What does a poor farmer in Cameroon do when he wants to modernize his farm? Knowledge in this west African country is passed down from generation to generation but that has limits, particularly for an enterprising farmer. The solution is to pick up the phone and call Allo Ingenieur where an agricultural expert is always on call.

A Cameroon court sentenced a poacher to five years in jail and a hefty fine for killing eight elephants, a government official said on Tuesday.

After a tip-off from villagers, a 23-strong search party of paramilitary gendarmes, government officials and park guards caught Job Akah, 33, with nine elephant tusks and eight tails in a remote village near a national park, the official said.

Mt. Cameroon, part of the Cameroon Highlands ecoregion, is the highest peak in West/Central Africa. The Cameroon Highlands is a biodiversity hotspot and its fertile volcanic soil has also made it a hotspot for both subsistence and commercial agricultural activities since the late 19th century.

The Centre province of Cameroon is facing both soil degradation problem in rural areas and the household waste management problem in Yaound

This paper assesses the economic costs of illness from the disposal of the Yaound

Si vous avez des problemes en agriculture ou en elevage. Call Allo Ingenieur for farm problems What does a poor farmer in Cameroon do when he wants to modernize his farm? Knowledge in this west African country is passed down from generation to generation but that has limits, particularly for an enterprising farmer. The solution is to pick up the phone

In the face of soaring food prices, the government of Cameroon has launched an emergency plan to boost local food production and make the country an agriculture-based economy. Cameroon, which

Rising food prices may derail biofuels policy

Record global food prices will be on the agenda of the Group of Eight heads of state summit in July for the first time in almost 30 years, amid mounting concerns about the social, political and economic impact of the food crisis. The International Monetary Fund on Monday gave its starkest warning about the impact of rising commodities, saying food and oil prices "risk becoming a destabilising force in the global economy'. Yasuo Fukuda, Japan's prime minister, said in a letter to his G8 colleagues that soaring food prices were posing "imminent and serious' global challenges.

THE World Bank has issued an urgent call to rich nations to help stem rising food prices, warning that social unrest in poor countries is spreading and that 100 million people are at risk of being plunged deeper into poverty. "We have to put our money where our mouth is now, so that we can put food into hungry mouths. It is as stark as that," said World Bank president Robert Zoellick, as he called for more contributions to the $500 million World Food Program.

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