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  • The food crisis and the failure of capitalism 15 May 2008 19:19 GMT
    ... a plan to reduce hog production. Hog farmers, squeezed by low hog prices and high ... This is the brutal world of capitalist agriculture, a world where some people destroy food ... in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Honduras, Indonesia, Madagascar, Mauritania, Niger, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Thailand, Uzbekistan, and Zambia. On ...

  • Nigeria: Fertiliser Association Commends FG On Policy 15 May 2008 12:12 GMT
    ... exploit the rock phosphate deposits in the Sokoto-Niger - Kwara axis for phosphate fertiliser production and also ... subsidy which, according to them, distorts the market. They therefore, want the government to address ... address the absence of retail outlets where farmers can conveniently walk to buy their fertiliser ...

  • Fertiliser Association Commends FG On Policy 15 May 2008 10:36 GMT
    ... exploit the rock phosphate deposits in the Sokoto-Niger - Kwara axis for phosphate fertiliser production and also ... subsidy which, according to them, distorts the market. They therefore, want the government to address ... address the absence of retail outlets where farmers can conveniently walk to buy their fertiliser ...

  • Sustainable Farming Key to Checking Food Prices 15 May 2008 08:18 GMT
    ... countries include Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Eritrea, Zambia, Niger, Djibouti and Sudan. The World Food Programme has ... of the world's land is used for agriculture. Production problems may arise from natural disasters ... misguided economic policies. However, climate variability is farmers' greatest challenge in Africa. The variability of ...

  • Uganda: Sustainable Farming Key to Checking Food Prices [opinion] 15 May 2008 08:16 GMT
    ... countries include Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Eritrea, Zambia, Niger, Djibouti and Sudan. The World Food Programme has ... of the world's land is used for agriculture. Production problems may arise from natural disasters ... misguided economic policies. However, climate variability is farmers' greatest challenge in Africa. The variability of ...

  • Nigerian Villagers Seek Damages From Shell Holland For Pollution 15 May 2008 05:21 GMT
    ... by its Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, or Shell Nigeria, lawyers said ... up spills that devastated crops and fish farms in the Niger Delta. Shell Nigeria, operates more than 1,000 wells ...

  • Villagers seek damages from Shell in Holland for pollution in Nigeria 15 May 2008 00:49 GMT
    ... spills that devastated their crops and fish farms in the Niger Delta. The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, ... in which the government-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. owns 55 percent. Royal Dutch Shell has ...

  • Analysis: Farmers cling to their subsidies 14 May 2008 23:50 GMT
    ... As food costs rise, farmers cling to their subsidies Published: May 13 ... food crisis to reform policies that distort agricultural production and trade. They argue that fewer ... nation for food supply – such as Niger with Nigeria or Afghanistan with Pakistan. Some countries ...

  • Orogun residents raise alarm over toxic dump 14 May 2008 21:39 GMT
    ... a contracting firm, working for an oil company in the Niger-Delta just as some suspected cultists invaded Ubeji ... waste was already causing damage to their farmlands and emitting disgusting odour all over the ...

  • GLOBAL: Export controls curtail aid 14 May 2008 20:37 GMT
    ... export 2,500mt of grain to Ghana and Niger from Burkina Faso, which has not given the ... considered food-insecure by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, but high food prices have recently ... drops in the ban-imposing country bans disrupt markets, on which the poor depend on heavily ...

  • Government Bans Rice Exports 14 May 2008 15:49 GMT
    ... unrest. Cameroon, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Mauritania, Niger, Peru, the Philippines, Uzbekistan and Zambia, among others, ... accounts for about 70 percent of total farm output, but the country has been unable ... major obstacle. "Where subsistence farming now exists, agri-business can work, but the problem is market ...

  • Madagascar: Government Bans Rice Exports 14 May 2008 15:47 GMT
    ... unrest. Cameroon, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Mauritania, Niger, Peru, the Philippines, Uzbekistan and Zambia, among others, ... accounts for about 70 percent of total farm output, but the country has been unable ... major obstacle. "Where subsistence farming now exists, agri-business can work, but the problem is market ...

