When the Live Earth global concerts kick off Saturday for a weekend of raising climate-change awareness, part of the focus will be on Africa, which is likely to be hit particularly hard by climate change, even though it is the lowest emitter of greenhouse gases. The rainy season in this largely poor southern African nation, a study shows, has been getting shorter, more intense and more erratic, especially over the last 20 years - symptoms of longer-term climatic changes occurring across Africa.

However, while supplies of the green fuel are set to surge, it is likely to remain marginal with just a 2% slice of the energy market, the IEA said. It also echoed warnings issued in an Organisation for Economic Development report that rapidly growing biofuel market will increase the price of certain feedstocks - such as sugar and corn - over the coming year. World oil demand will rise faster than expected, while supplies will remain tight, the latest International Energy Agency (IEA)...

In advanced capitalist countries like the United States, a deadly combination of economies of scale, capital-intensive technology, and the market led to large corporations cornering agricultural production and processing. At the same time, under the pretext of controlling the heavy subsidization of agriculture in developed countries, the AOA institutionalized the various channels through which subsidies flowed, such as export subsidies and direct cash payments to farming interests in the...

The plastic intensifies the sunlight, increasing the soil temperature by as much as fifteen degrees, which is why the first crop of Grimes sweet corn was ready by June 26th this year. Channel 13's Mark Tauscheck visited a stand to find out who's pushing the corn on our city streets. The Christiansen family planted their first sweet corn in the early 90s. So many plantings is unusual, not many farmers line their cornrows with plastic either. With the stream of locals with cash in hand, he...

It added that grain prices were expected to stay higher than in the past 10 years, which would also have an indirect effect on prices for livestock products due to higher feed stocks. PARIS The rapid growth of the world s biofuel industry is likely to keep farm commodity prices at high levels in the next decade as it will boost demand for grains, oilseeds and sugar, a major study said on Wednesday. Made of grain, oilseeds and sugar, the "green" fuels are expected to lower dependence on...

Department of Agriculture last month forecast a huge increase in corn acreage this year, leading to speculation that the 2007 corn crop could reach as much as 13 billion bushels. North Platte Telegraph - Corn yield on the rise? Monsanto, the agriculture biotechnology corporation and the leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate known as Round Up, will spend $800 million on biotechnology and breeding in 2008, in an effort to increase corn yields through drought-resistant and...