ARS computational molecular biologist BrianScheffler is heading an effort to create a genomics toolkit to help plantbreeders develop new varieties of sweetpotato, the world's seventh mostimportant food crop. Click the image for more information aboutit. Sweetpotatoes Get High-Tech Help By

ARS ecologist William S. Longland is trying to determine what gives western juniper a competitive advantage in the environment. Photo courtesy of Joseph M. DiTomaso, University of California - Davis, Bugwood.org Spread of Western Juniper Seeds Studied By November 4,

Read the to find out more. ARS soil scientist Jane Johnson is looking forpractical ways to keep carbon in the soil and reduce greenhouse gas emissionsfrom agricultural production. Click the image for more information aboutit. Searching for Ways to Reduce

Read the to find out more. Red flour beetle (Triboliumcastaneum).Click the image for more information about it. Scientists Plot Genetic Ploy Against Grain Pest By November 2, 2009 Aided by a genomic map of the redflour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, (ARS)

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has been feeding people in Lesotho since 1965, yet the tiny mountain kingdom is still not much closer to achieving food self-sufficiency. Time to overhaul the approach, aid agencies say.

At the health centre in Dar Naim, a working class neighbourhood of Nouakchott, the building for malnourished children is always full: in rural areas the seasons and crops affect malnutrition levels whereas in the capital this phenomenon remains constant throughout

THE Government is to re-consider funding the model farmers in Karamoja whose crops failed to germinate due to drought.

The country is edging closer towards the adoption of the GMO cotton variety in a move that might boost production in the ailing sub sector.

The government move to offer thousands of vulnerable households a monthly stipend to meet their basic needs is laudable but begs a number of questions that might derail its worthy intentions.

WHAT will a farmer do to have a successful crop, especially at a time when loans are hard to access? Farmers, both established and new, are faced with a challenge to raise funds to finance their crop after the Reserve

The Agricultural field officer at Njaba Kunda, Sana Singhateh, has commended one Alhagie Modibou Keita, a farmer at Njaba kunda in Central Baddibu District of the North Bank Region for his contribution to the diversification of agriculture by cultivating different

The Executive Director of the National Disaster Management Agency, Essa Khan, on behalf of the National Disaster governing council recently presented D8000.00 and 4 bags of rice to the family of Alh. Ousman Saho at chissemajaw village in Jokadu.

COMMUNITIES in the Mpohor Wassa East District are to benefit from a pilot community development project, dubbed Community Information Centers (CIC), initiated by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mpohor Wassa East Constituency, Mr. Anthony Evans Amoah.

Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL), the Agricultural Improvement and Land Access Programme (AILAP) and Ahafo Agribusiness Growth Initiative (AAGI), have jointly held an Open Day at Kenyasi, under the theme: "Increased Agricultural Production and productivity in Asutifi."

Farmers in Bayelsa State have raised alarm over an alleged plan to deny them access to the N200 billion Federal Government agricul-tural loan facility.

THE small holder farmer in Africa has always depended on instinct, a bit of observation, and knowledge passed on from his forefathers. Using instinct a farmer would predict the rainy season and dry season. Today, the same farmer can neither

POVERTY is more than just lack of incomes. It is also the failure to satisfy basic social needs, failure to break out of the cycle of poverty and insecurity of a person and property.

THE Ministry of Agriculture has reported an outbreak of the sweet potato hornworm in Teso and Kigezi regions.

The government is to reconsider funding model farmers under the National Agricultural Advisory Sevices (Naads) programme for the financial Year 2008/2009 in the Karamoja region whose crops failed to germinate due to drought.

Rwanda may be among the first African countries to achieve the Millennium development Goal I, if it maintains or increases its pace in reducing food insecurity amongst its citizens.