Group Steps Up Effort to Combat Hunger in Africa
June 29, 2010 – IFDC, based in Muscle Shoals, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the African Union Commission. The agreement will help the two groups work more closely together on programs "aimed at improving agricultural, economic and social development on the African continent." (TimesDaily)
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Shoals Agency Signs New Contract to Further Combat Hunger in Africa
June 28, 2010 – IFDC signed an agreement today with the African Union to work more closely to reduce hunger through agricultural development. (TimesDaily)
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COMESA Signs MOUs for Implementation of COMRAP
June 28, 2010
– COMESA will launch its Regional Agro-Inputs Program (COMRAP) on July 20 in Lusaka, Zambia. (The Post Online)
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CEPGL States to Jointly Exploit Rusizi Marshland
June 21, 2010 – A rice project will soon be launched in the three member countries of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL) – Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. (The New Times)
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Kyrgyz Farmers Need New, Efficient Machinery
June 17, 2010 – The Kyrgyz Agro-Input Enterprise Development II (KAED II) project held an exhibition of agricultural machinery in northern Kyrgyzstan earlier this month. (The Times of Central Asia)
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AGRA Supports Northern Farmers to Access Markets
June 12, 2010 – AGRA has launched the Linking Farmers to Markets project in Ghana to help farmers access markets for staple crops such as rice, soybean, maize and sorghum.(The Mirror)
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Virtual Fertilizer Research Center
June 2010 – Seventy percent of the world’s synthetic fertilizer was developed in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. (Alabama Farmers and Consumers Bulletin)
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