Summary

• Global Leaders Launch Effort to Turn Around Africa's Failing Agriculture
• IFA Award Recognizes Dry Area Agriculture's “Renaissance Man”
• IFA Names Technical Executive Secretary
• Focus on "Advancing Fertilizer Use and Marketing in Africa" IFDC Africa
• What's working in Africa - Improving the Fertilizer Link in the Agriculture Value Chain
• From principle to practice - Omnia: Leveraging Knowledge in Agriculture
• Governments Agree on New Chemicals  Management Framework
• Highlights from IFA
  - Cape Town Programme
  - Vilnius Technical Symposium
  - Technical Executive Secretary
  - Information Update
  - Agriculture Conference
  - Fertilizer Demand Forecasts
• Word: Association - Unleashing the Lions
• Information Resources
• Events - Calendar