Contents
Focus on: Alternative livelihoods
- Fields of red gold - saffron in Afghanistan
- A mushrooming business in Tanzania
- Jatropha: creating desert solutions
- Beyond palm oil in Indonesia
- Weaving a sustainable future with Kenyan silk
- From coca to coffee in Peru
- Andiroba - first aid from the Amazon
- Breaking the addiction to growing tobacco
Points of view
Developments
- Halting China's fertiliser frenzy
- Galvanising action against livestock disease
- Something in the air
- Leather goods - Argentina's brand new vision
- A sweet tooth for organic cocoa
Book reviews
- The gene revolution: GM crops and unequal development
- Dryland agriculture
- Growing food: a guide to food production
- Debating shifting cultivation in the Eastern Himalayas: Farmers' innovations as lessons for policy
- Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition in the Tropics and Subtropics
- Strategies for Sustainable Land Management in the East African Highlands
- The state of food insecurity in the world 2006
- Tropical Dairy Farming
News brief
- ECOWAS welcomes biotechnology
- Uganda's forest under threat
- Poverty is declining, says World Bank
- New pigeon pea to spark pulse revolution
- Experts needed for peer review of IAASTD reports
- A new foot-and-mouth disease 'roadmap'
- Guidelines for growing Artemisia for anti-malarial medicine
- Venezuelan support for West Africa
- Safflower and rice as pharmaceutical crops
- Prize-winning work for the environment
- Methane technology for Tanzanian coffee farmers
- Climate divide
- Training saves costs in China
- HIV/AIDS and food security
My perspective
Country profile
In pictures
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May 2007
May 2007
