World Food Day: Church World Service urges local agriculture, micronutrients as priorities NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 14, 2008 This year's international World Food Day finds both the developed nations and the globe's poorest battling climate change punishments to agriculture, on top of being mired in a world food crisis now further drained by an international financial meltdown not experienced since ...

THE Ministry of Agriculture has submitted for the consideration and approval of Cabinet, a five-year medium-term strategy aimed at transforming and repositioning the agricultural sector in Barbados.

Leica Geosystems' parent company, Hexagon Group of Sweden, announces the acquisition of Rinex Technology of Perth, Australia, with an office in the Kansas City area. RINEX is one of Australia's premier precision agriculture companies and an emerging contender in the United States, developing and marketing hardware and software for agriculture equipment guidance and implement control.

A symposium on agriculture in the context of climate change entitled 'Addressing the climate challenge - what can agriculture do? Ideas from Europe and beyond' will take place in Brussels on 28 October 2008.

By WILLIAM LANEY Managing Editor Addressing agriculture and other issues important to farmers, candidates for county, state and federal office offered their views and ideas to a group of farmers Monday in an attempt to sway voters.

Church World Service-USA October 14, 2008 NEW YORK, NY -- This year's international World Food Day finds both the developed nations and the globe's poorest battling climate change punishments to agriculture, on top of ...

FORT MORGAN - Marilyn Musgrave and Betsy Markey found a lot of common ground in a debate on agriculture issues Monday.

HA NOI -- North-western provinces needed to fully exploit their potential to not only develop the agricultural sector, but to do it sustainably to improve the competitiveness of agricultural products, Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong said in a conference of north-western agriculture development.

JAPAN plans to increase aid to Uganda to boost agriculture, the deputy ambassador, Kazuaki Kameda, has said.

Senator Saidu Dansadau was a two term senator in the last dispensation. With over three decades as a large scale farmer and now a chief promoter of Mashalla Seed Firm in Gusau, Zamfara state, he speaks on the state of agriculture in the country and why he is missing nothing in the senate.