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Empowering African Cooperatives to Access Markets

March 25, 2009 2 comments

TradeNet, a Ghana-based trading platform allows users to sign up for SMS alerts for commodities and markets of their choice and receive instant alerts for offers to buy or sell as soon as anyone else on the network has submitted an offer on their mobile phone.
Users can also request and receive real-time prices for more

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Dr. Marjatta Eilitta Discusses Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

March 13, 2009 No comments yet

Based in Accra, Ghana, Dr Marjatta Eilitta of the International Fertilizer Development Center recently presented some of her views on how farmers in sub-Saharan Africa could gain better access to agricultural inputs through better policy and market conditions.
The average farmer in sub-Saharan Africa uses only 8 kilos of nutrients per hectare of cultivated land.  This

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