
On river basin and coastal management issues in the Incomati-Maputo Basin in Southern Africa , four positions. On urban water ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 08:23
HARARE City Council on Tuesday adopted the report of the special committee it appointed to probe illegal cattle sales and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 07:28
A reduction in agricultural production can be attributed to two major factors: shortage of essential inputs and unfavourable ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 07:27
ENVIRONMENT and agriculture experts have urged the Government to enact laws that promote the productive use of farming ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 07:24
Govt. tackles poverty with N6b grant to research institutes The Guardian - Nigeria, Nigeria "He noted that the poorest ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 04:45
"Fresh vegetables from Africa " have for several years been one of the main focuses of environmental and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 04:20
Financial Mail (South Africa ) - February Financial Mail: HEALTH. Let's work this angle HEALTH Let's work this angle ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 03:22
NASA Uses Satellite to Unearth Innovation in Crop Forecasting DirectionsMag.com, IL Under a new NASA-USDA collaboration known ...
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Posted: 2009-06-18 at 01:20
"We've got to do something serious about agriculture and we've got to start now," agrees Gerald Nelson, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-17 at 11:52
The government invested US $4 billion (Rs 19000 crore) on agriculture , horticulture and sugar estates in the African country ...
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Posted: 2009-06-17 at 10:51
To consolidate on its successful agriculture financing over the past 50 years and to enable it provide high quality financial ...
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Posted: 2009-06-17 at 10:03
In Africa , 80% of the population is rural, and there are 33 million small farms (those farming less than 2 hectares), ...
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Posted: 2009-06-17 at 09:44
Oil spills, gas flaring and deforestation have stripped previously agricultural fertile land of its environmental resources, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-17 at 08:16
Researchers Say Africa Needs "Genetic Prospectors" io9, CA The problem, as research report author Marshall Burke ...
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Posted: 2009-06-17 at 07:59
US: Govt Report Calls for Swift Action to Avoid Climate Chaos IPS, Italy Anne Schrag, who headed up studies in the Northern ...
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Posted: 2009-06-17 at 07:48
There will be plenty of food available, but getting hold of it will become a long-term problem as the unfolding economic ...
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It will take at least ten years to develop a variety of staple grain that will survive in the climates caused by global warming ...
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The Africa -based, globally networked International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) helps reduce poverty, hunger and ...
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The Africa -based, globally networked International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) helps reduce poverty, hunger and ...
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AFP Warming may outstrip Africa's ability to feed itself: study AFP Over 40 percent of Africa's population lives ...
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The problem of hunger in Africa today has very little to do with seed quality, and a great deal to do with poverty, chronic ...
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The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has budgeted over R22 million for the envisaged National Youth Service ...
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In order to effectively capitalize on the potential of radio and video technologies in Africa , the study recommends ...
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Current CARD members include AGRA, FAO, the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), the International Rice ...
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Reclaiming 'useless' lands gives new lifeline to West Africa's ... Africa Science News Service, Kenya The ...
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African farms becoming too hot to handle New Scientist, UK "We've got to do something serious about agriculture ...
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Inefficient production, bad infrastructure, poor access to markets, a lack of capital investment: the challenges facing ...
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Tanzania Forum To Facilitate Local Debate On Agricultural Biotechnology - One more step towards bringing the debate on ...
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UNICEF Country Representative Tuesday disclosed that five million United States dollars have been donated by the Canadian ...
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Posted: 2009-06-17 at 12:32
FARMERS in the Caprivi Region say incidents of wild animals destroying their crops are on the increase.
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Posted: 2009-06-17 at 12:19
The bacterial banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW) disease will endanger the livelihoods of millions of East African farmers if left ...
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Posted: 2009-06-17 at 12:11
... fruit and vegetables, rice, maize or any other emerging agricultural product. “We say people are welcome to come ...
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AGRICULTURE AFRICA : Questioning Old Traditions Inter Press Service, Italy But should we sacrifice Africa's agriculture ...
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If you insist that Africa must embrace a rigid take-it-or-leave-it market economy model; then, correct the imbalances in ...
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Posted: 2009-06-17 at 11:06
CAFNR researchers study the effects of drought by making their own Media Newswire (press release), NY Another area of emphasis ...
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Momodou Marr, the deputy governor of North Bank Region has said that there is a need for individuals and international donors ...
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It is 11:45am on a hot Tuesday. Seven-year-old Adiga Otavio is rummaging through the bushes behind a classroom block in Yumbe ...
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PARLIAMENT yesterday adopted a motion calling for the timely distribution of agricultural inputs to disadvantaged rural farmers ...
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GOVERNMENT has mobilised US$1 million in conjunction with banks to support grain buying by the cash-strapped Grain Marketing ...
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Partnership tackles Eskom Ingula project conservation issues Creamer Media's Engineering News, South Africa Drummond ...
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EAST AFRICA : Banana blight puts livelihoods at risk IRINnews.org, NY BXW has devastated plantations in the central, western ...
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Tanzania Forum To Facilitate Local Debate On Agricultural ... Africa Science News Service, Kenya At the heart of ...
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ANTANANARIVO, Jun 17 (IPS) - The southern part of the island of Madagascar is suffering severe drought and famine. Lack ...
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The southern part of the island of Madagascar is suffering severe drought and famine. Lack of rainfall during the summer season ...
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Safe drinking water is a scarce resource in Madagascar. Considerable financial investment is needed to improve sanitation and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-17 at 06:17
Armed gunmen attacked a convoy of 27 boats carrying United Nations food aid to thousands of displaced persons in Southern ...
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Posted: 2009-06-17 at 05:57
AT least 40 white commercial farmers have been recommended to get offer letters under the land reform programme in Masvingo, as ...
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For starters, an agricultural research institute is to be set up in the district of Vavuniya. The first choice was ...
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Bongo's extensive research has led him to conclude that the earliest humans evolved in Africa some three million years ...
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AGRICULTURE & INDUSTRY IN AFRICA In Africa , the population is exploding - from what I have been able to gather it is ...
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Posted: 2009-06-17 at 02:54
African Union Emphasises Children's Survival THISDAY, Nigeria The exceptions to these provisions are where the child is ...
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Sheep were one of the earliest animals to be domesticated for agricultural purposes, which occurred sometime between 11500 to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 11:07
A regional tribunal in Namibia has referred a controversial Zimbabwean land case to the next Southern African Development ...
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Bolivia Becoming a Hotbed of Islamic Extremism FOXNews In the past year, Iran has made some large investments in the ...
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... of the crucial role of agriculture in alleviating poverty in Africa and the pivotal importance of public investments in ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 10:14
The research team, led by Durham University (DU) and including BirdLife International looked at the effects of climate change ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 08:27
The world financial and economic crises slightly affected the concession program of micro-credit for family agricultures ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 07:39
Capital FM World Bank gives Kenya Sh2.5b for agriculture Standard, Kenya By John Oyuke The World Bank has approved a Sh7 ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 07:13
After a protracted court battle of seven years, a small South African environmental organisation won a major legal victory ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 06:35
Secretary of state for rural development, Filomena Delgado, considered recently in Kicombo, Kwanza Sul province, that investing ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 03:36
It is always distressing to see the way and manner our youthful sellers handle fruits on the streets of Accra, especially when ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 03:31
Meles stresses need for transforming agriculture -bio energy ... Walta Information Center, Ethiopia Opening the second ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 03:10
ENVIRONMENT: GM Should Not Just be Dismissed, Nor Just Accepted IPS, Italy "In South Africa the department of science ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 02:43
The back to the land call by His Excellency the president, Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, in his unending food ...
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Examiner.com Monsanto's dubious ad campaign Examiner.com Take Monsanto, an agricultural company whose bread and butter ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 02:13
Akissa Bahri has worked in the field of agricultural use of marginal waters (brackish and waste water), sewage sludge and ...
