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Ghana’s ‘hybrid’ rice dilemma

By Will Ross BBC News, Ghana Take [...] [...more]

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Ivory Coast: Food price hikes spark riots

ABIDJAN, 31 March 2008 (IRIN) At the height of the demonstration, before riot police started firing tear gas, IRIN saw around 1,500 protestors chanting “we are hungry” and “life is too expensive, you are going to kill us.” “A kilo of beef has increased from 700 CFA (US$1.68) to 900 CFA (US$2.16) in just three days,” one [...] [...more]

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Niger: Blog of Esther Garvi - Eden Foundation

Thanks to the Niger1.com website for making me aware of Esther Garvi’s blog about living and working in Niger. “Born in Sweden, but came to Niger at the age of six. Still around. Am the greatest Niger fan you can find and cannot think of a better way to live my life than working for Eden [...] [...more]

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NERICA - New Rice for Africa - Africa Rice Centre (WARDA)

NERICA—New Rice for Africa—is the product of interspecific hybridization between the cultivated rice species of Africa and Asia. Rice breeders in West Africa have finally been able to combine the local-stress adaptation of African rice with the high yield potential of Asian rice. The result is something that can revolutionize rice farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: rice that [...] [...more]

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Moringa News - an international network

Moringanews is an international network of people interested in Moringa. Their web site offers reliable information [...] [...more]

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World Food Programme

Among the Millennium Development Goals which the [...] [...more]

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Who is the global epicentre of extreme poverty?

“The global epicentre of extreme poverty is the smallholder farmer” according to the United Nations Millennium Project. If increased recognition leads to scaled-up action, the Millennium Development Goals can still be reached. They represent the majority of people who live in the rural areas. Everyone who has a small holding of land on which they try [...] [...more]

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Custodians of the land

Empowering the poor and hungry as custodians of land, water, forests and bio-diversity can advance both food security and environmental sustainability. Under the burden of chronic poverty and hunger, livestock herders, subsistence farmers, forest dwellers and fisherfolk may use their natural environment in unsustainable ways, leading to further deterioration of their livelihood conditions. When you have nothing [...] [...more]

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