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Namibia's small oyster industry lost millions of oysters during the recent algae bloom or 'red tide' - it cut production by up to 70 per cent and has delayed foreign market expansion by up to a year.

Men are at much higher risk of becoming lost from HIV care programmes according to an analysis of clients attending USAID-AMPATH partnership’s HIV clinics in Western Kenya.

A recent CIMMYT study found that restrictive national policies, lack of credit opportunities, inadequate seed production capacities, insufficient numbers of recently released public sector varieties, and challenging marketing situations were the main reasons why maize seed sector growth is slow in many African countries

Three East African Universities have benefited from part of USD1.6 million grant from Carnegie Corporation in New York to two University based research networks in Africa.

HIV and AIDS programme donor partners have called for increased accountability of funds provided to the governments to combat the scourge.

The Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA), project that began in 1999 is to table their results on Bt maize experimental findings involving phases 1 and 2 at a meeting to be held in Nairobi on October 28-30.

More than 1600 participants, including government delegates from 160 countries and representatives from business and industry, environmental organizations and research institutions are attending the one-week meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Accra Ghana which kicked off Thursday.