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Cameroon - In response to a growing demand for strengthened capacity in price risk management for the cocoa industry, the World Bank’s Agricultural Risk Management Team (ARMT) is working in collaboration with the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and its Cocoa Livelihoods Program to deliver price risk management training to the West Africa cocoa sector. The Cocoa Price Risk Management course will be held October 24-26, 2011 in Douala.

Washington – Most large-scale corruption cases involve using legal entities to conceal ownership and control of corrupt proceeds, and policymakers should take steps to improve transparency to reduce opportunities for wrongdoing, according to a study released today by the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative of the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

New York: The United Nations independent expert on the right to food cautioned today that smallholder farmers face the risk of exploitation under contract farming arrangements with processing or marketing companies, and recommended mechanisms that could ensure that such agreements are fairer.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved funds totaling USD 124.3 million for ground-breaking ‘Centers of Excellence’ in higher education in Mali, Uganda and Rwanda.

New York: International efforts to mitigate climate change are insufficient to meet the goal of keeping global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a United Nations report warned today, just a month before a major conference on the issue is held in Durban, South Africa.

New York: New laws are urgently needed in Paraguay to protect the rights of minorities, in particular women and indigenous people, a top United Nations human rights official has said, calling on the Government to scale up its efforts to stop discrimination and injustice towards these groups.

New York: As the world prepares to welcome its 7 billionth inhabitant next week, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the need to achieve a future for the entire human family that is free of nuclear weapons.

The outcome of a byelection indicates the direction in which the political wind is blowing. Haryana’s Hisar Lok Sabha byelection outcome is no exception. The humiliating defeat of the Congress whose candidate lost even his security deposit has interrupted the ruling party’s spree of electoral victories since the 2004 Lok Sabha polls. It has shown that the Congress is losing ground in the state.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Groupism in the Kerala unit of the Congress has hit a new low with the dominant A group and Vishala I group led respectively by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala bitterly bargaining over the sharing of the posts of chairpersons of various corporations.

NEW DELHI: The ambitious Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project is going to be a reality as India along with the other three participating countries, will be signing the Gas Sales Price Agreement (GSPA) in November this year. India has been vigorously pursuing the price issue with Turkmenistan for the last ten months and so far eight bilateral meetings have been held.