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Sunday, November 8, 2009

1.South African farmers scramble to adapt to climate change

2.Senegalese NGO plants 34 million mangrove trees

3.Ban on Somali livestock by Saudi Arabia lifted

4.Malawi faces declining fish stocks

5.Zimbabwe police confiscate counterfeit maize seed

6.Malawi tobacco sales drop

7.Senegal youth shun farming

8.Senegal's groundnut production in freefall

9.Climate change is worsening food insecurity

10.Arab bank to step up support for African agriculture

11.South African regulatory rejection of GM potato proves controversial

12.Is the fight against hunger a security issue?

13.New international code may limit size of foreign farm investments

14.Ugandan coffee exports rise

15.Moroccan wheat output may jump to record levels

16.Ivory Coast unions suspend cocoa-industry strikes

17.Urban farming increasingly being encouraged

18.Global food company to assist small-scale cocoa farmers

19.New South African farmers lobby for more state financial support

20.Devastating drought alters life for Kenya nomads

21.Ethiopia to develop biofuels

22.Inadequate storage facilities result in big losses for Ivory Coast farmers

23.International beer brewer to increase number of African raw material farmer-suppliers


Posted by Africa News Network at Sunday, November 08, 2009  

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