Monthly Archives: May 2008

In the opening quarter of 2008, mobile phone users in Africa passed 280 million, overtaking the United States and Canada with their 277 million users. Africa added 70 million connections in 2007, representing growth of 38 per cent. This made it the fastest growing region in the world, ahead of the Middle East (33 per cent) and the Asia-Pacific region (29 per cent)....

For his breakthrough achievements in creating a rice variety specifically bred for the ecological and agricultural conditions in Africa, Dr. Monty Jones won the World Food Prize in 2004 – the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization’s International Year of Rice. ...

“NERICA has been cited as a major agricultural research breakthrough of the last 30 years,” said Dr Monty Jones, World Food Prize laureate, at the recent launching of an annual lecture series named after him by the Africa Rice Center Catch and Release trailer (WARDA) in Cotonou, Benin. Mission to Mars...