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In response to the current soaring rice prices, an Emergency Rice Initiative for Africa has just been launched to provide urgent assistance to rice-growing countries in the continent in four major areas: seed; fertilizer; best-bet technologies; and post-harvest and marketing.

World’s leading experts on infectious disease and vaccines meet in Nairobi, Kenya at the 5^th international symposium from the November 13-14 to call for renewed action for protection of citizens against pneumococcal disease, a leading killer of children and adults worldwide.

Over the last two decades, stakeholders in agro-biotechnology have strived to hammer benefits farmers stand to get from biotechnology. So much that as a result ----interests has not only been created among farmers, but that the number of students interested in studying biotechnology has also risen. Today, at least four public universities in Kenya are offering either biotechnology courses or related ones with rising number of students every year.

A recent CIMMYT study found that restrictive national policies, lack of credit opportunities, inadequate seed production capacities, insufficient numbers of recently released public sector varieties, and challenging marketing situations were the main reasons why maize seed sector growth is slow in many African countries