Cotton production in Ivory Coast rose by 25 percent, from 328,000 tonnes in the 2016-17 season to 412,000 tonnes in 2017-18, according to official figures.
Environment
May 31, 2018
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Famous for its cocoa and coffee, the Ivory Coast has drawn up an ambitious five-year plan for the cashew industry, seeking to modernise production in a sector where it is already the world's number-one exporter.
Other
May 30, 2018
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Africa's elephants are under siege from rampant poaching for their ivory. Everyone agrees that Africa's elephants need protecting from the ongoing slaughter. But countries with wild elephant populations (range states) disagree ...
Ecology
Apr 25, 2018
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A report by a British-based conservation group says rising Chinese demand for products made from elephant skin is driving poaching and posing an even greater threat to Asia's wild herds than the ivory trade.
Ecology
Apr 24, 2018
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The elephant staggered and keeled over in the tall grass in southern Tanzania, where some of the world's worst poaching has happened.
Ecology
Apr 13, 2018
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When Michael Gove first called for responses from the public to his plan to ban ivory sales back in October 2017, the environment secretary said a ban would "put the UK front and centre of global efforts to end the insidious ...
Ecology
Apr 10, 2018
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Britain will ban sales of ivory in a bid to help preserve the world's dwindling elephant population, the government announced Tuesday.
Ecology
Apr 3, 2018
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Park rangers in the world's top cocoa producer, Ivory Coast, are waging a campaign to protect national forests from the illegal farming of the raw ingredient in chocolate.
Ecology
Mar 29, 2018
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"Drones have become my passion," says Noursely Doumbia, who holds a degree in electronics and is currently learning to pilot drones as part of a pioneering programme in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan.
Engineering
Mar 25, 2018
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Belgium on Monday said at least three nations had received falsely labelled meat products from an abattoir in the south of the country in what it called a "significant" food fraud operation.
Other
Mar 20, 2018
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