Forum ends with vows to transform African agriculture
Written by Adu Domfey   
Sunday, 05 September 2010
The inaugural African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) has closed in Accra, Ghana, with experts vowing to accelerate the transformation of agriculture in Africa and tackle food security.

 

 
Parliamentarians now back Annan over action on Green Revolution
Written by Adu Domfey   
Saturday, 04 September 2010

African parliamentarians have supported calls by the former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for action to achieve African Green Revolution at an ongoing forum in Accra, Ghana.

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South African, Egyptian appointed to steer committee on food security and nutrition
Written by Kevin Wafula   
Friday, 03 September 2010
Sheryl Lee Hendriks of South Africa and Mona Mehrez Aly (Egypt) are among 15 experts appointed by Committee on World Food Security (CFS) to form the Steering Committee that will lead its new advisory body, the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE). The move is part of an ongoing reform of the international governance of food security and nutrition. 
 
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High fertility and population growth rate undermining Uganda's natural resources and challenging national Development.

Mama Sarah Obama, step grandmother to US President Barak Obama is spearheading a grandmother initiative against malaria, Africa’s deadliest yet easily preventable disease. On Tuesday, she helped distribute insecticide treated bed nets donated by the Vestergaard Frandsen to thousands of her peers, who thanks to HIV and AIDS now mother their orphaned grandchildren.

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FAO is mobilizing its teams of experts to help ascertain if the new strain of H1N1 virus, which already killed many people in Mexico, has a direct connection to pigs.

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