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VACANCY DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP Title: Transport of dissolved organic matter from soils to surface water in agricultural areas: ...
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Environmental Health News Pesticides linger in homes, whether we use them or not. Environmental Health News, VA Chlordane – a ...
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Agriculture is now mentioned," said Gerald Nelson at the International Food Policy Research Institute. ...
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This year, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated that 850 million people do not get enough food to eat in the ...
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"Land is scarce and will become scarcer as the world has to double food output to satisfy increased demand by 2050," ...
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USING draught animals like oxen, donkeys and horses for ploughing increases the yield of crop fields while disturbing the soil ...
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THE Namibia Farmworkers Union (Nafwu) has warned farm owners to start adhering to a new minimum wage agreement, warning that it ...
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GOVERNMENT has begun confiscating the cattle of farmers from Gam who invaded the protected Nyae-Nyae conservancy at the ...
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The Regional Project on Sustainable Management of Endemic Ruminant Livestock in West Africa (PROGEBE) will from Thursday18th to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 09:40
Despite Ocir-Thé efforts to increase tea production by 35,000 metric tonnes by 2012, prices of tea, and coffee have increased ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 09:21
G8 Lead Up Slow food, Italy The groups key recommendation to the G8 Ministers was to increase investment in agriculture . ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 08:45
THE Iranian Embassy yesterday donated 22 tonnes of maize meal to disadvantaged students in the country.
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 08:38
Put cash in the hands of the poor guardian.co.uk, UK Last year's dramatic rise in food prices focused political attention ...
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Crop scientists fear the Ug99 fungus could wipe out more than 80% of worldwide wheat crops as it spreads from eastern ...
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THE President has criticised European countries and the United States for their policy of protectionism, which blocks African ...
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Posted: 2009-06-16 at 05:50
Global Food Production Plummets in 2009 (with chart) Natural News.com, AZ Less well-publicized but equally devastating ...
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Another award-winner with an African connection is a joint US/Chinese cooking stove scheme that is bringing social and ...
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The AfricaAdapt network, funded by the DFID/IDRC Climate Change Adaptation in Africa Programme, announces the launch of a new ...
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“It didn't draw a lot of attention, frankly,” said Marty Carson, research leader at the Cereal Disease Laboratory, part ...
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Posted: 2009-06-15 at 11:27
The National Youth Association for Food Security (NaYAFS) recently concluded a five day training workshop, at the Agricultural ...
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Tefera Deribew, middle, minister of MoARD had to spend more than an hour at the AGRIFEX II stopping at each booth accompanied ...
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Posted: 2009-06-15 at 08:41
Farmland has been distributed to 50 families of fallen heroes in the Gedged administrative area in She'ib sub-zone.
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So it's predominantly not to acquire huge tracts of land,” Raju Poosapati, vice president food and agribusiness research ...
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Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa has slammed a SADC Tribunal ruling, meant to put a stop to the ongoing wave of farm ...
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Norway's Yara sees higher fertiliser prices 2010 Reuters India, India The economic crisis has dampened global consumption ...
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Attempts to "alleviate" poverty and hunger and boost African economies are futile if the needs and potential of ...
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Laboratory Lifeline: Alabama's International Center for Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development. The Research by ...
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World Bank lends $90 mln for E. Africa agriculture Reuters The bank said agriculture accounts for two-fifths of Gross ...
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Industry, mining, and power generation together consume another 12.5 percent and agricultural irrigation accounts for around ...
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Africa : Radio, Video Key to Agricultural Innovation AllAfrica.com, Washington The Africa Rice Center is an autonomous ...
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A farming project known as Emergency Initiative to boost rice production in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions has ...
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The sea side resort of Hammamet is hosting the 6th Mediterranean Export Farming and Husbandry Exhibition "PAMED ...
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SUFFICIENT and good quality nutrition is the cornerstone of development, it is said.
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One of the villagers injured during last Sunday's violent confrontation at Vunjo MP Aloyce Kimaro's farm at ...
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It is surprising when the economy of Ghana has seen no significant development despite the policy strategies and investments ...
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Kigali City Council and the Ministry of Agriculture will construct a new market that will specialise in sale of fruits and ...
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Following the emergence of Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, scientists the great lakes region ...
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Rwanda's fertile soils, favourable climate and abundant cheap labour force are some of the untapped driving forces for the ...
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Kenya's 2009/10 budget is more of geared towards stimulating development in the rural areas and neglected sectors of the ...
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Uganda spends about Shs120 billion (US$500 million) in importing rice.
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The Director of the Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust in Zambia, Dr Stephen Muliokela, has urged Namibian farmers to ...
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The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry is expected to pronounce itself on the implementation of the double ear tagging ...
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The most compelling interactive Africa community, sharing news, photos, weblogs, videos, mobile reports and the untold ...
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Most of the country's remaining white commercial farmers are no longer interested in farming and will give up their land ...
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A Chegutu magistrate has ordered the eviction of 36 farm workers from Maridadi Farm to make way for employees of a new farmer ...
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Zimbabwe's consumers spend most of their money on utility bills, which shot beyond the reach of many following the ...
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Designing, planning and sites supervision are central to architecture and these projects, for several years, were Architect ...
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Doran Ali Osman, administrator of Rahaita, one of the most southerly villages on Eritrea's Red Sea coast, zips up his ...
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Africa means business iAfrica.com, South Africa For example, Nigeria bears comparison with Brazil in agricultural ...
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After the inspection by experts from the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) across the country, Rwanda has now been ...
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It called for training programmes that would allow African research students to stay in Africa or study in other developing ...
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THE debate that surrounds the suitability of imported genetically modified (GMO) foods in Zimbabwe has never been fiercely ...
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Apparently determined to tow the line of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), which has consistently ...
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The increase in malaria has coincided with a recent boom in population growth in developing nations where children are exposed ...
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Trade and Industry Minister, Neo Moroka has revealed that Botswana's beef is in such high demand in Europe that supply is ...
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Capital FM World Bank Approves US$90 million for East Africa's Agriculturral ... Webnewswire.com, India The World Bank ...
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Abrupt global warming could shift monsoon patterns, hurt agriculture innovations report, Germany That resulted in much lower ...
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Prime Minister, Bernard Makuza and a team of cabinet ministers, last Friday advised Gicumbi District residents to consolidate ...
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Posted: 2009-06-15 at 09:32
The national schools feeding programme last week received a major boost of 23 hybrid cows, from the World Food Programme (WFP).
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OF late many markets are facing food scarcity, resulting into high food prices. Paul Kabagambe, a data analyst with ...
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Posted: 2009-06-15 at 09:24
Farmers Urged on Wondrous Fertilizer Tree - by Wezi Tjaronda New Era, Namibia WINDHOEK – The Ministry of Agriculture , Water ...
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President Obama, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in coming weeks will begin ...
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British travellers made around 20000 travel insurance claims in South Africa in 2008 totalling an estimated £5.51m, according ...
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Profound knowledge of agricultural research systems, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (sub-regional organisations, NARS, ...
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MEMBERS of Alpine Honey Producers have signed an agreement with the Uganda Wildlife Authority to allow them start bee-keeping ...
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It calls for training programmes that would allow African research students to stay in Africa or study in other developing ...
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“Any increase in livestock must be managed sustainably,” said Carlos Seré, Director General of ILRI, which is one of 15 ...
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Study Africa in Uppsala - Study scholarships: The Nordic Africa Institute, which encourages research and studies on ...
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Challenges and prospects of involving Nigerian youths, scientists ... BusinessDay, Nigeria Apart from those directly involved ...
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Posted: 2009-06-15 at 02:04
But when he pontifically stakes the dubious claim that under the so-called AMSEC program, agricultural machinery and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-15 at 01:39
Tunisia, the most competitive African country TMCnet Tunisia and South Africa , in particular, are characterised by high ...
