Contents
Focus on: African banana - on an upward curve
- Bananas - beware the bad bunch
- A new take on 'matooke'
- Improving the banana 'value chain' in East Africa
- A ripe time for Somali bananas?
- Rearing its ugly head - bunchy top disease
- TC bananas bear fruit
- From black to green gold in the Niger Delta
Points of view
Developments
- Baobab - trading the once-forbidden fruit
- Keeping the genes: recognition of local livestock breeds
- Honduras - a fair exchange
- Ethiopia and the climate - change or chance it
Book reviews
News brief
- Record wheat harvest no cause for celebration
- Land grabs 'a new form of colonialism'
- International Year of Natural Fibres unveiled
- Fears over fertiliser
- Arsenic in the Mekong
- Cocoa prices soar
- DFID announces help for Rwanda's farmers
- Reclamation crop blamed for Yemen floods
- Central Asia facing fisheries crisis
- Ebola discovered in Filipino pigs
- Bingu double for agricultural reform
- African agriculture and forests key to climate change mitigation
My perspective
Country profile
In pictures
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January 2009
January 2009
