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Ghana
Society | Agriculture - Nutrition
Ghana con-men sell sand as fertilizer

afrol News, 24 March - Impostors in Ghana are giving new meaning to the expression of "selling sand in the Sahara." The gang managed to sell sacks of sand to poor farmers, telling them it was fertilizer.

Africa
Agriculture - Nutrition | Human rights
How African land deals override locals

afrol News, 9 March - A new study into current land lease and sale contracts in Africa shows how local land users are mostly not even consulted in the process. When consulted, they are often tricked.

Nigeria
Agriculture - Nutrition
Nigeria farmers double cassava yields

afrol News, 1 March - Nigerian farmers have more than doubled the yield of cassava, thanks to new varieties and a little bit of "juju" delivered to the Oyo state after a food crisis in 2008.

Ethiopia
Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition
African leaders in Ethiopia land grab

afrol News, 28 January - Several African leaders have bought lands in Ethiopia to develop agricultural projects or tourism resorts. They are let to bypass a 2007 ban on export of cereals, still in place for other investors.

Kenya
Agriculture - Nutrition | Gender - Women
Kenyan women milk fortunes from camel

afrol News, 13 January - Safia Kulow, in the arid centre of Kenya, is in firm control of her economy after she and other traditional Anolei women made big business of camel milk. Now they consider which investments to make to increase revenues from their industry.

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» 05.11.2010 - "Fertilizer tree" triples Malawi, Zambia yields
» 22.10.2010 - E-payment for a cup of water in Kenya
» 21.10.2010 - Cape Verde sees starting "Green revolution"
» 12.10.2010 - Africa sees successes fighting hunger
» 05.10.2010 - Scientists create African banana Wiki
» 27.09.2010 - Aid back to basics: Cash handouts in Niger
» 27.09.2010 - Cowpea scientists promise to end African hunger
» 22.09.2010 - East Africa to boost potential of cassava, potato
» 14.07.2010 - Ethiopia's agriculture quickly expanding
» 09.07.2010 - Researchers seek climate change-proof food crops
» 06.07.2010 - West Africa happy for new cocoa deal
» 19.04.2010 - Mozambique records highest cashew crop in 3 years
» 12.04.2010 - Farmers' credit scheme spread across West Africa
» 09.04.2010 - Can Africa feed herself...?
» 30.03.2010 - "Myths hinder potential of cassava in Africa"
» 26.03.2010 - Mozambique strengthen ties with Viet Nam
» 25.03.2010 - Angola attaches welfare to biofuel law
» 24.03.2010 - Nuclear technology for irrigation in Libya, Algeria
» 19.03.2010 - Ethiopia commodity exchange sets example
» 10.03.2010 - Call for common African food market
» 09.03.2010 - West Africa enters intl organic food market
» 09.03.2010 - Kenya farmers get low-tech micro-insurance
» 09.03.2010 - "Subsidise infrastructure, not fertilisers," report
» 05.03.2010 - Cape Verde farmers to reorganise into companies
» 04.03.2010 - $8 million support for agric production
» 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
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