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It will now be easy for the country to choose whether to sprout the farm with GMOs or not, following the announcement of a new safety kit.

Doctors at a Berlin hospital were surprised to discover that, while treating a man for cancer, they also rid his blood of the HIV virus. This could yield a new direction in the fight against AIDS.

The five member countries of the Indian Ocean Commission, IOC: Union of Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and Seychelles are set for the 7^th regional HIV/AIDS conference from the 10-12 November 2008.

Uganda’s livestock authorities are reporting the spread of Nagana, outside the traditional known regions.

An advisory panel of independent experts convened by FAO has called for placing two types of sharks in appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)and issued further recommendations regarding four other proposals to limit international trade in a number of commercially exploited aquatic animals.

Farmers in developing countries are to be rewarded under a binding international treaty for conserving and propagating crop varieties that could prove to be the saviour of global food security over the coming decades. 

Africa is losing more than four million hectares of forest every year – twice the world’s average deforestation rate and some areas across the continent are said to be losing over 50 metric tonnes of soil per hectare per year, a new USD700, 000 worth of an Atlas, compiled on behalf of the ministers by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), shows.