THE Urban Agriculture Stakeholders' Forum has urged urban local authorities to devise urban agriculture policies that promote food "sovereignty" in the face of escalating food prices and shortages.

The African Development Bank (ADB) has granted 140 million US dollars to Mozambique to be used in the agricultural sector during the two year period, 2009-2010.

The annual meeting of the governors of the African Development Bank (ADB), held in Maputo on Wednesday and Thursday, approved the creation of an African Fertiliser Facility, that will make fertilizer available to African farmers at affordable prices.

The Ministry of Fisheries has denied allegations by a group, called the Joint Action Against Pair Trawling (JAAPT) that foreign vessels have invaded Ghana's fishing industry and all vessels plying the coastal areas of the country are engaged in pair

Ghana is among six African countries meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Practicing Agricultural Innovation in Africa to address the key policies that can create an enabling environment for increased investments in agricultural innovation that would spur greater productivity

Cotton Growers Association, made up of members from the Northern, Upper East and West Regions, appealed to government to subsidise farming inputs to retain them in the cultivation of the crop to save the industry from collapse.

Pig production in Zimbabwe is set to expand following positive outcome of research to establish whether cotton seed could be used as a stock feed in place of soya bean, which is in short supply.

GOVERNMENT is in a quandary over what to do with huge debts it is owed by farmers who benefited from the farm mechanisation programme following the changes to the exchange rate, businessdigest can reveal.

A decision by the Nigerian government to reverse an earlier decision to import 50,000 metric tonnes of rice from Thailand to ease supply pressures on rice in Africa's most populous country was met with mixed reactions.

WAPELLO — Nestled between two flooded rivers, the Iowa and Mississippi, conditions were ideal for Warren Kemper to start planting on May 1.

WEST BRANCH --- John Black called planting progress and conditions "barely fit."

DAYTON --- A.J. Blair is in a good mood today. "I think we're behind where we normally would be, but we're doing better than most people this spring," Blair says.

EARLING --- Once conditions were right, Denny Kenkel says he didn't waste much time getting into the field.

TROY MILLS --- Tom Murray laughs when he hears the old joke that says ag education is only about cows, sows and plows.

IOWA FALLS — Students shove their chairs back and eagerly follow their teacher, Bruce Moore, out of the classroom and into the adjacent shop.

future with community colleges By Gene Lucht, Iowa Farmer Today IOWA FALLS --- For Scott Tapper and others at the Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA), it was an easy decision to support a swine program at Ellsworth Community College here.

MILTON --- Brad Klodt realized that to infuse some youth into his cow herd, he would have to learn to deal with heifers.

The inauguration of the Rehoboth Urban West Constituency office marks a giant step in bringing government services to the country's people.

The Minister of State for Agriculture and Water Resources, Alhaji Adamu Waziri yesterday says Nigeria does not need to import food.

As part of its resolve to embark on commercial agriculture in order to enhance food sufficiency both in the state and country at large, the Imo State government recently gave the go-ahead to some South African farmers billed to kick