Nelly Bassily | September 13, 2010
African Farm News in Review
1. Burkina Faso: Live fences reinvigorate poor soils (by Nourou-Dhine Salouka, JADE Productions, for Farm Radio Weekly in Burkina Faso)
2. Malawi and Mozambique: Farmers cooperate across borders (IPS Terra Viva)
3. Democratic Republic of the Congo: Villagers avoid attack by sleeping in the forest (Syfia Grands Lacs)
4. Niger: 200,000 displaced by floods (IRIN, UN, IFRC)
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