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<title>Agriculture Industry Today: Burkina Faso Agriculture News</title>
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<title>West Africa: WHO Raises Alarm Over Region&apos;s Floods</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185359088</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 04:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Cluster. According to the WHO statement, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Togo need urgent  ...  compromised by the flooding. The destruction of agricultural lands and loss of crops aggravates the  ...
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<title>H5N1 turns up at Benin poultry market</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185319235</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 22:17 GMT</pubDate>
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...  market Aug 27, 2008 (CIDRAP News) - Agriculture officials in Benin recently reported that two  ...  the country. Outbreaks in 2007 affected two farms, also located near Benin&apos;s southern coastal area,  ...  few years, including Nigeria, Togo, Niger, and Burkina Faso. In other developments, agriculture officials in Vietnam  ...
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<title>Expected flood under control</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185169743</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 04:31 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  the opening of the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso. He said the organization has actively been  ...  lives. The inhabitants are mostly fishermen and farmers. DCOP Akrofi Asiedu said although they acknowledge  ...
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<title>West Africa: Flood Season Starts But Not Where It Should</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185169455</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 04:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Kouritenga, 100 km east of the capital Ouagadougou, was the worst hit, with 155mm of  ...  over the last 10 years. And in Burkina Faso 6,000 people in the ancient northern oasis  ...  in West Africa still rely on subsistence agriculture and use the rainy season to grow  ...
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<title>West Africa: Sahel is &apos;Ground Zero&apos; for Climate Change</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185168709</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 04:30 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  Jan Egeland, said on 2 June in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, as he began a mission to draw  ...  and troughs in rainfall, resulting in reduced agricultural outputs and disruptive migration as people move  ...
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<title>turkey, south africa: A Cooperation Summit&apos;</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184977357</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 04:26 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the Istanbul summit, including the presidents of Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Comoros and Mali. After  ...  of cooperation. Among those fields are trade, agriculture, management of water resources, infrastructure, energy, transport  ...  for a stronger foothold in the African market for its growing economy. Trade volume between  ...
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<title>Ghana: Waging War On Human Trafficking column</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184882495</link>
<pubDate>25 Aug 2008 15:26 GMT</pubDate>
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...  trafficking takes place are the Mali - Burkina Faso - Ivory Coast route and the Togo  ...  by the need for labour on plantation farms and their use as child soldiers, child  ...
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<title>African scientists reveal origins of maize virus</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184880061</link>
<pubDate>25 Aug 2008 14:54 GMT</pubDate>
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...  about a century ago, just when commercial agriculture was replacing subsistence farming and maize started to overshadow indigenous crops  ...  team. An analysis of virus-infected maize from Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Namibia  ...
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<title>African nations gear up to raise rice production</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184870183</link>
<pubDate>25 Aug 2008 13:51 GMT</pubDate>
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... By Savitri Mohapatra Everyone to the farm,&amp;rdquo; is the new decree of President Wade  ...  The President has just unveiled an ambitious agricultural plan called the Great Offensive for Food  ...  says Abdoulaye Oudraogo, a rice farmer from Burkina Faso, which is now investing massively in agriculture.  ...
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<title>NADMO assures: Expected flood under control</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184854971</link>
<pubDate>25 Aug 2008 12:27 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  the opening of the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso. He said the organization has actively been  ...  lives. The inhabitants are mostly fishermen and farmers. DCOP Akrofi Asiedu said although they acknowledge  ...
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<title>Bawumia zooms up north</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184852401</link>
<pubDate>25 Aug 2008 12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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...  week. He will be moving in the company of a contingent of revered Muslim leaders  ...  that would link the North to neighbouring Burkina Faso, Cote d&apos;Ivoire, Togo and other West African  ...  and other West African countries through modernised agriculture, expanded trade and agromanufacturing. Source: The Ghanaian  ...
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<title>Fear of Disaster as Heavy Floods Hit 6 Western Nations</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184846370</link>
<pubDate>25 Aug 2008 10:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Cluster. Benin, Togo, Niger, Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso need urgent assistance. Flooding has caused widespread  ...  compromised by the flooding. The destruction of agricultural lands and loss of crops aggravates the  ...
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<title>Burkina Faso opens Bagre Dam tomorrow</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184812240</link>
<pubDate>25 Aug 2008 04:30 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
... An official at the Ghana Embassy in Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso, on Thursday night confirmed to the  ...  been washed away and a number of farms submerged in water. The report, presented to  ...
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<title>Floods Kill 8</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184811113</link>
<pubDate>25 Aug 2008 04:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the spillway of the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso soon. Alhaji Idris said several areas of  ...  flooded with several houses washed away and farmlands inundated. The White Volta in the Tolon/Kumbungu,  ...
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