Contents
Focus on: A green revolution for Africa
- Going against the grain: Malawi's fertiliser subsidy
- Bahati Tweve: The honest 'middleman' brokering deals
- Reaping what you sow: developing a seed industry in Africa
- Found in translation: farm radio goes local
- No till and raised beds boost yields
- Gender revolution: a prerequisite for change
- Sorghum beer: a sustaining brew
Points of view
Developments
- Take a bough: introducing the wonder of willow
- Africa's banana jamboree
- Reviving an ancient tradition: the Kamayoq in Peru
- IFPRI's call to shake-up research
Book reviews
- Starved for science - how biotechnology is being kept out of Africa
- Propitious esculent: the potato in world history
- International development studies: theories and methods in research and practice
- The world of organic agriculture: statistics and emerging trends 2008
- Climate change and agriculture in Africa: impact assessment and adaptation strategies
- Management of nematode and insect-borne plant diseases
- Affirming life and diversity: rural images and voices on food sovereignty in south India
- Business for development: promoting commercial agriculture in Africa
News brief
- Cold snap prompts emergency response
- Trade blow for international summit
- Scientists report pesticide cancer link
- China 'quake shakes farm sector
- Rome summit pledges food support
- Kenya's bitter biofuel battle
- Record rice will ease price pressure - USDA
- Potato test smashed
- Drought grips Ethiopia...
- ...While floods buckle US farm belt
- EU debates CAP reform
- Rainforest champion quits post
- Egypt approves first GM crop...
- ...And Australia counts the cost of GM delay
- DFID and UK supermarkets join forces for Africa
My perspective
Country profile
In pictures
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July 2008
July 2008
