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South Africa
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GM potato gets roasting in South Africa

afrol News / SciDev.Net, 4 November - South Africa's Agricultural Research Council has appealed against the government's decision to reject a locally developed genetically modified (GM) potato it was hoping to release to farmers. The decision has split the industry.

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Maize research splendid investment for Africa

afrol News, 3 November - A new book looking at the history and effect on maize research in West and Central Africa reveals it is among the best spent funds to achieve poverty reduction. Every million US$ spent on maize research had lifted 35,000 Africans out of poverty, it claims.

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Ghana
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Ghana fit to double cocoa production

afrol News, 3 November - The Ghanaian government and its cocoa industry is gearing up to meet the aim of producing one million metric tonnes of cocoa by 2012. Ghana's Cocoa Marketing Company is already preparing to address bottlenecks in distribution, marketing and sales.

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Tanzania
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Tanzanian farmers receive FAO's boost

afrol News, 28 October - The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is to provide Tanzania with advisory support for farmers that will help them better respond to market opportunities and thus heighten food security.

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Tunis forum makes recommendations on protecting African remittances

afrol News, 28 October - An international forum on remittances to Africa has endorsed a series of recommendations to reduce transfer costs and exploit the potential of remittances as a development tool in the continent.

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» 27.10.2009 - Kenya leads Africa rural connect in third round
» 23.10.2009 - $480 million to help in Ethiopia's food security
» 19.10.2009 - Cocoa livelihoods programme launched in Ghana
» 15.10.2009 - Zambia becomes agric support hub for Southern Africa
» 15.10.2009 - Gates challenges global leaders to support world's poorest farmers
» 13.10.2009 - Australia helps Zim farmers through World Bank
» 12.10.2009 - World faces huge challenge to feed growing populations
» 12.10.2009 - New multi-media tools to help resolve land rights issues in Africa
» 08.10.2009 - More agric investments needed to feed worlds hungry, UN
» 08.10.2009 - Malawi milk producers receive boost from Netherlands
» 07.10.2009 - USAID awards $387,000 for indigenous health in Ethiopia
» 05.10.2009 - Mauritania gets $12 million to boost food production and lower imports
» 01.10.2009 - Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana youth to benefit from Cocoa development grant
» 01.10.2009 - Benin's livestock farmers sign support grants with USADF
» 30.09.2009 - IFAD signs additional funding to fight poverty in Kenya
» 30.09.2009 - Climate change could induce more food dependency on Africa, FAO paper
» 29.09.2009 - Zimbabwean communities educated about owls
» 28.09.2009 - FAO urges policy improvement to turn around Africa's fortunes
» 24.09.2009 - $1.2 billion trade finance to support Ghana's cocoa sector
» 24.09.2009 - S/Korea in farming deal with Tanzania
» 23.09.2009 - USADF signs new grants in Cape Verde and Tanzania
» 18.09.2009 - Project focus to enhance child nutrition in rural Malawi and Tanzania
» 16.09.2009 - IFAD approves $217.82 million for rural poverty work worldwide
» 14.09.2009 - Zimbabwean farmers to get EU funded boost
» 14.09.2009 - Eastern Africa to harmonise strategies to reach food security
» 14.09.2009 - New pan-African rice centre adopted
» 02.09.2009 - Project help poverty reduction in northern Nigeria
» 01.09.2009 - AU Commission signs compact agreement with Ethiopia
» 31.08.2009 - Boosting smallholder farming key to easing hunger in SADC