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Leaders Say Africa Can Dramatically Boost Agricultural Production istockAnalyst.com (press release), OR (Source: Info-Prod ...
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Posted: 2009-06-14 at 07:01
The hungry still watch and wait Financial Times, UK Thurow and Kilman are journalists who have covered famines in Africa ...
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Posted: 2009-06-14 at 06:26
"But our research shows there are many areas in Africa where over the next few decades climate vulnerability coupled ...
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Posted: 2009-06-14 at 11:11
Radio, Video Key to Agricultural Innovation in Africa , New Study PR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria The Africa Rice ...
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Posted: 2009-06-14 at 10:36
Capital FM Kenya gets Sh6b from WB to boost agriculture Capital FM, Kenya The new project will consolidate and scale up the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-14 at 09:30
University World News RWANDA: Improving S&T; key to speeding up development University World News, South Africa A series of ...
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Professor Gebisa Ejeta Wins 2009 World Food Prize American Chronicle, CA Ejeta also has worked with national and local ...
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A global alliance of inter governmental agencies social movements, research organizations, and national and international ...
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The wheat stem rust, whose spores are carried by wind across continents, was previously found in East Africa and Yemen and ...
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New brooms report for duty The Times, South Africa She has a BSc in chemistry and botany and has also completed an MSc in ...
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Posted: 2009-06-13 at 08:57
These include some 6.4 million farmers in the cotton-growing areas of China, an estimated 1 million small farmers in India, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-13 at 07:07
Upon completing his graduate degree, Dr. Ejeta accepted a position as a sorghum researcher at the International Crop Research ...
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Posted: 2009-06-13 at 04:52
Depraved Injustice and the Privatization of the Global Freshwater ... Dissident Voice, CA As a result of an epic drought, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-13 at 02:07
'Makutano Junction' TV soap encourages small farmers to make silage - A TV soap opera broadcast widely in East ...
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TelecomTalk Nokia Life Tools Launched Across India Techtree.com, India Nokia is collaborating with Reuters Market Light (RML), ...
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Posted: 2009-06-13 at 01:30
Cacti have the advantage of stopping desertification as well as being an important food in arid countries such as Africa and ...
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The Africa Rice Center is an autonomous inter-governmental research association of 22 African member States. It is also one ...
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Posted: 2009-06-13 at 08:33
Los Angeles Times Robert Colescott dies at 83; African American artist skewered ... Los Angeles Times, CA In "George ...
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UN head talks in Mo. of feeding world's needy Product Design & Development, NJ Among those who attended was Roger ...
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Posted: 2009-06-13 at 12:21
Abugidainfo World Food Prize awarded Daily Kos, CA Expansion of Striga infestation has also increased in West Africa . The ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 11:27
The World Bank, she said, had “more than doubled” its investment in Africa in recent time especially in agriculture . But ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 10:17
(BBC) The annual survey, by the International Food Policy Research Institute in conjunction with Welthungerhilfe and Concern ...
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WASHINGTON, June 11, 2009 - The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors today approved the following project: Ethiopia, ...
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Eritrea is facing a food crisis, but aid workers say they cannot fully determine its severity as they are unable to assess the ...
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Africa : Continent Calls On World's Richest to Curb Brain Drain AllAfrica.com, Washington It is important to recognise ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 07:10
A French humanitarian aid group is set to launch a food security programme in Zimbabwe next month, in an effort to tackle food ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 06:50
A ruling by the human rights court of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which was hoped would put a stop to ...
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An acclaimed plant breeder and geneticist who was born and grew up in rural Ethiopia has won the 2009 World Food Prize for his ...
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The president of the foundation, former U.S. ambassador to Cambodia Kenneth Quinn, said Gebisa's work with sorghum has ...
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Abrupt global warming could shift monsoon patterns, hurt agriculture Science Centric, Bulgaria That resulted in much lower ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 05:56
domain-B mocoNews - Nokia Commercially Launches 'Life Tools' Services In India Washington Post, United States The ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 05:18
Agriculture is an important element in Africa's wealth and governments should give more support to farmers, Zambian ...
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Despite a host of obstacles – such as a lack of irrigation, inadequate roads, limited access to capital and widespread ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 04:40
2002 - 2004 Institute for Democracy in Southern Africa (Idasa) - Legislation Monitor. Functions include Advocacy, Research , ...
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Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Friday praised the relaunching of wheat production in Xai-Xai district, in the southern ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 04:02
THE SADC Tribunal on Friday granted an urgent application by Zimbabwean farmers who claimed that their government did not ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 03:07
In a keynote speech by Rockefeller Foundation's president Judith Rodin on October 17 2008, the speaker points out that the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 02:39
Abugidainfo Purdue professor awarded World Food Prize The Exponent, IN On Thursday, Ejeta was named the recipient of the World ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 02:01
Voice of America Strong leadership, decisive implementation become focus at WEF on ... Xinhua, China The audience also put ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 01:59
The Zulu Monarch, King Goodwill Zwelithini, has urged the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government to initiate programmes aimed at ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 01:03
A CURSORY view of the armed police officer and two security guards paints a picture of a fortified area. But the emptiness in ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 12:54
A KILOMETRE from Norton's New Donnington Farm pupils from Dudley Primary School swapped books for political posters as ...
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And the research highlighted the role that learning organic practices could have in improving local education. Backers of GM ...
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Posted: 2009-06-12 at 12:07
ANALYSIS-UN talks seek links in food, climate crises Reuters Africa has lower agricultural yields than farms in Asia, ...
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Ejeta's high academic standing earned him financial assistance and entrance to the secondary-level Jimma Agricultural ...
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Rwanda tea packers, a privately owned company will export 10 percent of total tea production with added-value this year. The ...
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domain-B Nokia launches Life Tools in India Trading Markets (press release), CA The company said that the service, which is ...
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UN talks seek links in food, climate crises Reuters Africa has lower agricultural yields than farms in Asia, Europe and ...
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Nebraska Farmer Ethiopian Scientist's Work in Agriculture Yields World Food Prize Kansas City infoZine, MO ... plans ...
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HARARE, Jun 12 (IPS) - Armed with picks, axes and hoes, a group of enthusiastic villagers break into song: ...
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Armed with picks, axes and hoes, a group of enthusiastic villagers break into song: "Randana kamara wakaipa, Randana ...
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Recurring droughts in the Horn of Africa have created ecological catastrophes, prompting massive food shortages and ...
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Tuesday and Wednesday were the coldest days so far this winter and after a couple of days of respite, ground frost can be ...
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GOVERNMENT will continue to refine the land reform programme to eliminate multiple farm ownership and ensure all Zimbabweans ...
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THE trial of Chegutu commercial farmer Bryan Bron-khorst, who is accused of refusing to vacate a farm acquired by the ...
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We are now into the season of selling agricultural produce. What should be a time of reaping the rich rewards of hard work can ...
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Chegutu Municipality's strategic partnership with farmer Mr Dana Neil has enabled council to meet its recurrent ...
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PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday tou-red tobacco auction floors in Harare and assured farmers that the land reform programme is ...
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Nokia Life Tools Launched Across India PR Newswire (press release), NY Nokia Life Tools service will be expanded to select ...
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JOHANNESBURG, Jun 12 (IPS) - Despite the significant role groundwater could play in alleviating poverty, improving food ...
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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) reports that “land grabbing” by foreign investors in developing ...
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December 13, 2007 | Woods Hole Research Center In many parts of the world the expansion of industrial agriculture and... ...
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The Citizen Daily Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Mustafa Mkulo The Citizen Daily, United Republic of Tanzania The ...
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SOUTHERN AFRICA : Groundwater Still Underutilised IPS, Italy "Southern Africa's aquifers, as we understand it, ...
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If similar changes were to happen to the Earth's climate today as a result of global warming - as scientists believe is ...
