As aid workers from around the globe rush to send food, water, and medical care to the storm-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta region and the City of Rangoon in Burma, GeoEye's IKONOS Satellite tracks the extent of Cyclone Nargis damage. (PRWeb May

Iran had experienced a more favorable early season rainfall situation than its drought-plagued neighbors of Iraq and Syria, but conditions rapidly deteriorated in February, March, and April 2008.

Iraq has been experiencing one of the worst droughts in the past 10 years, with total wheat and barley production in 2008/09 expected to decline 51 percent compared to last year.

Gave him back to the dirt from which he came. Earlier his family and neighbors walk by, Looking at memories of a simple man's life. A table of photos, toy tractors and cards, Telling the story of life on the

ALBIA --- Paul Belzer has seen farmers being busy this spring.

CLARION --- Gary Woodley walks across the field, mud clinging to his boots with every step.

PERCIVAL --- David Lueth started planting corn April 19. Nearly two weeks later, he's still planting corn.

It's one thing to hear Northeast Iowa farmer Mark Mueller talk about the saturated conditions that are idling planters in much of the state when fields should be bustling.

Police in Kambia have arrested 5 Guinean trucks, at Bamoi Lumor close to the Guinean border, fully loaded with foodstuffs apparently meant for sale in neighbouring Guinea where an end of government subsidy triggered economic woes.

Global inventories for maize and wheat are at historic lows. Of the 36 countries vulnerable to food prices, 21 are in Africa, said DBN Portfolio Manager: Research, Michael Humavindu.

President, God's Kingdom Society (GKS), Brother Aighalua, has enjoined people all over the world to look to God for help and succour in the face of the global food crisis.

Amidst the hike in the price of food and other commodities, the Director of Planning at the Ministry of Agriculture Ousuma Tall has underscored the need for government to make food production a major priority.

About three years ago, government called on farmers to cultivate cassava.

The leadership of the Committee for Joint Action (CJA) has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate the management and affairs of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP).

SUSPECTED war veterans and Zanu PF loyalists have seized over 20 commercial farms in Mashonaland West in the past fortnight, amid reports that a countrywide new wave of farm invasions was looming ahead of a presidential election run-off between President

The announcement by President Museveni that taxes on milk production related operations will be removed is a welcome move. It is the only way the person at the lowest end of the income ladder can benefit instead of expecting them

President Yoweri Museveni has called for expertise in modern food processing and packaging. The President made the call yesterday at State House, during a meeting with a delegation of the UK-based Gatsby Charitable Foundation, led by Lord David Sainsbury.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has held a consultative meeting with stakeholders, geared towards developing a national food policy. The meeting also sought to solicit feedback on the way forward, both in the short and long terms.

JOHANNES Fredrick Fick, the Beatrice farmer who was convicted of breaching the Land Acquisition and (Consequential) Act by refusing to vacate Victory Farm, has been ordered to leave the farm within 45 days.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Thursday held the first in a series of consultative meetings with stakeholders, geared towards developing a national food policy. The meeting also sought to solicit feedback on the way forward, both in the short and