Agriculture

SOFTS HIGHLIGHTS: Top Stories Of The Day – NASDAQ

Armed Attacks Hurt Central Cameroon Cocoa Trade YAOUNDE, Cameroon (Dow Jones)–Armed attacks on cocoa traders in Cameroon’s Center Region are slowing cocoa sales at the height of marketing season during harvesting of the year’s second main crop …

Cameroon cocoa prices dip as beans hit market – Reuters

YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cocoa farm-gate prices in Cameroon have dropped since last month as production has increased, farmers said on Monday. An easing of rains in the world’s fifth-largest grower has also improved bean drying operations and made …

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS HOLDS DISCUSSION WITH NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS – UN News Centre

make a national strategy to guarantee food sovereignty for Cameroon, and improve the current ineffective early warning system. The Government also needed to develop a viable giant agricultural economy with small holder farmers at the centre of production …

Cargill Announces Memorandum of Understanding to Support Cocoa Sector in Cote d’Ivoire – Newsblaze.com

The agreement with ANADER was signed at a ceremony in Abidjan by the Minister of Agriculture for Cote d’Ivoire … handling and/or exporting of cocoa beans in Brazil, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Indonesia and Vietnam. Presence in all the leading …

Cameroon: Demographic growth and development – Global Voices Online.org

Shema reports on his conversation with Dr. Fassa Daniel Tolno regarding the connections between the population and development in Cameroon. On … the level of urbanization and the efforts on agriculture, human resources and industrialization …

Cargill to invest $3.25 mln in Ivory Coast cocoa – Reuters

Cargill also buys cocoa beans in Brazil, Cameroon, Indonesia and Vietnam. It markets Gerkens cocoa powders, chocolates including the Wilbur, Peter’s and Veliche brands, and coatings, fillings, cocoa liquors and cocoa butters.

US Africa Policy Assailed by Africans – Uruk Net

“Yesterday it was slavery, then colonialism and now the dictators Obama, [British Prime Minister David] Cameroon and [French President Nicolas … for the Ivory Coast from its major export – cocoa used to make chocolate. (In its day Ivory Coast … Continue reading

The Soft Spot(34) – Inside Futures

When it comes to cocoa growing regions in Cameroon there’s trouble in River City. Or perhaps I should say the city is a river! Cocoa farmers in Cameroon have a very serious outbreak of black pod disease on their hands. … Continue reading

Reporter and cop open on talks on terror – The Australian

AN exclusive story revealing the details of a dramatic anti-terror raid began with a cryptic email about “something brewing” within Australia’s Somali community, a shared coffee at a Southbank … Australian’s associate editor Cameron Stewart said Victoria …

Trade pact with Australia ’ll boost FG’s agenda –Sen Sankara – Daily Sun

Solid minerals, oil and gas and agricultural development were the key issues and … In the same manner, British Prime MinisterDavid Cameroon, announced that Britain would give additional £40 million towards polio eradication.