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Ejeta's high academic standing earned him financial assistance and entrance to the secondary-level Jimma Agricultural ...
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“I focused my research on sorghum because I'm originally from Africa , and I've known about the importance of the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-11 at 09:45
Data from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Peru show that nearly 40 percent of agricultural producers are credit-constrained. In ...
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Posted: 2009-06-11 at 09:38
Dr. Gebisa Ejeta of Ethiopia has been named winner of the $250,000 World Food Prize for his monumental contributions in the ...
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New Vision Kenya spending to rise by 25% New Vision, Uganda Not surprisingly, spending increases seem geared to ...
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Voice of America World Food Prize goes to Purdue prof Journal and Courier, IN But today he was named winner of the 2009 World ...
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Mr. Kofi A. Annan, Chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), today called for the development of key ...
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Abrupt Global Warming Could Shift Monsoon Patterns, Hurt Agriculture Science Daily (press release) That resulted in much ...
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But, consistent with a substantial body of research showing that we generally don't know what's good for us, when ...
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For example, by the end of 1995, CONCERN worldwide, an international Northern NGO working against poverty, employed 174 ...
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The government of Malanje and LR group, a company in charge of implementing the agro-industrial project dubbed "Aldeia ...
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Abrupt global warming could shift monsoon patterns, hurt agriculture EurekAlert (press release) ... parts of North ...
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Africa's smallholder farmers to benefit from US$150b market for ... Vanguard A conference sponsored by the Alliance ...
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"As a result, the yields have increased ten-fold and there are as many as 500-million people growing sorghum and using it ...
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Posted: 2009-06-11 at 05:44
Malawi's bumper maize harvest of 3.66 million tons is being attributed to good rains and the success of an agricultural ...
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Inside INdiana Business (press release) Purdue Professor Wins Nobel Prize of Agriculture Inside INdiana Business (press ...
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Africans' land is going Malawi's Daily Times Agricultural Investment and International Land Deals in Africa , ...
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World Food Prize goes to Purdue professor again Journal and Courier But today he was named winner of the 2009 World Food ...
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Plant breeder hopes African development takes root guardian.co.uk He attended an agricultural high school and college ...
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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) reports that "land grabbing" by foreign investors in ...
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As Ruth Meinzen-Dick, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute warned: “The majority of ...
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Radio and video are key forces of agricultural innovation and transformation in Africa than usually considered, a study ...
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Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and a group of CEOs announced today at a press conference during the 2009 World Economic ...
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Brazil offers to help Africa boost food output FreshPlaza Jorge, who is leading a Brazilian trade delegation visiting ...
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Vilsack: Revitalize rural America Delta Farm Press Ray Nabors spent 25 years at the Delta Center in Portageville, working ...
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Millions of Kenyans are facing hunger due to a prolonged drought and successive failed rains. In the northern region, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-11 at 01:22
Officials in Somalia's self-declared Republic of Somaliland are concerned about food security following poor rains during ...
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In order to effectively capitalize on the potential of radio and video technologies in Africa , the study recommends ...
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Early studies on indoor spraying, of which there are only a few, show far higher concentrations of DDT in the blood than have ...
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One PhD Scholarship in Development Economics or Agricultural Economics at the University of Goettingen There is one PhD ...
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Broadcast media key to agricultural innovation in Africa Africa Science News Service Conventional media, radio and ...
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Nevertheless it presents “a unique opportunity” for Africa to pioneer a low-carbon development model. More investment is ...
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At a recent interactive parley with the media, Governor Gabriel Suswan of Benue State spoke on the state of the nation, ten ...
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It was perhaps the most important diplomatic cum business shuttle ever made to the United States of America by heads of ...
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BUYINS.NET: SQNM, LVS, MYL, KO, PG, GE: Highest Net Sell Volume ... Trading Markets (press release) It offers its ...
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The World Bank, she said, had “more than doubled” its investment in Africa in recent time especially in agriculture . But ...
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The National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) is focusing on agro-processing, agriculture minister Hope Mwesigye has ...
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Posted: 2009-06-11 at 08:44
Food relief should not be a recipe for dependence, disaster preparedness state minister Musa Ecweru has said.
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Gulu LC5 chairman Norbert Mao has appealed to the World Food Programme (WFP) and the relief and disaster preparedness ministry ...
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PROSSIE Kamanyiro received farm inputs worth sh1,568,000 under the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme ...
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Globe and Mail 'SA is still facing a number of challenges' Independent Online, South Africa Zimbabwe, by comparison, ...
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Arun Shrivastava of the Centre for Research on Globalization reports: “USAID is actually an arm of the US-Department of ...
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Two conferences held in May contribute to the 2009 European Report on Development which has the theme: Development in a context ...
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Scientists to step up surveillance of cassava diseases in the ... Africa Science News Service, Kenya "The disease has ...
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Okonjo-Iweala: 16m Africans Made Poor by Meltdown THISDAY, Nigeria Agriculture helps to bring people out of poverty faster,” ...
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POOR market prices of between US15 cents to US40 cents per kilogramme have become the major challenge to most cotton growers, ...
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MSU grad student takes donkeys under her wing MSU Today, MI Yokoyama said that donkeys in Mali may be ill treated because they ...
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THOUGH THE recently -commissioned Northern Rural Growth Programme (NRGP) has a Herculean task in its quest to support the ...
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The president of the Nerica Rice Farmers Associate (NAFA) Alhagie Kibili Jaguraga has revealed that farmers in URR pledge to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-10 at 06:39
Watch Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe, as he discusses Zimbabwe's present and
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Listen to Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe, as he discusses Zimbabwe's present and
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The Government of Burkina Faso has graciously offered to host the fifth General Assembly of the Forum for Agricultural ...
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Athena Biotechnologies, Inc. Awarded Grant to Study Microorganisms ... Mass Media Distribution LLC (press release), FL ...
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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai discusses Zimbabwe's present and future in Washington.
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It is in economic times like today's that college students are summoned to work in the developing world–whether through ...
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Betting the farm CNNMoney.com In 2008, China announced a $5 billion plan to develop agricultural assets in Africa . ...
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Nigeria: The N200 Billion Agricultural Fund AllAfrica.com, Washington Furthermore, the fund is being administered by the ...
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On the face of it, the Federal Government's recent initiative of a N200 billion agricultural development fund, meant as ...
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Africa : Climate Change Threatens Instability in 37 Nations, Says ... AllAfrica.com, Washington ... as well as by eroding ...
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Gates-funded Project to Reduce Aflatoxin Contamination in African ... Africa Science News Service, Kenya The project has been ...
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This is the webpage for the DFID Research into Use program's operations in Tanzania.
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This page has information about the DFID Research into Use's program operation in Zambia.
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Farmers in developing countries like Uganda are hard hit by the impact of climate change, yet according to the Global ...
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The annual report of the Africa Progress Report says that despite authoritarian and corrupt leaders, wars and coups, the ...
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ASIA: Land grabs threaten food security IRINnews.org, NY Elsewhere in Asia similar examples can be seen, as well as in Africa ...
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SMALL farmers could be part of the solution to global food security provided the right investments, policies and development ...
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UGANDA'S cheese cannot be sold in The Netherlands due to delay by the European Union (EU) to issue a certificate of ...
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Agricultural Investment and International Land Deals in Africa ” reveals that many countries do not have sufficient ...
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The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), an apex agricultural research organization in Africa , in ...
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AGRA's vision is of a food secure and prosperous Africa achieved through rapid, sustainable agricultural growth based ...
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Reuters Ghana Brazil offers to help Africa boost food output Reuters Ghana, Ghana Jorge, who is leading a Brazilian trade ...
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Smart Palm pre launched The Independent, Uganda Focusing on education, trade and agricultural sectors, it will provide ...
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Urrbrae House has had many uses since then; a residence for the directors of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute, ...
