Poor roads cost Cameroon cocoa farmers dear
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KUMBA, Cameroon  - Farmer Lawrence Mekoli has just sold eight 60-kg sacks of cocoa and earned the equivalent of hundreds of dollars. But he is far from happy.
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World cocoa prices were down on Tuesday but off the day&#39;s lows as exports remained on hold after mob violence and military clashes in Ivory Coast, the key global supplier, traders said.
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Many of the world's poorest people are unable to get enough food because of soaring prices partly caused by the use of food crops to produce biofuels, the head of the U.N. food agency said.
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Democratic Republic of Congo is banning right-hand drive cars in an effort to improve dire road safety, angering drivers in the vast country&#39;s south and east where most vehicles have the steering wheel on the right.
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Poor farmersâ simple methods have helped lead to millions of newly tree-covered acres in a dust-choked region.
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The company reports disease problems on banana plantations.
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'A master class in bad decision making' Rushed testing of IT and poor management led to the failure of the single payments scheme for farmers, says a parliamentary report.â¦
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Unions are threatening a general strike in the Ivory Coast in a protest against the prices farmers are paid for their cocoa supplies.
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Higher raw material costs will be a burden for the tire-maker.
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Allegations of fraud marred legislative elections in Cameroon on Sunday amid opposition claims President Paul Biya was trying to preserve his stranglehold over the west African nation at any cost.
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The agricultural operator's shortfall? Taxes.
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To judge how far aid has helped Africa along the road to prosperity, just look down at the pavement Â or the lack of it.
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Privatisation and trade liberalisation policies foisted on developing countries in return for financial help are often bad for the poor, according to a confidential government paper.
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Villagers in northwestern Cameroon have burned down some 300 homes and forced thousands of people to flee a rival settlement in a dispute over farming land, a senior local official said on Wednesday.
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A short drive away from  Nigeria's capital Abuja, with its air-conditioned villas and  ministers in luxury cars, life for many in the town of Maraba  is a daily struggle to eat.
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Â·  Colombian farmers driven out as armed groups profit Â·  Lucrative 'green' crop less risky to grow than coca
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After years of drought Zambia is exporting its maize surplus to neighbouring countries, says the deputy agriculture minister.