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West African farmers learn in their fields

02 May 2012 11:00 BST | Comments (0)
William Settle | Solutions for a hungry world
An FAO "field school" programme is boosting yields and cutting the use of toxic farm chemicals
Micro-irrigation – with Bollywood backup – points to new way to beat hunger

26 August 2011 11:03 BST | Comments (4)
Jerome Bossuet | Climate Conversations
Helping the world's poorest smallholder farmers with water could make a real impact on hunger
Bribes proving costly for West African truckers

16 March 2011 13:37 GMT | Comments (0)
niels-rasmussen | Anti-Corruption Views
The Borderless campaign has provided a better understanding as to why the region has such high transport costs

NEWS:Agencies to vaccinate millions to avert "polio explosion" in Africa
A polio vaccination campaign is to target 111 million children in 20 African countries
NEWS:West Africa experts tested on their disaster response skills
Officials from Benin, Ghana, Mali, Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal take part in simulation of severe influenza pandemic
NEWS:Benin hopes for less destruction from floods - official
Floods are common in Benin but some experts say the scale of last year's flooding was bigger and could be climate-related

A night of fighting in Beirut claims at least two lives and wounds dozens

The Po Valley is shaken by a magnitude 6.0 earthquake