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N° 143 - October 2009

Front page

Food crisis 


Tackling price instability


Dossier

African cotton

Falling prices, falling output


A global crisis with limited solutions 


Report from Burkina Faso


Focus

Bamboo


From bikes to biofuels


An extraordinary plant with many uses



Viewpoint

Ensuring a return on one’s investment


By Ameenah Gurib-Fakim


Between us

  • New website... new weblog

  • Livestock briefing

  • An e-forum for GIs

  • Mailbox

In brief

  • Learning with videos

  • Beehive fence deters elephants

  • Sustainable fishing contest

  • Patients turn farmers

  • Yellow cassava

  • Improved seeds at an affordable price

  • Precious farming

  • Coconut: the great all rounder

  • True rum

  • Sorting the grain

  • Cultivating algae

  • Cash from carbon

  • Green energy

  • Smart pen ticks right boxes


Publications

  • African vegetables

  • Quality potatoes

  • Powerful assets

  • Ecosystem services

  • Time for change

  • Processing techniques

  • Cash incentives

  • Getting ready

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