Tuesday 31 January 2012
The meeting will bring staff from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) together with small-scale farmers and food processors from Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal, as well as from East Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Saturday 28 January 2012
A history of insurgency, misrule and repression and lack of basic services in the North Eastern Province have posed an additional threat.
Tuesday 24 January 2012
These diseases represent the greatest threat to food security in the region as cassava is Africa’s second most important food crop after maize and provides more than half of the dietary calories for over half of the total rural and urban population in sub-Saharan Africa.
Saturday 21 January 2011
Modest advances for agriculture in Durban signal need for scientific input
Tuesday 10 January 2012
The ICC proceedings will have enormous political consequences for both the 2012 elections and the country's stability.
Tuesday 20 December 2011
Dozens of arrests have been carried out across the country since the 28 November elections, frequently targeting members and supporters of the political opposition.
Tuesday 20 December 2011
More than 100,000 people – virtually the entire population - were displaced by the violence in May 2011 and ongoing insecurity, the presence of armed forces and militias and the danger posed by landmines are preventing them from returning.
Wednesday 7 December 2011
Under the agreement with Liberia, China will contribute more than US$ 1 million and technical assistance through 24 Chinese experts and technicians, to support implementation of the National Programme for Food Security over a two-year-period. In Senegal, China will provide assistance through 26 experts and technicians.
Saturday 3 December 2011
This revelation came at a symposium on countering human trafficking held on 22 November in Nairobi that saw over 10 organisations in the region working against it, meet to seek interventions into ending the dehumanising crime.
Friday 2 December 2011
The banana plantlets were obtained through a rather more complicated process compared to the traditional way of growing banana using suckers – these are the daughters growing at the base of the mother plant that farmers uproot from their own farms or buy from a neighbour.
Wednesday 30 November 2011
Sadly, the bombing came at a time when the UN agencies were just beginning to help these refugees so that they could survive in a new and hostile environment.
Tuesday 22 November 2011
The Anti-Terrorism Proclamation of 2009 includes an overbroad and vague definition of terrorist acts and a definition of “encouragement of terrorism” that makes the publication of statements “likely to be understood as encouraging terrorist acts” punishable by 10 to 20 years in prison.
Monday 21 November 2011
Saving Lives at Birth partnership supports bold ideas of innovators, motivated by tragic personal losses, to save the lives of women and their babies
Saturday 19 November 2011
The ongoing Famine in southern Somalia has two primary causes. First, the total failure of the October‐December 2010 Deyr rains and the poor performance of the April‐June 2011 Gu rains resulted in the worst annual crop production in 17 years, excess animal mortality, and very high food prices.
Saturday 19 November 2011
South Sudan, with a population of about 12 million, is a landlocked country that relies on local industry to cater to its consumer goods demand, presenting a huge potential for foreign investors since independence, although a lack of infrastructure, dependence on imports, a lack of local training and other issues still posed deep challenges.
