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Monday, January 4, 2010

1.Uganda’s bio-diesel processor sets $2m aside to buy from outgrowers

2.Seed giant dominates genetically altered crop market

3.Mali's poultry sector overwhelmingly informal

4.Sudan seeks Middle East farmland investors

5.Tunisia innovates to protect date palm sector

6.Treasure trove of nearly 300 new plants discovered by Kew experts

7.Farmer-pastoralists’ clash leaves 32 dead in Nigeria

8.Left in the cold at Copenhagen, farmers look to future

9.Kenya's horticulture sector falters

10.Poor storage threatens cereal harvest in Benin

11.Alarm at foreign acquisition of African land for farming

12.Lake Chad drying up

13.Cattle rinderpest disease now a thing of the past, declares FAO

14.Uganda sees more maize at commodity exchange

15.Mozambique cancels biofuels contract with foreign investor

16.Zimbabwean farmers protest imports of GM produce

17.Toyota Tsusho to produce jatropha as biofuel

18.Zimbabwe maize production begins to recover

19.'Great Green Wall' attempts to stop spread of Sahara Desert

20.Indian tea company buys estates in Uganda

21.Ethiopia lures agricultural investors as farm workers live in poverty

22.Benin diversifies agriculture away from dependence on cotton

23.Tanzania puts faith in jatropha, despite unanswered questions

Posted by Africa News Network at Monday, January 04, 2010  

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