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IITA, with Headquarters at lbadan, is an International Agricultural Research Centre in the Consultative Group. ... IITA seeks ...
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The research will have a dual benefit since a similar satellite-based technique can be used to predict the yield of ...
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Investment in agriculture in developing countries, where most of the workforce consists of small-scale farmers, is akin to ...
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The United Nations World Food Programme and its partners, last Sunday, went ahead with its 'Walk the World to end ...
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The World Food Programme (WFP)'s 'Walk the World' to end hunger crusade serves as a strong reminder of ongoing ...
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As Ruth Meinzen-Dick, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute warned: “The majority of ...
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Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga says he is committed to carrying through political reforms despite lagging progress
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The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), the apex agricultural research organization in Africa , in ...
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The Chronicle wishes to applaud the initiative by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to support ...
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The Government of Ghana is making strenuous efforts to ensure that the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) is devoid of ...
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MONROVIA, Jun 9 (IPS) - After watching the murder of her husband and his three wives by Charles Taylor’s rebels, Fatu ...
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A deadly mix of persistent drought, conflict and the high cost of food are again threatening millions of lives in the Horn of ...
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The inaugural ceremony attracted farmers, food processors, marketers, environmentalists, staff of the Ministry of Food and ...
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Buying food aid closer to where it is needed is cheaper and saves time, says a new US government report, but weak local markets ...
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Posted: 2009-06-09 at 12:23
Amid deadly clashes with farmers and expulsion orders by state authorities, thousands of nomadic herders in Nigeria do not know ...
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The June meeting organised by DFID/UK on UK/ Africa /China collaboration marks a new step in prioritizing joint research . But ...
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TOBACCO Research Board has advised tobacco growers to comply with the legislated planting dates to prevent the spread of insect ...
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THE Zimbabwe Agricultural Society is set to embark on a construction of a shopping complex in the Exhibition Park which houses ...
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African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) is a pioneering project to boost the talent pool of African ...
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The African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) is a pioneering program boosting the talent pool of ...
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The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), ...
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Some commenters on the old site, reacting to the The Development of Agriculture in Africa post, have continued to insist ...
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CRS is partnering with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to lead a network of regional associations ...
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Africa is home to spectacular migration events. Large mammals ranging from Grant's gazelles to blue wildebeests pound ...
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Sluggish economic growth, increased poverty and skewed income distribution, lack of basic infrastructure and social services, ...
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Farmers in Africa are helping to identify alternative farming techniques which will help them adapt to climate change. This ...
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As Ruth Meinzen-Dick, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute warned: “The majority of ...
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But activists also caution against opening delicate agricultural systems to economic exploitation under the guise of aid. ...
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Posted: 2009-06-09 at 12:15
Farmers in North Bank, Central River, and Lower River Regions raised pertinent issues which this reporter wanted to communicate ...
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In a briefing document circulated to members of the National Assembly's portfolio committee on rural development and land ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 08:44
Over 2008 large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and Southeast Asia have increased. This ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 05:18
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is feeding 6,300 prisoners in Zimbabwe's jails and this number is ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 04:29
The Executive Council of the Namibia Agricultural Union (NAU) says it will not be involved in the management and internal ...
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The third Conservation Agriculture Forum (CAF) will be held this week in Windhoek.
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He cited examples including the meeting of African ministers of finance and governors of central banks in Tunis, Tunisia in ...
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African leaders meeting for the 13th annual summit in July must honor their commitments they made concerning on investing on ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 03:40
Thousands of people around the world joined the World Food Program and its major corporate partners on Sunday in a walk event ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 03:40
Adequate rainfall between February and April resulted in a good crop yield across most of Burundi, with officials predicting ...
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Managing Director, Hadejia-Jama'are River Basin Authority (HJRBDA), Alhaji Sanusi Abdullahi, said yesterday that N4.35 ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 02:59
Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda will on Sunday June 7 lead the national "Walk the World" in Arusha to raise funds and ...
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The Arusha Regional Consultative Committee (RCC) has advised the Ngorongoro district authorities to repatriate invading Kenyan ...
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However, Nelspruit more famous for the tourists from Mozambique is only 100 km from the border South Africa -Mozambique. In ...
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A cabinet meeting chaired by President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Wednesday focused on ways of boosting production and ...
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Kebbi State Governor, Alhaji Saidu Dakingari, has launched 23,640 assorted fertilisers for the current farming season with a ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 02:20
Irked by the current global financial crunch culminating in dwindling federal allocation to states across the country, Ebonyi ...
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Sokoto State Deputy Governor, and Commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Mukhtari Shehu Shagari, has assured that the state ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 02:10
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has guaranteed over N9.1 billion agricultural loans to 29,947 farmers in Adamawa and Taraba ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 02:10
Uganda's reputation as the region's food basket is under threat.
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Increased yield has always been a major goal of U.S. agricultural research . Indeed, agricultural scientists have succeeded ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 01:31
Institute of Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria on Friday said Federal Government has granted its ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 12:38
A POLICY introduced five years ago to stimulate local fruit and vegetable production is starting to pay dividends.
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 12:23
A national workshop organized by the National Union of Eritrean Women (NUEW) highlighting the role of women in agriculture and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 12:14
Members of the Unified Movement of Small-scale Farmers (UM-SSF) from Kano, Katsina, Plateau, Nasarawa and Benue States are ...
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This conference provided a unique opportunity for a cross section of stakeholders to discuss the economic impact and potential ...
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The Minister of State FCT, Chief Chuka Udom on Tuesday at Bwari said security agencies would monitor movement of fertilizer ...
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The Director General of Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), Alhaji Mohammed Nadada Umar has ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 11:23
The N23m organic fertilizer plant factory built by the Ogun State government is expected to be commissioned by the end of next ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 11:16
Neither Plateau State governor David Jonah Jang nor any member of the state executive council was ready to host the House of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 11:16
Large scale farmers in Nigeria must insure their farms against all manner of risks in the agro-allied business, the Managing ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 11:16
Under a new NASA-USDA collaboration known as the Global Agriculture Monitoring Project, Bolten and colleagues from the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 11:15
TWENTY-TWO tonnes of illegal fishing nets worth sh60m have been impounded by the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA).
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 11:08
THE Norwegian government and the United Nations Development Programme have earmarked $4m (about sh4.4b) to combat ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 11:08
A $30m (about sh66.9b) edible oil processing plant has been set up in Lira Industrial Area in Lira Municipality.
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 11:08
Rugadya and other officers burn illegal fishing gear at Ggolo landing site in Mpigi on Friday
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 11:08
THE finance ministry has earmarked about sh1.8b for National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) activities in Apac district ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 10:46
“So far this week there has been a lot of very positive feed for Bio Jet Fuel from Jatropha Curcas Linn and a massive amount of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 10:30
Prime Minister, Bernard Makuza has expressed his disappointment over the slow progress in implementing the crop consolidation ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 08:54
As Ruth Meinzen-Dick, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute warned: "The ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 08:47
Asia is the highest potential market for Thai export of agricultural , industrial and food products. Since new markets cannot ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 08:29
OVER 70 Karimojong, mainly women and children, went feasting on carcasses of cattle killed last Thursday in a fire exchange ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 08:24
Zimbabweans should brace for a massive shortage of wheat next year as the prohibitive cost of production has thwarted ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 08:09
Farmers who spoke to this reporter during a tour of the country last week indicated that the best way to end their abject ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 08:09
The blockage at Bao-Bolong, a tributary of the River Gambia, in the Upper Baddibu District, North Bank Region, was a continuous ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 08:09
COMMUNAL and resettled farmers should take advantage of the peace and tranquility engendered in the inclusive Government to ...
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A total of 12 000 beasts worth over US$5,6 million are being lost annually to cattle rustlers, police have said.
