Reports

Weekly Introduction: Update of the ITCZ: From August 21-31 2006, the African section of the Intertropical Convergence Zone remained anomalously north of normal. During the final part of August the ITCZ was located near 18.9 degrees north latitude,…

INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background A review of the importance of the agriculture sector, in terms of its contribution to GDP, export earnings and employment, reveals the unchallenged prominence of the sector in the economies of most African countries. For the continent as…

Weekly Introduction:Locust Update: The FAO (http://www.fao.org/ag/locusts/en/info/info/index.html) was last updated on November 29 indicating that the Desert Locust situation remains calm in the summer breeding areas in the Sahel in West Africa. Small-scale breeding is occurring in Mauritania…