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Africa and Agricultural Reform

Why rural development programmes throughout Africa have failed

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The Power of Vegetables

What makes up a balanced diet - and why are vegetables so important?

• 13 mins

Vietnam: Rice Producer

Vietnam is now the third largest exporter of rice but farmers must also feed themselves

• 13 mins

Gambia's President Opens the Royal Agricultural Show

Sir Dawda Jawara, President of the Gambia, opens the Royal Agricultural Show in the UK

• 14 mins

Poultry and Science at the Royal Agricultural Show

Latest farming developments, crops and poultry at the Royal Agricultural Show

• 14 mins

Global Cereal Harvest Will Not Be Enough

Why an increase of 3% in the global cereal harvest is not enough to alleviate famine

• 13 mins

Radical Guide to the World Food System

First understand the system and then the necessary changes become obvious, says author

• 14 mins

Agricultural Cost of War in Rwanda

Crops with no one to harvest them, lost varieties of staple foods - the legacy of war

• 13 mins

Camels for the Nomads of Northern Kenya

Farm-Africa's camel team travels with the nomadic pasturalists in Northern Kenya

• 13 mins

Saving the Soil of Guatemala

Solving problems of soil erosion and irrigation in Guatemala

• 14 mins

An End to Endoparasites?

Ways of eradicating livestock endoparasites in African countries with no access to drugs

• 13 mins

Can the Cassava Mosaic Virus Be Stopped?

The cassava mosaic virus is causing crop loss and food shortages in eastern Africa

• 13 mins

Africa's Food Crisis

'Political stabilities are not built on empty stomachs,' says Norman Borlaug

• 13 mins

Will Fish Farming Succeed in Africa?

Can fish farms make up the shortfall of fish in Africa?

• 13 mins

Carbon Capture in Colombia

How carbon dioxide is being "captured" by new plantings on Colombian savannah

• 13 mins

Albania's Farming Revolution

From state farms to independent farmers, Albania's agricultural revolution of the 1990s

• 13 mins

Can Multiple-Crop Canopies Work?

Stopping plants' shade-avoidance response might be the secret of multiple-crop canopies

• 12 mins

Water: Our Most Precious Resource

Water for Life is the theme of UN Food Day this week

• 13 mins

Turkey's GAP Project

Turkey's 22-dam GAP project will generating electricity and provide irrigation

• 14 mins

Nitrogen-Fixing Rice Varieties

New nitrogen-fixing rice varieties mean greater yields with less fertilzers

• 13 mins

Agricultural Scientist Thomas Hargrove Kidnapped in Colombia

CIAT researcher Thomas Hargrove is missing, presumed kidnapped, in Colombia

• 13 mins

Central America's Small-holders

How small-scale farmers struggle to survive in Panama and Costa Rica

• 14 mins

Global Exodus from Rural to Urban Areas

Better quality of life for farmers will combat global threat of urbanization

• 12 mins

Royal Smithfield Show: Farming Comes to London

Livestock and new farming developments at the Royal Smithfield Show, London

• 13 mins

Aids Crisis in Rural Uganda

How farming communities are suffering with the Aids epidemic

• 14 mins

Agrochemical Residues in Our Food

Testing and regulating fertiliser, hormone and other chemical residues in farm produce

• 13 mins

In Praise of Urban Farmers

Celebrating the 200 million urban farmers worldwide who help feed 700 million people

• 13 mins

Something Different for Christmas

Farmers round the world doing something a little different at Christmas time

• 14 mins

Tobacco: a Demanding and Risky Crop

Why tobacco isn't always profitable for the small farmers of central and eastern Africa

• 13 mins

The Pesticide Problem

Use of chemical insecticides is causing more problems than gains in many countries

• 13 mins