It is the Chinese in an old but very enduring adage who defined insanity as that act of doing same thing the same way and expecting different results.

Justice Joseph Wowo of the High Court in Banjul yesterday struck out the notice of appeal filed by two convicted cattle rustlers who were sentenced to serve 10 years prison terms each.

For the organisers of the much hyped Jinja Food Festival, the past week will be one they will not forget. Everything that could go wrong went wrong.

Agricultural sector in Akwa Ibom State is to receive a boost by 2010 as the state government plans to spend over N20billion on the sector.

Jacques Diouf, the director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, has felicitated the Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh on the Muslim feast of Eid-Ul-Adha known in the local parlance as Tobaski.

Kenyans faced with hunger have been handed a lifeline at the ongoing climate talks following the unveiling of a plan aimed at boosting agricultural productivity in the face of climate change.

While food is readily available in shops and some political and economic stability is returning in Zimbabwe, vulnerable groups such as children and people living with HIV and AIDS still face a shortage of food.

TOOLS for use in conservation agriculture which used to be imported from Brazil and India are now being made locally thanks to a Food and Agriculture Organization and the government's support.

Organized by the National Institute of Science and Sea Technology, a conference was held on Thursday in Tunis, to take stock of scientific research in the fish farming sector with a view to strengthen this activity and set up new

The price of fish is now stable in the market, following the return of the fishmongers who were away on Tobaski break for the past two weeks.

THE Government has assured farmers in Zambia that farming inputs will be delivered in various locations by this weekend.

Rwanda has unveiled an 'ambitious but a crucial' US$848.1 million four-year plan to boost the agricultural sector.

Editor's note: This was published on the front page of the Monday, 30 November issue of Foroyaa but without the story.

Despite all the calls for expanding the Mozambican financial system into the countryside, the great majority of the country's 128 rural districts still do not have any banks.

Nine villages in Arusha region facing food shortage due to prolonged drought last week received 90 tonnes of maize from a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) known as Hope For Children (HFC) based at Sakina area in the Arusha Municipality.

Ten students who recently graduated from Makerere University's Department of Food Science and Technology have received grants worth $5,000 (about sh10m) each, to set up small-scale food processing enterprises.

THE Government will soon come up with guidelines to levy a Commercial Farmers' Tax as a measure to create a source of revenue for district local governments, the state minister for local government Pereza Ahabwe, has said.

THE US$10 million inputs facility, President Mugabe unveiled at the end of Zanu-PF's Fifth National People's Congress in Harare at the weekend, is a timely intervention given the difficulties farmers are facing in acquiring inputs.

The Ninth Rural Enterprises Project Clients Exhibition and Trade Show has ended at Asamankese in the Eastern Region.

MEATCO will stop slaughtering pigs at its Windhoek abattoir from the middle of January, but alternative measures have been put in place.