» 31.08.2009 - UN expert urges Zambia to keep poverty reduction promises
» 26.08.2009 - Bringing technology and agronomic knowledge to African farmers
» 21.08.2009 - IFAD head concludes visit to Abidjan
» 20.08.2009 - Kenya launches poverty drive projects
» 17.08.2009 - Scientists claim total victory on invasive locusts
» 14.08.2009 - Ethiopia’s food security continues to decline
» 14.08.2009 - State policy should not leave populations homeless, UN expert
» 07.08.2009 - San communities in Botswana get USADF funding
» 06.08.2009 - British funding to secure land peace in Rwanda
» 06.08.2009 - US assures women of support in food production
» 05.08.2009 - Zambian rice farmers get $500,000 in USADF funding
» 03.08.2009 - EU food facility grant to increase farmers’ productivity
» 17.07.2009 - Botswana’s San population receive US grant
» 10.07.2009 - Helping world’s hungry to promote peace and stability
» 26.06.2009 - Sudan ready for biofuels
» 12.06.2009 - Kenya’s small farmers get World Bank support
» 02.06.2009 - Kenyan peas withdrawn from market
» 28.05.2009 - Financing smallholder farmers will grow Africa out of poverty, experts say
» 26.05.2009 - Sierra Leone smallholder farmers get WFP boost
» 22.05.2009 - "Agriculture answer to crisis in Africa"
» 19.05.2009 - EU awards €54 million to Horn of Africa
» 15.05.2009 - EU grants €106 million to boost agriculture in developing countries
» 13.05.2009 - UN chief calls for support of small farmers
» 11.05.2009 - Cameroon signs over $13.5 million microfinance development deal with IFAD
» 05.05.2009 - Green revolution must empower farmers, Migiro asserts
» 29.04.2009 - EC provides €394 food security package for world's poor
» 16.04.2009 - Funding to help get back conflict hit communities to farming
» 16.04.2009 - "Senegal self-sufficient on rice by 2012"
» 01.04.2009 - Cocoa processor to double capacity
» 25.03.2009 - China seals food production deal for Africa with FAO
» 23.03.2009 - World food crisis summit gets thumps up
» 20.03.2009 - Help farmers grow more food with less water, Diouf
» 19.03.2009 - Melez threaten to seize coffee stocks
» 18.03.2009 - Standard Bank signs $100 million funding deal for small farmers
» 15.12.2008 - Africa summit discuss massive hydro scheme for food and energy security
» 12.12.2008 - Sub-Saharan Africa doing well to combat hunger, but...!
» 01.12.2008 - Global crisis presents a double threat to the poor, report says
» 20.11.2008 - EU "plans to dump" milk, butter in Africa
» 17.11.2008 - African symposium focus on women's role in agriculture
» 11.11.2008 - Kenya recognises agriculture as priority sector
» 04.11.2008 - Stakeholders commit to improve cocoa farming and eradicate poverty
» 20.10.2008 - Côte d'Ivoire cocoa investigation targets big fish
» 17.10.2008 - Food prices may head downwards
» 17.10.2008 - $6.4 Million for rural agricultural project in Angola
» 16.10.2008 - World leaders must keep promise to fight hunger in Africa, Annan
» 10.10.2008 - Banana farmers urged to up local market production
» 10.10.2008 - DRC rural communities receive farming grant
» 08.10.2008 - WCF awards grants to Institutions in Cocoa-producing countries
» 18.09.2008 - US$31.1m loan to Mozambican farmers
» 08.09.2008 - Ghana foreign exchange to surpass $1.2 billion annually
» 29.08.2008 - Tanzanian leader visits US
» 29.08.2008 - Major boost for Liberia palm oil farmers
» 27.08.2008 - Kenyan firms in row over land
» 05.08.2008 - Mali adopts cotton privatisation law
» 24.07.2008 - Swaziland receives agricultural funding from FAO
» 16.07.2008 - Tanzania sugar prepares for global market
» 09.07.2008 - Egypt to import fertilizer from China
» 08.07.2008 - SA to top maize exports, but...
» 04.07.2008 - Hope for African banana farmers
» 01.07.2008 - Africa's food sector attracts more private investors
» 27.06.2008 - Africa's green revolution needs sound policies
» 26.06.2008 - SADC battling with illegal fisheries
» 24.06.2008 - Tana's wildlife in Kenya at risk
» 23.06.2008 - Mauritania seeks to avoid global hikes' shocks
» 19.06.2008 - Africa's agric produce compromised

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