RICH countries' agricultural subsidies and denial of market access to produce from developing countries were partly to blame for low crop production in developing nations, President Mugabe has said.
THE World Food Programme has warned agents distributing its food in Zimbabwe to desist from interfering in the country's politics, ordering them to carry out their operations through Government structures.
African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call "Marie Nerica" who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government. Her success sprang from the government's renewed commitment to agriculture, sealed when it recently signed a compact known as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development ...
Nothing has ever sparked a debate on the state of governance in the country like the song released by one of Sierra Leone's most popular artists, Emerson Bockarie.
An expert on Friday warned that the banning of hunting in preference to photographic safaris could have a devastating effect on the environment and the wildlife it is expected to preserve.
The World Food Program (WFP) has called for more contribution to urgently assist about twenty million individuals in Africa who may be affected by erratic rain fall.
There is a very useful principle in economics called the diamond-water paradox.
International aid agency Oxfam today (22 October 2009) called for a radical shake-up in the way the world deals with food crises in Ethiopia and beyond. The agency rounded on what it called a “knee-jerk reaction” to food crises which is dominated by sending food aid. While the agency recognised that sending food aid does save lives, the dominance of this approach fails to ...
Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her chest. At seven months, Inga suffers from malnutrition.
Heads of State of the five East African Community partners yesterday signed the protocol on the establishment of the East African Common Market.
The East African Community officially ushered in a common market on Friday amid renewed commitment by the region's Heads of State to expedite the envisaged political federation by 2015.
THE Young Communist League (YCL) yesterday repeated its call that former president Thabo Mbeki be prosecuted for AIDS-related deaths, saying it sided with victims rather than critics of the proposed court action, including the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League.
Libyan President Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has called for an end to the buying and selling of African farmland by rich nations during UN hunger summit the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Italy.
THE compromise clause in the bilateral investment agreement between Zimbabwe and SA, due to be signed in Harare on November 27, provided security of tenure for all existing and new South African investments in Zimbabwe, but excluded historical claims arising from Zimbabwe's land reform process, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said yesterday.
Women are the most affected by the effects of climate change, the latest United Nations Population report has revealed.
