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The international negotiations meant to agree on a global response to climate change are now underway. For the first time, there is a text that will form the basis of the final agreement to be negotiated by December 2009 when nations gather in Copenhagen, Denmark.  

Tanzania is poised to set up a national agricultural bank to enable farmers to make deposits and access loans easily.

Kenya’s President, Mwai Kibaki opened the Second African Carbon Forum at the UN’s Complex Nairobi, lambasting COP 15 conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark last December for not coming up with any tangible binding resolution on climate change even when scientific evidence have shown the need for a Post-Kyoto Protocol framework.

Butterfly farming is emerging to be one of Kenya ’s foreign exchange earners with its annual income for the last four years standing at over Sh8.1million shillings.

Leaders of three of the 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) said Tuesday that soaring prices of basic commodities that have led to food riots that have spread across countries is clear testimony that the historic 30-year global era of low food prices has come to a close.

Over 2 000 international entomologists from leading universities, departments of agriculture, and science research organisations, are to meet in South Africa for a six day conference to confer on the advancement of entomology and the study of insects, as a contributor to modern science.

Significant HIV prevalence declines in Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe have been accompanied by positive changes in sexual behaviour among young people, a new UNAIDS Outlook report shows.