1. Agriculture in Africa offers great new opportunities but old challenges remain
2. Organic cotton production grows 152 percent in 2007/2008
3. Ghana, Nigeria benefit from cocoa research grants
4. Civil society groups lobby against Kenyan Biosafety Bill
5. Land tensions fester in Ivory Coast before November election
6. Rwanda receives $135 million World Bank agricultural development loan
7. Tanzanian tea output may rise 33% by 2011-12
8. Appropriate technology irrigation pumps sell well in Africa
9. Pedal-powered maize sheller to be tested in Tanzania
10. UK biofuel company expects 1,000 tonnes jatropha oil by year-end