Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture) | Giant African Land Snail Agricultural Threat

They are slimy, they eat just about everything in their path and experts say the Giant African Land Snail is the next invasive species wreaking havoc in South Florida.

Snails might be slow, but the pest could quickly spread to Palm Beach County with the help of commuters without them even knowing. Most at risk according to the Florida Department of Agriculture, are the vital crops that flourish in the region.

Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture) | African Agriculture Has Real Potential

Although structural impediments such as poor logistics render the search for new avenues of deeper intra-African trade challenging' there is an immediate and compelling growth potential in the trade of agricultural products' Standard Bank research analyst Simon Freemantle said last week.

Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture) | Severest drought in the U.S. since the 1930s

Severest drought in the U.S. since the 1930s

Glencore International Plc (GLEN) and Bunge Ltd. (BG) expect lower prices for agricultural commodities in the coming season after the most severe drought in the U.S. since the 1930s drove corn and soybeans to records last year.

Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture) | Small scale farming in Kebbi

Nigeria: Bank of Agriculture will partner with Kebbi State Government to boost small scale farming in the state by expending 1 to 2 billion naira as funding support to assist small scale farmers in collaboration with Kebbi State Government.

Full story: allAfrica.com
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Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture) | Making Agricultural Investments Work for Africa

AWEPA is collaborating with the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) to organize a two-day seminar on "Making Agricultural Investments Work for Africa: the Role of Parliamentarians" in Kigali, Rwanda, on 26-27 April 2013.

Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture) | $80bn in Agricultural Investments

Growth Green Agriculture (GG Agriculture) | Arab World needs US$ 80.65 billion in agricultural investment to close the widening food gap, H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance, said today.

In his keynote address today to the Annual Meeting of Arab Financial Institutions and the Fourth Meeting for the Council of Arab Finance Ministers, Sheikh Hamdan stressed that the UAE's initiative to enhance economic stability in the Arab region, which it presented in September 2011 in Abu Dhabi, considers an important step in the march of joint Arab economic.

Small growers 'big role' in hunger reduction

Small-scale producers, local production and consumption circuits and recovering traditional crops have a major part to play in reducing hunger, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told professors and students at the University of Gastronomic Sciences recently, also noting the many possibilities of cooperation between FAO and the university to fulfil the vision of a hunger-free and sustainable world.

He said that the Green Revolution of the 1960s had increased per capita availability of food by over 40 percent, but at the cost of a loss of food diversity because of a focus on a few crops and significant impact on the environment from intensive use of chemical inputs.