World Briefing | Africa: Ghana: Breeding Plant Breeders
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The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa said it would develop a center to train African scientists to develop hardier, higher-yielding varieties of crops.
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Â· More digestible feedstuff reduces production of gasÂ· Farmers could switch to different grass varieties
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By JIM PAUL    URBANA, Ill.  -- Plant geneticist Ted Hymowitz knew that finding an allergy-free soybean would take a painstaking search through thousands of varieties...
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PARIS, Feb 2 (IPS) - Human development in the countries of Africa, Latin   America and Asia is essential for protecting the diversity of  plant and  animal species, says biologist Edward O. Wilson,  professor emeritus of  Harvard University and one of the  ''fathers'' of the concept of  biodiversity.
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AFRICA/GHANA - ÂLÂamore e il rispetto dei valori sono indispensabili per affrontare le cause profonde della pandemia dellÂAIDSÂ dicono i Vescovi africani Accra (Agenzia Fides)- ÂSiamo profondamente preoccupati dalla vastitÃ  della diffusione dellÂAIDS e del virus HIV, dalle condizioni che ne permettono la propagazione e dalle sue conseguenzeÂ  afferma Mons. John Onaiyekan, Arcivescovo di Abuja (Nigeria...
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Life & style: We burn fossil fuel in the developed world - and plant trees in Africa. It sounds like a win-win situation. But is it? Mark Honigsbaum reports.
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The African nation produces more maize than neighbors Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania combined.
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Safe no more: An acute global shortage in contraceptives has experts in Africa predicting a population explosion and a frightening spread of AIDS.
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KAMPALA, Aug 29  (IPS) - Coffee producers in Uganda suffer from an unfair  trade relationship with Europe, even though their beans produce  some of the best quality coffee in the world, says the Ugandan  coffee industry&#39s governing body.
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By Schaffer, Daniel; Masood, Ehsan; Ndege, Yvonne; Bagla, Pallava; Mantell, Katie  Up to a billion people live in the drylands of the developing world.
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Shortages of crop-dusting planes and pesticide are continuing to hamper locust control operations in West Africa, where new swarms of young insects are forming in southern Mauritania, northern Senegal and parts of Niger, the UN Food and Agriculture
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On a warm, dry evening 50 years ago, thousands of people packed the old polo ground in Accra, capital of the soon-to-be-independent country of Ghana. Ernest Tetteh was in his final year of high school and recalled that the atmosphere turned electric as midnight neared.
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LONDON, Nov 17 (IPS) - Malaria is billed as top priority in a new health   initiative being launched in Africa this week.
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Stable Micro Sys. In the wake of last month's Commission decision that paved the way for EU farmers to commercially grow up to 17 different types of GM maize seeds, the agriculture minister Gianni Alemanno had ...
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Science & environment: Scientists create human embryos in procedure to try to fight serious inherited diseases
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Science & environment: Consequences of contamination between GM crops and non-GM varietiesare set to worsen, scientists  warn
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PARIS, Aug 23 (IPS) - A highly profitable industry has blossomed in  &quot;the Pearl of Africa&quot;, yielding not only exceptional  returns on investment but helping raise labour standards. Rising  from nearly zero production ten years ago, Uganda has emerged as  a global power in the floricultural world and is now Africa&#39s  fifth largest exporter of cut flowers.