Agriculture

Forest Activists United and NGOs Refute Herakles Farms Claims on Its Oilpalm Plantation in Cameroon – SBWire

The original press release issued by Herakles Farms , a US company that owns SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon ( SGSOC ) spoke in glowing terms of its proposed palm oil plantation in Cameroon. The NGOs including the Rainforests Resource Development … Continue reading

Palm-oil boom raises conservation concerns – Nature.com

He and others are keenly watching how the RSPO handles a flood of complaints filed this spring against a planned 70,000-hectare oil-palm plantation in Cameroon, for example, in what is seen as a test case of the body’s power to … Continue reading

Fish Farming a Lucrative Business – Worldnews.com

The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east … internet services, health, agriculture, environmental protection and national security.

Hippo gunned down after killing 2 in north Nigeria – Worldnews.com

The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east … internet services, health, agriculture, environmental protection and national security.

Cameroon’s Average Cocoa Exports Rose 2.6% in Week to July 2 – Bloomberg

The cocoa export price from Cameroon’s main port of Douala rose by 2.6 percent, or 30 CFA francs (6 cents), to 1,182 CFA francs a kilogram (2.2 pounds) during the week to yesterday, according to a Bloomberg calculation based on … Continue reading

Britain’s Heritage buys stake in Nigerian oil – Worldnews.com

The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east … internet services, health, agriculture, environmental protection and national security.

‘Wild Heart of the Congo’ Protected as World Heritage – Environment News Service

a multiple use area where agriculture, hunting, logging and safari hunting are permitted. There are five logging concessions bordering the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park and a series of logging and community-use zones in Cameroon. The World …

New Roots’ garden opens – Bronx Times

DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan joined Ellee Igoe, advisor for U.S. food and agriculture programs for IRC; Angele, who fled her native Cameroon and was given sanctuary in the U.S.; Roland Chouloute, deputy director of GreenThumb; Jose …

The lure of elsewhere – The Age

It was the story set in train by a young white French woman returning to the Cameroon of her childhood … Huppert, playing a driven woman who has married into a family that runs a coffee plantation, gives a powerhouse … Continue reading

Cameroon Agrees 282.4 Billion Francs of Loans for Roads, Mining – Bloomberg

Economic growth in Cameroon, Africa’s fourth-biggest cocoa grower, is expected to accelerate to 4.5 percent in 2013 from an estimated 4.1 percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund. The country is rated B by Standard and …