  • Rising food prices in developing countries: causes, consequences and solutions 14 May 2008 14:01 GMT
    ... levels and this trend will continue. The agricultural production is less surplus than ten years ... countries use less fossil energy in their farming systems, they are also hard-hit by oil ... what lay behind the food crisis in Niger in 2005. Niger saw a rise in prices due ...

  • West Africa: Export Controls Curtail Aid for Hungry Neighbours 14 May 2008 13:35 GMT
    ... export 2,500mt of grain to Ghana and Niger from Burkina Faso, which has not given the ... considered food-insecure by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, but high food prices have recently ... in the ban-imposing country Export bans disrupt markets, on which the poor depend on heavily ...

  • SENEGAL: As protests swell 'self sufficiency' plan is questioned 14 May 2008 13:17 GMT
    ... not set out a credible vision for agricultural and rural development. Their vision is not ... must regulate this, and grant loans to farmers. Without credit they can’t do anything,” said ... African countries, including Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, to do this, and Senegal is likely to ...

  • Export Controls Curtail Aid for Hungry Neighbours 14 May 2008 13:16 GMT
    ... export 2,500mt of grain to Ghana and Niger from Burkina Faso, which has not given the ... considered food-insecure by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, but high food prices have recently ... in the ban-imposing country Export bans disrupt markets, on which the poor depend on heavily ...

  • Behind the food crisis: 'capitalism's historical failure' 14 May 2008 12:57 GMT
    ... a plan to reduce hog production. Hog farmers, squeezed by low hog prices and high ... This is the brutal world of capitalist agriculture — a world where some people destroy ... Cambodia, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Honduras, Indonesia, Madagascar, Mauritania, Niger, Peru, the Philippines, Senegal, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Zambia. ...

  • GLOBAL: Export controls curtail aid for hungry neighbours 14 May 2008 10:33 GMT
    ... export 2,500mt of grain to Ghana and Niger from Burkina Faso, which has not given the ... considered food-insecure by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, but high food prices have recently ... drops in the ban-imposing country bans disrupt markets, on which the poor depend on heavily ...

  • GLOBAL: Export controls curtail aid for hungry neighbours 14 May 2008 10:04 GMT
    ... export 2,500mt of grain to Ghana and Niger from Burkina Faso, which has not given the ... considered food-insecure by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, but high food prices have recently ... drops in the ban-imposing country bans disrupt markets, on which the poor depend on heavily ...

  • Nigeria: South Korean Farmers to Invest $2.5m On Rice Production 14 May 2008 09:08 GMT
    ... South Korean farmers in collaboration with the Niger state Government have concluded arrangements to invest $2.5 ... the state. The permanent secretary Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Health, Engr. Abdullahi Aliyu, disclosed ...

  • Analysis: Farmers cling to their subsidies 13 May 2008 22:54 GMT
    ... As food costs rise, farmers cling to their subsidies Published: May 13 ... food crisis to reform policies that distort agricultural production and trade. They argue that fewer ... nation for food supply – such as Niger with Nigeria or Afghanistan with Pakistan. Some countries ...

  • World Bank and IMF Policies Caused Food Crisis 13 May 2008 21:46 GMT
    ... of food for production of bio-fuel and agricultural subsidies in the US and the European ... in combination with the SAPs often drive farmers out of their small farmer structures and ... private operators. Obligated to the World Bank, Niger must privatize its four largest state sectors water, ...

  • The Indian elephant returns to Africa 13 May 2008 10:34 GMT
    ... plans to open others in Burkina Faso, Niger and Gabon. Rediscovered by trade and resources With ... sector. Economic cooperation spans several sectors, including agriculture, small and medium enterprises, health, education, information ... Delhi, which was attended by over 500 business delegates from 33 African countries. Some 150 ...

  • Niger, the year of starvation ahead 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... switched off and the world's journalists leave Niger, what is almost certain is that next season ... the poor. A 1998 UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) profile for Niger, reviewing 10 ... up to the next harvest in October, farmers are struggling - and in their tens ...

  • Asia's Coming Water Wars 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... River, Volta River, Zambezi River, and the Niger Basin are conflict-prone zones. In the 21st century, ... harmed local industries in the region, including farming and fishing in Cambodia and Thailand, and ... issues of fisheries management, safe navigation, irrigated agriculture, watershed management, environmental protection, flood management and ...


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