The NATION – Pakistan By: Reuters OSLO – Wheat experts are stepping up monitoring of a crop disease first found in Africa in 1999 to minimize…
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER THURMAN, Iowa — John Askew pulled at a soybean pod and revealed two anemic beans dappled with stem rot, the harvest of a…
Africa.com Blog by Makhosazana Sika, South Africa-Washington International Program (SAWIP) Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the incumbent chairperson of the Africa Union (AU) Commission, recently lauded Africa’s promising possibilities.…
OUPblog By Nicholas Magnan No-till agriculture, a resource conserving technology which increases the amount of organic matter in the soil, offers many benefits to farmers and…
Financial TimesFears grow for rise in food prices By Jack Farchy and Heba Saleh, The increase in grain prices is already being felt around the world.…
By COLIN A. CARTER and HENRY I. MILLER IT is not often that a stroke of a pen can quickly undo the ravages of nature, but federal regulators…
NEW YORK TIMES Nati Harnik/Associated Press Rows of corn stalks in a field south of Blair, Neb., this week. The drought-damaged field was cut down for…
Algiers – The Council of Foreign Ministers of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) emphasized, Monday in Algiers, the “full involvement of all Maghreb states in security…