LIVESTOCK AND ENVIRONMENT NEWS
ALL AFRICA | Recrudescence of Conflicts Between Baboons And Some Communities in CRD South | May 3, 2002
Reports on clashes between baboon and some communities in LRD that was followed by the publication of numerous letters and articles in your paper advancing temporary or permanent conflict resolution strategies are still fresh in the minds of many people.
ALL AFRICA | Food-for-Work Plan Launched | May 3, 2002
A food-for-work programme is to be started in West Pokot District following the discontinuation of emergency food supplies to famine-stricken residents.
ALL AFRICA | Youths Make Inroads Into Poultry, Horticulture | April 30, 2002
The Youth Agricultural Extension Service has made significant inroads into horticulture and poultry business.
ALL AFRICA | Rural Communities Need to Benefit From Wildlife | April 29, 2002
The Southern African Development Community should assist rural communities in the member states to contribute to economic growth by fully participating in wildlife activities.
ALL AFRICA | Proper Land Management to Insure Poverty Alleviation | April 26, 2002
Scholars attending the three-day workshop organized by the international Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) under the theme 'Reducing Hunger, Poverty and Environmental Degradation in the Highlands' said that proper land management is an important instrument to fight poverty.
ALL AFRICA | Combating Desertification And Deforestation | April 23, 2002
The alarming speed at which the Sahara Desert is devastating Nigeria's lands and forest is no longer any news to all the tiers of government. In fact, it is also no news to those our compatriots whose source of livelihood is daily threatened by the menace.
ALL AFRICA | Concern Over Livestock Health | April 19, 2002
Agriculture Minister, Dr Bonaya Godana has called for concerted efforts in tackling increased diseases among pastoral communities' livestock.
ALL AFRICA | Rural Folk Need Incentives to Preserve Wildlife | April 4, 2002
RURAL landowners, communities and villagers should be given incentives to encourage them to preserve wildlife, Safari Club International director of wildlife conservation, Mr Rick Parsons said.
ALL AFRICA | Farmers Advised to Consider Wildlife | March 25, 2002
SOME commercial farms acquired for resettlement in dry and marginal areas will be more productive if they are used for wildlife by the resettled communities as this will also redress serious imbalances in the tourism sector, the Minister of Environment and Tourism, Cde Francis Nhema said last Friday.
CNN | Study: Trace amounts of chemicals in streams | March 13, 2002
A government survey of 139 streams in 30 states turned up small quantities of a host of manmade chemicals, including antibiotics, other prescription drugs, veterinary drugs, hormones, steroids and fire retardants.
ALL AFRICA | Life Saving System Launched in Somali Region | March 1, 2002
For the pastoralists living in Somali Region, it will be a lifesaver. When the famine struck in 2000, tragically it was the rapidly escalating toll of death that finally alerted the world to the crisis. But a British Aid Agency is now at the forefront of a system that will act as the eyes and ears of the international community and raise the alarm to any future crisis.
ALL AFRICA | Serengeti Lion Population Rises By Over 1,000 | February 18, 2002
THE NUMBER of lions in the Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania has been increasing steadily since an outbreak of the cauche distemper virus killed up to 1,000 lions in 1999.
BBC NEWS | Farming faces major shake-up
| January 29, 2002
A "watershed" report into food production and farming in England has called for reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy, arguing the current situation is unsustainable.
BBC NEWS | Wary welcome for farming report | January 29, 2002
Farmers have given a cautious welcome to a UK Government report on the future of English farming which urges them to become "guardians of the countryside".
BBC NEWS | Ethiopia's forests face extinction | January 17, 2002
Ethiopia could have no natural forests left by 2020, according to the author of a new UN report on forest fires in Ethiopia.