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afrol News, 10 March - At the African agriculture summit in Abuja, the proposal of creating a common Africa market of strategic food and agricultural commodities achieved much attention. A scheme that could boost African agriculture was presented.

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West Africa enters intl organic food market

afrol News, 9 March - Consumers in Europe and America are willing to pay extra for trusted quality organic food products. Now, a new project helps thousands of farmers in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal and Sierra Leone to enter this lucrative market.

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Kenya
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Kenya farmers get low-tech micro-insurance

afrol News, 9 March - Drought usually spells disaster for small-scale farmers in Kenya. Innovative low-threshold technologies for the first time are empowering farmers to lower their weather risks by purchasing cheap micro-insurance policies.

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"Subsidise infrastructure, not fertilisers," report

afrol News, 9 March - A new report urges African governments to stop the new tendency of direct intervention in agriculture, with subsidising fertilisers as an example. Government should rather help markets by providing infrastructure than thwarting markets, it says.

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Cape Verde farmers to reorganise into companies

afrol News, 5 March - The government of Cape Verde is promoting the set-up of agricultural companies by the archipelago's farmers. This commercialisation of agriculture should "boost rural development," the PM holds.

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» 01.03.2010 - Mozambique to carry out agric census to gauge poverty
» 16.02.2010 - Government approves $250 mln for agro-credit
» 12.02.2010 - "Easy to double African banana yields"
» 09.02.2010 - Herders receive support to improve pastoral resources
» 08.02.2010 - Funding to help countries improve land tenure
» 27.01.2010 - ‘Agriculture makes good business sense’ – IFAD
» 27.01.2010 - ‘Agriculture makes good business sense’ – IFAD
» 26.01.2010 - Experts on black-eyed peas to meet in Dakar
» 22.01.2010 - $20 million loan to support smallholder agribusiness in Zambia
» 21.01.2010 - Burkina Faso device strategies to adapt to climate change
» 14.01.2010 - Grasslands alternative to fighting climate change
» 14.01.2010 - Kenya to sell shares in 5 sugar companies
» 12.01.2010 - Jordan's Princess visit Kenya's poor
» 22.12.2009 - Tea prices to stabilise with normal weather in 2010
» 18.12.2009 - EU allocates €50 million for drought-affected Horn of Africa people
» 17.12.2009 - New centres raise cassava’s outlook in Sierra Leone
» 15.12.2009 - Invest in agriculture - Professor Offei
» 14.12.2009 - Experts discuss ways to strengthen poor nations' agriculture
» 03.12.2009 - EAC members urged to increase agric budget
» 02.12.2009 - Mali’s rural poor boosted with $25.04 million for microfinance
» 01.12.2009 - Liberia pledges support to small farmers
» 01.12.2009 - World Food buys gold mines in Ghana
» 30.11.2009 - Agricultural research reduces poverty in sub-Saharan Africa
» 30.11.2009 - FAO declares victory over rinderpest
» 27.11.2009 - $39 million injected to improve Ethiopia’s pastoralists lives
» 24.11.2009 - $6 million to boost rural agricultural finance in Ghana
» 23.11.2009 - Africa lost 15 percent of GPD to climate change says report
» 23.11.2009 - Libya and FAO sign $71 million development deal
» 19.11.2009 - Developing countries urged to make agriculture a funding priority
» 19.11.2009 - Concluding Doha Round could boost recovery, WB
» 19.11.2009 - Spain doubles aid for Horn of Africa
» 16.11.2009 - $1 million boost for FAO’s food security work
» 12.11.2009 - FAO calls for worldwide day-long hunger strike
» 11.11.2009 - Africa’s poor to suffer due high food prices
» 10.11.2009 - Mauritanian grassroots groups receive US funding
» 09.11.2009 - AGRA and NEPAD partner to increase food security in Africa
» 09.11.2009 - Nigeria to get agro-research park
» 04.11.2009 - GM potato gets roasting in South Africa
» 03.11.2009 - Maize research splendid investment for Africa
» 03.11.2009 - Ghana fit to double cocoa production
» 28.10.2009 - Tanzanian farmers receive FAO's boost
» 28.10.2009 - Tunis forum makes recommendations on protecting African remittances
» 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
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