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1.	Guinea: Breastfeeding versus old wives tales
	Author: Correspondant	Date Written: 3 September 2012
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Youth & Children	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: Guinea, breastfeeding, children, infants, health
	Summary & Comment: Countless babies in Guinea are not given their first breast milk for hours - however long it takes a designated family member to bring water that is used to rinse special Koranic verses inscribed on a wooden tablet. This symbolic liquid, the first thing many babies ingest, is just one example of a custom believed to protect children but that can in . . . [expand]
2.	Ethiopia: Food security and the Meles’ legacy
	Author: Correspondant	Date Written: 22 August 2012
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: food security, Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi
	Summary & Comment: During his two decades in power, Meles Zenawi committed himself to ending Ethiopia’s dependence on food aid. Meles’ regime is credited with having pioneered schemes designed to protect the poor such as the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), a Social Cash Transfer Pilot Programme, and the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange. AA
3.	DRC farmers reap benefits of soil fertility
	Author: Baudry Aluma	Date Written: 6 August 2012
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: Inter Press Service
	Secondary Category: Central Region	Source URL: http://www.ipsnews.net
	Key Words: DRC, rice, fertilizer, food security, Democratic Republic of Congo
	Summary & Comment: Smallholder rice farmers in the Ruzizi plain in the eastern DRC have sharply increased their production as a result of incorporating Integrated Soil Fertility Management techniques being promoted by a Dutch NGO. The International Fertiliser Development Centre encourages the use of mineral fertilizers and subsidized the distribution of fertilizers i . . . [expand]
4.	Public should be consulted over GMOs’
	Author: James Muyanwa	Date Written: 26 July 2012
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: Times of Zambia
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.times.co.zm/
	Key Words: Zambia, Kenya, GMO’s, public consultation
	Summary & Comment: BioSafety, particularly as relating to GMO crops, was the theme of a week-long programme in Kenya that was sponsored by Africa Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE), an organisation under the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). ...Zambia’s NBA( National Biosafety Authority) had not handled any application to either import or transpor . . . [expand]
5.	Senegal: Making cashews pay
	Author: IRIN	Date Written: 13 July 2012
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org
	Key Words: Senegal, cashew, export
	Summary & Comment: Cashew farmers in Senegal are often forced to sell their produce at relatively low prices to middlemen who export them – mainly to Brazil and India – and get most of the profits. Since processed nuts sell for a much better price than the raw nuts, foreign aid agencies and a local chamber of commerce are encouraging producers and processors to organ . . . [expand]
6.	Somalia’s low rains, internal conflict threatening food recovery efforts
	Author: N.A. Pierre	Date Written: 9 July 2012
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: AfricaFiles
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://AfricaFiles
	Key Words: Somalia, drought, food crisis, conflict
	Summary & Comment: Drought, political infighting and opposition to international aid have combined to create a food crisis in Somalia. While the World Bank doesn't believe a famine will ensue, they admit the situation is very serious, particularly in southern regions of the country. CJW
7.	Nigeria: Owning up to food insecurity in the north
	Author: IRIN	Date Written: 28 June 2012
	Primary Category: Food and Land	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org
	Key Words: food security, aid, Sahel, Nigeria
	Summary & Comment: The effects of the lean season in northern Nigeria will be particularly acute this year given the disruptive activities of the Boko Haram militant group, high transport costs, last year’s low production, and the outflow of grain to drought-stricken Niger. Humanitarian organizations have set up centres where children with severe malnutrition can be . . . [expand]