1a Food aid: U.S agribusiness, shipping interests vs. local sourcing



1b Poor farmers no threat to U.S. agribusiness; they will become its customers: Howard Buffet



1c Howard Buffet mischaracterizes our position on food aid: USA Maritime



1d Warren Buffett's son is super-wrong about food aid to Africa



2 'Britain's foreign aid could fund UK-based research on GM crops for drought-ridden Africa'



3 Sierra Leone cocoa farmers in post-war recovery



4 Tempers flare over land allocation in Namibia



5 African crop research group AATF receives US$ 1 million Gates Foundation grant



6 Mozambique government provides land to Brazilian farmers



7 Water crisis fails to dampen Kenya farmers’ greenhouse project