Rapports

Johannesburg, 23 November 2010 (IRIN) - Africa has struggled to make accurate and detailed predictions of the impact of climate change on its countries, but the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) which began earlier in 2010, will see…

Nigeria's main militant group said one of its commanders and 62 of his followers were not captured by the military, but rather turned themselves in for a promised cash reward. The military had said it arrested the militants Friday in…

19 Nov 2010 17:23:57 GMT Source: Reuters By Ibrahim Mshelizza MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire during Friday prayers at a mosque in a northeastern Nigeria, killing at least two people in the latest in a series of…

Around the world, it is recognized in agricultural production and processing that energy (farm power) is perhaps the second most important input besides land). Yet the agricultural sector in Nigeria has access to less than one percent of the…

The timely availability of seeds at planting time is considered one of the important factors for faster improved seed adoption in Nigeria. There is a lack of empirical information on how much more farmers are willing to pay (WTP)…

Despite many efforts to ease Nigerian farmers' access to quality and affordable fertilizer, it remains a key challenge for Nigerian agricultural policymakers As a result, the Nigerian government is experimenting with implementing a fertilizer voucher scheme, which is intended to…

The majority of Nigeria's smallholder farmers are often too poor to employ modern tools, such as tractors and plows, even with substantial government support. In this respect, an agricultural mechanization policy would need effective targeting with regard to particular farming…

Small-scale private irrigation (SPRI) schemes make up much of the irrigated areas in Nigeria. These irrigated areas, though, are only about three percent of the cultivated area in the country. Constraints on SPRI expansion are investigated by many studies in Nigeria,…

ABUJA, 12 November 2010-Today the First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan, UNICEF and other partners marked World Pneumonia Day at the State House in Abuja as part of a global movement to fight a disease that in Nigeria…

03 Nov 2010 18:43:57 GMT Source: Reuters (Adds quotes, details) PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, Nov 3 (Reuters) - An explosion rocked a government guest house in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta on Wednesday, a month after twin car bombings in the capital Abuja, a…