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Sluggish economic growth, increased poverty and skewed income distribution, lack of basic infrastructure and social services, ...
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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a think-tank in Washington , DC , says between 15 million and 20 ...
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Hi Iam Erick from East Africa ,looking for scholarship ,my undergraduate specialization is Balchelor of science in ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 02:31
The Africa Nazarene University is a church-sponsored institution that provides courses that will meet the needs of African ...
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Posted: 2009-06-08 at 01:33
It could not be considered as part of East Africa or South Asia as it was historically and culturally different. In Mauritius ...
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Posted: 2009-06-07 at 10:25
The need to reduce climate impacts on communities, homes and public institutions has informed the Environment and Development ...
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Posted: 2009-06-07 at 08:23
In an attempt to reduce rural poverty, Angola's government plans to diversify its oil-focused economy by trying to restore ...
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Established in 1977 as an autonomous, non-profit, international research center, ICARDA is one of the 15 international ...
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The research team - led by Durham University, including BirdLife International and the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) - looked at ...
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Posted: 2009-06-07 at 10:17
Co-author of the research paper, Professor Rhys Green of Cambridge University and RSPB said: “These tiny birds make amazing ...
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Posted: 2009-06-07 at 10:11
MAPP is implemented in the Africa Region by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) guided by the Framework ...
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Posted: 2009-06-07 at 09:14
Regional Training Workshop on ”Building National Information Management and Knowledge Exchange Capacities for Agricultural ...
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Posted: 2009-06-07 at 08:56
Modern Black Africans are associated with the spread of agriculture in Africa at this time, and this agricultural spread ...
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The African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) is a pioneering program boosting the talent pool of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-07 at 07:46
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), ...
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Posted: 2009-06-07 at 07:45
The project is led by Zhu Lihuang, Zhu Zhen, both from State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant ...
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Posted: 2009-06-06 at 07:04
At each step of the way, we were advised and supported by two agronomists from the agricultural institute of the government ...
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Posted: 2009-06-06 at 02:53
“Beer is a very small part of alcohol consumption in Africa ,” Mark Bowman, who heads the London-based company's African ...
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Posted: 2009-06-06 at 02:46
Gold News - Gold Market Analysis & Gold Investment Research . ... Gold Market Analysis & Gold Investment Research . ...
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Posted: 2009-06-06 at 01:21
If we lose this living diversity Africa and the world will not be able to adjust to climate change,” Worede said. { 2 ...
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Posted: 2009-06-06 at 12:01
Half the populations of Africa and Asia will be living in urban areas by 2025, posing a major challenge for food distribution ...
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Posted: 2009-06-06 at 10:01
and Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) introduced the Global Food Security Act, which increases funding for agricultural research in the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-06 at 08:52
For audiences unfamiliar with Texas A&M;, the “A” originally stood for Agriculture , and people are called Aggies. One ...
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“Per kilo they sell it at USh1,200 ($0.54) and maize they sell at USh5-600,” says Lozio Makesa, a farmer who works at the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 08:51
Yet another farming family in Chegutu have been forced to turn their backs on their land and livelihood, after being forcibly ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 07:28
Omaheke Residents Have Expressed Unhappiness About the Resettlement Programme in the Region.
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 07:03
Regionally Recruited Position ( Africa ) Deadline for Applications: 1 July 2009. CGIAR Gender & Diversity Program Nairobi, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 05:40
Southern Africa's food security has "greatly improved", according to the USAID-funded Famine Early Warning ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 03:46
THE standing committee on regional development of the National Council has thrown down the gauntlet - provide direct funding to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 03:32
... max247 Suitable wines to enjoy at a braai - Tonight South Africa http://bit.ly/pRRib; editor1 ASARECA, Association for ...
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According to Joachim von Braun, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, " ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 11:20
The British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) has handed-over a Fish Farm to the British American Tobacco Nigeria ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 10:48
Callixte Rwanamiza (in black jacket) shows off an extra-ordinary bunch of bananas harvested from a farm fertilized with ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 09:44
Rwanda Tea Authority (Ocir-Thé) has planted extra 3,000 hectares of tea in 2009 in a move that will boost production of total ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 09:44
The President, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Dr Abdullahi Adamu, said yesterday in Abuja that more than 90 million ...
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SWAZILAND'S King Mswati III yesterday toured New Donnington Farm in Norton owned by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 08:42
THE Chegutu Magistrates' Court has deferred to June 10 the trial of commercial farmer Bryan Bronkhorst who is accused of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 08:42
A DELEGATION sent by the Chinese Export and Import bank, through the Chinese government has expressed interest in supporting ...
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THE Grain Marketing Board, which has the largest silo capacity in sub-Saharan Africa, has completed the rehabilitation of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 08:13
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan has given a marching order to the Committee on Youth Empowerment through ...
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“Any increase in livestock must be managed sustainably, but our research shows there are many areas in Africa where, over ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 07:53
WASHINGTON - The genome of a parasite that can kill honey bees has been sequenced by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 07:12
South Africa has three spaces where it can dominate: mineral and agricultural resources, but we need to add more value here ...
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Posted: 2009-06-05 at 04:53
The research team – led by Durham University – looked at the effects of climate change on 815 bird species of conservation ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 11:00
And yet, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack continues to push the biotech agenda abroad and in the U.S. Senate, with a ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 10:50
From 1991 – 1996 in Washington DC, she served first as a Watch Officer, then as Staff Aid to the Assistant Secretary for ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 09:40
Each mock-up modeled a different type of mega program: (1) thematic (improving the resilience of agricultural systems); (2) ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 09:16
Mr. Carlos Pascual is vice president and director of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 08:41
Foreign companies are buying or leasing vast chunks of land, largely in Africa , with up to 50 million acres sold off or soon ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 08:35
Scientists have developed improved methods for identifying a bacterium devastating banana crops in East Africa, where the fruit ...
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It also calls for inclusiveness in directing agricultural research and development, notably the inclusion of women, who grow ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 05:13
The producer price of white maize and wheat has fallen year on year - despite the planting season coinciding with the highest ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 05:07
The US Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) is predicting a slight increase in Zimbabwe's ...
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"We are at the point where the negotiations are going to put in place new mechanisms for the next five to 15 years and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 04:27
In his acceptance speech in a World Economic Forum event in Cape Town South Africa in June 2007, Kofi Annan stated, 'I ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 04:20
The Rwanda government strategic plan "Vision 2020" seeks to turn Rwanda into a middle-income country with a per ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 03:27
At least eight groups of farmers, each consisting of seven people in the municipality of Kiculungo, Kwanza Norte province, ...
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Fishermen from Ngolome lagoon, in Kwanza-Norte's Kambambe district, have benefited from eight small boats, under the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 03:09
Food security in eastern and western regions of the self-declared republic of Somaliland is under threat following an invasion ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 02:24
In March, AgriSA and AM van Rooyen, with claims of R750000 and R600000 respectively against the government for the loss of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 02:13
... migration and state security. Examples include studies of environmental refugees, climate change-related threats to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 01:09
FARMERS under the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme in Mayuge have received fake spray pumps at ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 12:30
Agriculture minister Hope Mwesigye has described the head of African Leadership Institute, David Pulkol, as a failure.
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Heavy gun fire rocked Katikekile sub-county in Moroto district on Friday evening as suspected Tepeth warriors clashed with the ...
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Fish provided, and still provide, one of the major sources of animal protein in the diets of many people in Africa , almost ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 11:30
Five Hanover Park cousins have opted to forego their weekly treat at the weekend and have instead donated the money to the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 10:57
Reiterating the Eritrean government's independent political stance, President Isaias Afwerki asserted that Eritrea would ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 10:38
Building a more inclusive and equitable economic order helps in shaping a financial system that is responsive to the needs and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 10:33
The Kwara State government has said anyone caught trading or diverting fertilizer in the State will not be left unpunished.
