State-sponsored violence and intimidation on commercial farms is reported to have intensified with several white farmers barricaded in their farmhouses and others evicted without any notice.

Kenyans could soon be forced to adjust their eating habits as the favourite maize meal becomes more scarce due to the effects of climate change.

The Minister for Livestock, Mohammed Kuti, has announced that the European Union has banned its 4,000 tonne quota of meat imports from Kenya.

Preventing infants and young children from becoming undernourished is much more effective than treating children who are already malnourished, according to a new study published in the February 16 issue of leading medical journal, The Lancet.

The food crisis is visiting the world. Hunger is looming and the world is in need of more food everyday.

Regional governments have quickened pace for the formation of a commodity exchange to serve predominant small scale farmers in Eastern and Southern African countries.

Gambians were once again stunned by the resilience of a man that never seizes to amaze his people. President Jammeh's latest "spot check" of important institutions came when it was least expected.

President Abdoulaye Wade has launched a new agricultural programme called GOANA to achieve self-sufficiency in his country, and to tackle the crisis triggered by rising global food prices.

The Lüderitz Crayfish Festival was a major success with organisers saying the entire festival exceeded their expectations.

Sheikh Tijan Sosseh, project coordinator of the Africa Emergency Locust Project (AELP) has said that 113 communities had been compensated for their losses during the locust invasion in 2004.

PARTICIPANTS AT a one-day consultative forum, on the policy document on oil and gas, in Bolgatanga, have expressed divergent views, and given suggestions on areas that the oil revenue could be channeled into, so as to develop the economy of

For sometime it has been difficult for housewives to get a variety of fruits on their tables. The price of some fruits has been rising and others have been scarce or unavailable in the market. Most of them are seasonal

Botswana beef has been described as one commodity that contributed to making Botswana's economy one of the strongest in Africa.

In a pragmatic step to meet up with issues of urgent national importance, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua on Tuesday April 29 in the State House, Abuja met with all the 36 state governors to deliberate on food, security and power.

RAINFALL UPDATE

The following is a statement on the global food crisis made today by World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick after a meeting in Berne, Switzerland of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination:

DES MOINES (AP) — At a time of record ag profits, concerns are mounting that U.S. farmers could be edging toward a financial crisis not seen since the 1980s farm-economy collapse.

With Congress bearing down on yet another farm bill deadline, Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley said early this week there are some items included in the latest Senate proposal that would close loopholes and offset some of the spending items included

With malnutrition contributing 54 per cent of under-five mortality rates in the country, Nutritional experts at a one- day media workshop on "Infant nutrition and young child feeding in Nigeria" have blamed the present poor nutritional statistics on Nigerians ignorant

THE Karamoja region deserves special food aid to ward off imminent starvation, the World Food Programme (WFP) has said.