The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group Board approved on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 in Tunis, the institution’s 2010-2014 Agricultural Sector Strategy. The strategy seeks to position the institution to effectively contribute to broader development of greater agricultural productivity, food security and poverty reduction while promoting the conservation of the natural resource base. Based on wide stakeholder-consultations, the Strategy focuses on Agricultural Infrastructure and Renewable Natural Resource Management. – two mutually reinforcing pillars where the Bank Group has demonstrated considerable competence and comparative advantage.
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Ils ont été appréhendés en possession de 400 espèces protégées
Par Pierre Alexis Kaptchoung
Le butin était constitué entre autre de plus de 400 pièces de gibier boucané de morceaux frais de gorille, de sanglier, de gros singes entiers, des crocodiles et pangolins vivant ou morts. Ces espèces sont protégées par la loi de 1994 portant sur la forêt et la faune. La saisie a eu lieu mardi dernier sur l’une des pistes qui relie les localités de Dimako, dans le Haut-Nyong et Bouam dans le Lom et Djerem. Pistes fréquentées essentiellement par les braconniers, selon les déclarations du chef de service régional de la Faune à la délégation régionale du Minfof pour l’Est, Oscar Tchuisseu qui a fait savoir que les fautifs se seraient ravitaillés dans la zone où était installée la société forestière Sebec.
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"To attain an acceptable level of food security and sufficiency, African countries need tough new land reforms, which must favor mechanized methods of food production and, unfortunately, disfavor subsistence farming which, after many centuries of service, has failed to live up to the expectations of most Africans."
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Will Benin be self-sufficient in rice one day? Experts at FAO are forecasting just that, and going so far as to say that in time - probably as soon as 2011 - this West African country will even export its surplus rice output. A two-pronged strategy based on intensifying production and marketing of high quality seeds is behind the predicted «miracle». As part of the campaign, a US$500,000 FAO project, due to begin in September 2009, will help Benin achieve an ambitious goal: that of producing 300,000 tonnes of rice - more than double current output - by 2011. To do that, the country will have to produce more than 2,200 tonnes of high quality rice seeds each year.
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By Christopher Ambe Shu
The 17 billion Francs CFA Rumpi Project -placed under the Southwest Development Authority, SOWEDA, has requested for the extension of its execution period by one year in order to ensure full implementation of its activities. The Rumpi Project, conceived for a six-year life span, kicked off in 2004,with the goal of reducing poverty in rural areas of the Southwest region by increasing their incomes in a sustainable manner, through improving agricultural output as well as their socio-economic environment.
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Food stamp list swells to record 32.2 million
By Charles Abbott
A record 32.2 million people -- one in every 10 Americans -- received food stamps at latest count, the government said on Thursday, a reflection of the recession now in its 16th month. Food stamps are the major U.S. antihunger program and help poor people buy groceries. The average benefit was $112.82 per person in January. The January figure marks the third time in five months that enrollment set a record.
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