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 10:13
Food and beverage manufacturer Cairns Holdings has increased its capacity utilisation from an all time low of below 10 percent ...
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PREPARATIONS for the 2009 tobacco planting season have started with more than 30 000 grammes of flue-cured seed having been ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 09:49
Kaduna State government has procured 50,000 metric tonnes of fertilizer at N5.1 billion for this year's farming season, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 09:47
Notore Chemical Industries Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Cross River State Government to ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 09:21
Nigeria's bid to attain food sufficiency has received a massive boost as agro-allied giant and proponent of the African ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 09:06
Scientists, scholars, research and development personnel in industries attended recently a regional training workshop on Use of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-04 at 07:48
The ride ended at Denpark - a Danish botanical gardens/ agricultural research centre in Anjo. The bicycle parking was ...
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The World Food Programme (WFP) has stopped food distribution to about 740,000 internally displaced persons in the north and ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 10:02
UBA PLC has pledged to support the Ogun State government in the task of developing the agricultural sector in the state even ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 09:39
Camel farming could be an option for some 20 million to 35 million people living on semi-arid land in Africa, who will soon be ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 07:54
Biotech/MolBio not only get huge private investment, but also “the lion's share” of public monies for agricultural ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 07:19
According to the Africa Development Bank (ADB), about 267 million Birr (US $27 million) is budgeted for mitigation of the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 07:10
A senior ZANU PF official has found herself on the receiving end of state sponsored intimidation and harassment, after ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 06:46
Over 200 senior army officers, deployed countrywide to help secure the violent re-election of Robert Mugabe in last year's ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 06:46
According to the Africa Development Bank (ADB), about 267 million Birr (US $27 million) is budgeted for mitigation of the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 05:33
Forthcoming COHA research will analyze the regional effects of U.S. biofuel and agricultural protectionism, which include ...
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Three years ago I started a blog called Sociolingo’s Africa on WordPress.com. I am a sociolinguist with a PhD in Education (language and education) and my original intention was to try and organise and keep track of all the information I had about Africa. I hoped that other people might be interested in that information [...]
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Nutritional surveillance should be reinforced and therapeutic and supplementary feeding units extended to reduce high ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 02:10
research team from Durham University, BirdLife International and the RSPB looked at the predicted effects of climate change ...
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Government is to put in place a comprehensive rural development strategy linked to land and agragrian reform and food security.
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 01:53
Environmental News Articles and Forums for South Africa . Nuclear Issues, Global Warming, Climate Change, Environment, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 01:47
Article by: Hannah Edinger, Senior Manager - Frontier Advisory & Dr Ron Sandrey, Research Associate - The Centre for ...
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Cattle rustling in Kitgum, northern Uganda, has become yet another obstacle to the smooth return of former internally displaced ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 12:17
The manner in which Tapalapa bread is prepared has for a long time been a subject of debate as concern has frequently been ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 11:55
It was on the 29th of May 1999 that the handing over from the military to a democratic government took place, with the swearing ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 11:45
A service of the Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre (HOORC) Library to stakeholders in the management of Botswana\ ...
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The research team – led by Durham University - including BirdLife International and the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) looked at ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 11:20
AFTER almost a year of speculation over their possible eviction from the farm Baumgartsbrunn outside Windhoek, a group of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 11:04
A RECENT fact-finding mission to the Nyae-Nyae Conservancy has recommended to Cabinet that cattle from the neighbouring Gam ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 11:04
Mr. Smith indicated that, “It's critical for private/public partnerships to create opportunities for commercial farming in ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 10:24
The delay in distribution of fertilizers and other farming inputs to farmers across the country by state governments may mar ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 10:23
EVERYTHING is expensive and its really affecting us but one can't just sit down and watch because I believe all will be ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 10:13
Given that past efforts at boosting food production, were colossal failures, the pledged food security by President Umaru ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 10:13
EBONYI state government has flagged-off the 2009 farming season. It also noted that time has come for governments at all level ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 10:13
Nigeria spends at least $150 million ($1.8 billion annually) or at least N22.5 billion every month for the importation of food ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 10:06
Thematic and research priorities. Agriculture Advocates the integration of food security, equity and environmental ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 09:56
The N23m Organic Fertilizer Plant factory built by the Ogun State government is expected to be commissioned by the end of next ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 09:56
Boosting livestock production could be an attractive alternative for millions of poor farmers across Africa who, in the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 09:13
Dear Norah Owaraga, CEO, Executive Support Services, Kampala, Congratulations! From your e-mail on Monday, I understand you ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 08:02
I refer to the news about the looming hunger in eastern and northern Uganda and the increasing prices of food stuffs. Speaking ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 08:02
The Agriculture and Rural Development provincial management in eastern Moxico has set aside over one million hectares of arable ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 07:46
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 07:02
China has set up 11 research stations in Africa to boost yields of staple crops. That is needed: sub-Saharan Africa ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 06:20
The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) has concerted efforts to promote research and technology for ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 05:38
Each mock-up modeled a different type of mega program: (1) thematic (improving the resilience of agricultural systems); (2) ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 05:00
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 04:36
Her lifetime love and appreciation for animals, especially mules and donkeys, has led McLean to Mali, a country in western ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 01:15
"But our research shows there are many areas in Africa where over the next few decades climate vulnerability coupled ...
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Posted: 2009-06-03 at 12:30
The hopes of the country's beleaguered farming community will be riding on the outcome of a SADC Tribunal hearing on ...
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Posted: 2009-06-02 at 06:48
China has set up 11 research stations in Africa to boost yields of staple crops. That is needed: sub-Saharan Africa ...
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Posted: 2009-06-02 at 06:15
Farming plays a crucial role in the development of any nation.
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Posted: 2009-06-02 at 06:09
The Chairperson of the Lorlornyo Fishmongers Association, Madam Lydia Tsidi, has appealed to the government to support the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-02 at 03:30
pa3451u battery in South Africa . Mao Yushi Unirule Institute of Economic Research . (Including land) can be free movement, ...
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Posted: 2009-06-02 at 12:04
The SKEP report 'Transnational Research Programmes on Environment: Analysis of ERA-Net's Experiences and Recommendations for Good Practices' has been published.
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Posted: 2009-06-02 at 10:30
In a country like Nigeria where failed promises by past leaders have produced citizens that have become cynical about new ...
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Posted: 2009-06-02 at 09:39
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) said on Monday it was to embark on a long term joint initiative with the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-02 at 09:39
Local farmers who take loans to fund projects that represent investments along the agricultural chain will soon receive grants ...
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Posted: 2009-06-02 at 09:03
Despite daunting difficulties and challenges, the UN system successfully carried out 1,800 humanitarian missions in the Central ...
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Posted: 2009-06-02 at 08:38
Wealthy countries like Saudi Arabia, China and South Korea are turning to Africa to boost their food security. Not ...
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Posted: 2009-06-02 at 03:34
The research team – led by Durham University - including BirdLife International and the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) looked at ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 11:30
The research team -- led by Durham University - including BirdLife International and the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) looked at ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 11:30
The United Nations has said Zimbabwe needs $718 million in immediate aid, to stave off hunger for over six million people.
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 06:48
Citizens of the Township of Owensgrove in Lower Grand Bassa County were the proud recipients of a hand pump constructed by the ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 06:14
Afro-Guyanese were more concentrated in the urban areas around the capital city of Georgetown and in the mining industry, while ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 05:57
Food Security and Nutrition Update
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Published in the journal Ecology Letters, the research - funded by the RSPB - demonstrates that a network of wildlife areas ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 04:20
The Northern Rural Growth Programme(NRGP), a Project aimed at empowering farmers in the Northern, Upper East and the Upper West ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 02:17
A pack of lions has invaded Terrat village in Simanjiro district and has eaten three cows while nine others have gone missing.
