Contents
Focus on: Natural fibres
- Building capacity for change in Peru's alpaca sector
- Coir - a fibre for the future?
- Kyrgyzstan - cashing in on cashmere
- Sustainable sisal in Tanzania
- Three bags full - the black sheep of Deccan
- Awash with cotton
- Going wild for silk in Zimbabwe
Points of view
Developments
- Innovation systems: a testing process
- Predicting and coping with climate change in Africa
- Voting for vetiver in Ethiopia
- Cocoa video - Ghana's television extension
Book reviews
- Bottomfeeder - how to eat sustainably in a world of vanishing seafood
- Sustainable agriculture and food security in an era of oil scarcity - lessons from Cuba
- Confessions of an eco sinner
- The history of development
- State of the world 2009: Confronting climate change
- Earth: The sequel: The race to reinvent energy and stop global warming
- Agriculture in urban planning: Generating livelihoods and food security
- Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards
News brief
- Concerns as swine flu continues to spread
- 'Megadrought' in store for West Africa
- Food production must double - WFP
- Banned pesticide still in use
- Joint effort to combat wheat rust
- Piracy disrupts emergency food distribution
- Bioenergy can benefit the rural poor
- Humanitarian system needs urgent reforms
- Iraq's water woes
- Agriculture sector under threat in Yemen
- Race to prevent chocolate shortage
- Cyclone Jade adds to Madagascar's misery
- Regional cooperation needed to save marine environment
- Diagnosing crop diseases with mobile phones
- Forestry could provide ten million jobs worldwide
My perspective
Country profile
In pictures
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May 2009
May 2009