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 02:16
THE Copperbelt Mining, Agriculture and Commercial Show (CMACS) has estimated that it will rake in about K250 million in gate ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 01:40
THE Government has advised farmers in Kafue district to embrace recommended farming technologies and practices that are ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 01:39
"If Mosses cannot go to the mountain, the mountain may as well come to Mosses," goes an adage. Farmers, who ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 01:11
DURING the past months, getting fresh fruits and vegetables from markets had been a nightmare. Besides the poor quality of ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 12:04
Garikai Sithole, the son of the late nationalist Edson Sithole, has threatened to take the law into his own hands to recover ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 11:32
THE Chitungwiza Junior Council last Friday donated foodstuffs to Mawunganidze Children's Home in Seke, which has been ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 10:50
NOW that the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa is moving towards the launch of the Customs Union and consequently ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 10:50
THE European Union is ready to disburse 2,3 million euros of the 45 million euros the regional block set aside for revamping ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 10:49
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI is ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 10:09
There is no doubt that any effort to part cattle keepers with their sticks would be futile. No wonder, Nyagatare district ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 09:39
A total of 600 residents of Jinja municipality west constituency have received chicks and piglets worth sh60m.
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 08:21
ARTS and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana has been accused of cronyism after evicting land-reform beneficiaries through her ...
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Posted: 2009-06-01 at 05:42
The AMSR-E satellite instrument captured data over Africa on April 7, 2004 from which this image of global root-zone soil ...
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Posted: 2009-05-31 at 05:32
The team from EIAST presented a paper on DubaiSat-1's role in supporting environment researches such as land and sea ...
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Posted: 2009-05-31 at 05:20
RECENT farm invasions destabilising the farming community have driven thousands of already disadvantaged children out of school ...
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Posted: 2009-05-31 at 04:01
Co-author of the research paper, Professor Rhys Green of Cambridge University and RSPB said: "These tiny birds make ...
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Posted: 2009-05-31 at 09:31
As the second largest cotton exporter in Africa after Egypt and a country that depends on agriculture - which provides ...
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Posted: 2009-05-31 at 06:30
Special Africa Edition ... The German Research Foundation has released a joint memorandum with the German Agricultural ...
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Posted: 2009-05-31 at 05:36
... treser Sudden unexplained infant deaths in central Africa ; rtrt sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty THE ...
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Posted: 2009-05-31 at 04:38
KARA Kenya Agricultural Research Institute Monsanto has " research " facilities around the globe to promote their ...
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Posted: 2009-05-31 at 02:47
The African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) is a pioneering program boosting the talent pool of ...
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Posted: 2009-05-30 at 10:54
Select Category, Blog World, Bloglines South Africa , Book WebSites, Bummer, Business WebSites, Computer Wiz, Consumer ...
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According to the Africa Development Bank (ADB), about 267 million Birr (US $27 million) is budgeted for mitigation of the ...
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Posted: 2009-05-30 at 08:39
With the knowledge that agriculture has been neglected in sub-Saharan Africa over the past twenty years, the Foundation ...
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Posted: 2009-05-30 at 07:00
The work will last for two years and will see the Dundee-based scientists working with three organisations in Kenya: the Kenya ...
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Posted: 2009-05-30 at 06:04
“Donors want to see their funding going into investments on roads or research , not paying for income or salaries,” said ...
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Posted: 2009-05-30 at 08:53
To develop agricultural product value chains, Africa must enhance research and development, improve input markets, farm ...
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In East Africa agricultural productivity remains at a relatively low level, i.e. about 1t maize/ha for the last 15 years. ...
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Posted: 2009-05-30 at 01:00
CIAT is one of 15 not-for-profit Centers funded mainly by various countries that make up the Consultative Group on ...
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Posted: 2009-05-30 at 12:39
The Jacob Marengo Secondary School in Katutura is one of the few schools in Windhoek that offer agriculture as a subject. But ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 09:13
The Nguni Cattle Breeders Society (NCBS) has embarked on a campaign to promote the cattle in Namibia, president Johan Swanepoel ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 09:02
Prisoners locked away in Zimbabwe's nightmare jails are still dying from hunger related diseases, as the widespread food ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 08:59
Members of the Food Security Policy Advocacy Network (FoodSPAN) have called on government to develop a comprehensive policy on ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 08:44
In addition to the one in Egypt, stations in the Canary Islands and in South Africa will also receive the signal. Images from ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 08:37
That's the question von Braun and his colleagues at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research are ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 07:33
Accra, May 29, GNA- The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), and the Swiss-based Syngenta Foundation for ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 06:59
But even without any research , we can easily agree on the necessity of good governance, fair and honest justice system, and ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 05:36
Ensuring food sufficiency and security in Nigeria will be near impossible without mechanised agriculture. So say participants ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 04:08
The Department of Livestock and Veterinary Services has introduced programmes aimed at increasing the quality and quantity of ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 03:21
The first brief, titled “The Case for Investing in Africa's Biocarbon Potential,” shows that the potential for reducing ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 02:59
WHO is telling the truth? Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has been quoted in the media as saying the ongoing farm invasions ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 01:04
I CANNOT claim to be schooled in economics apart from growing up vending fruit and vegetables in Marondera. However, economic ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 12:29
Dr Babagana Ahmadu, representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in The Gambia, has disclosed that the ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 12:28
15. EU negotiates the UN strategy for sustainable development. 16. Africa Day: strengthen the EU- Africa Partnership. 17. ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 12:11
In this part of a five-part series, the UCLA analyst says it's an encouraging sign that two agricultural centers have ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 12:01
THE Government is preparing to set up a credit risk guarantee for banks, which venture into financing the agriculture sector, ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 09:19
FIFTEEN companies have been registered to start processing milk, the agriculture state minister disclosed this week.
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 09:19
THE Police in Katakwi district are holding two trucks loaded with over 80 bags of maize on suspicion that the cereals are ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 09:14
ISN'T it interesting to walk into some place and eat away the day? This is what the Kampala Food Festival, next Saturday, ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 09:14
Residents of Bunabwana parish in Manafwa district on Tuesday accused the Police of uprooting their banana suckers and slashing ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 09:14
Amibara Pastoral and Rural Development Office; Boset Wereda Administration; CABI Africa ; Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 07:12
The report, an annual publication of the AU Commission and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (“http://www.uneca.org/ ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 03:36
The report, entitled “Developing African Agriculture through Regional Value Chains,” highlights the Comprehensive Africa ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 01:58
If we move beyond the GNP and income measures, the enormity of Africa's long-term poverty challenges become even more ...
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Posted: 2009-05-29 at 12:00
"Donors want to see their funding going into investments on roads or research , not paying for income or salaries," ...
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Posted: 2009-05-28 at 10:53
African nations will be hit hard by the global economic crisis during the course of 2009, the United Nations and the African ...
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Posted: 2009-05-28 at 10:10
As the current offensive against Zimbabwe's remaining commercial farmers gathers momentum, it would appear that even ...
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Posted: 2009-05-28 at 09:08
Certainly each of these themes warrants its own debates, research , and policy recommendations. It is also true that each CSD ...
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Posted: 2009-05-28 at 07:43
A compilation of resources on the impact of the global financial crisis on Africa.
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Posted: 2009-05-28 at 05:05
Bee detective seeks an elusive killer Capital Press (subscription), OR Many honeybees in Texas are hybridized with Africanized ...
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Posted: 2009-05-28 at 04:30
Outsourcing Agriculture . Corn, courtesy of faungg/flickr. Corn prices are high. If land is being unused or under-utilized in ...
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Posted: 2009-05-28 at 02:48
Local business delegates back from South Africa West Fargo Pioneer, ND The trade mission was supported by the South Africa ...
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Posted: 2009-05-28 at 02:14
A leading advocacy group has linked escalating food prices and the sharp rise in living costs across Africa to violations of ...
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