SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's quarantine authorities on Tuesday raised the African swine fever crisis alert to "serious" after this year's sixth ASF case was confirmed, according to Yonhap ...

An audacious effort joined two disparate communities, who say they all suffer from the staggering violence and crime ...

HANOI, June 25 (Reuters) - Vietnam has culled nearly 10% of its pig herd to contain an African swine fever outbreak that has started hitting large-scale industrial farms, the government said in a ...

TAIPEI: Taiwan reported its first cases of African swine fever on Wednesday (Oct 22), and authorities culled at least 195 pigs and ordered a ban on the movement and slaughter of pigs across the island ...

South Korea's health authorities on Tuesday issued a nationwide "red alert" to tighten the response after the sixth African ...

South Korea said on Tuesday there had been an outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) at a pig farm in the country's largest pig-breeding region, prompting authorities to raise the national alert level ...

(Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s unemployment rate rose in the fourth quarter as the social services and agriculture sectors cut jobs. The official jobless rate increased to 32.1% in the three months ...

Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 42, No. 5, Special Issue: Labour, Insecurity and Violence in South Africa (October 2016), pp. 911-927 (17 pages) Paternalism and violence on South African ...

KickStart is a company hoping to help lift African farmers out of poverty by selling them simple water pumps for their crops. Scott Simon talks with Martin Fisher, co-founder of the non-profit company ...

A farmer’s fortunes bloom and wither with the seasons. It can be precarious work, and a bad year can leave fields barren and grain sheds empty – slim pickings on which to survive until the next ...

David Harris receives funding from the CGIAR. Jordan Chamberlin receives funding from the CGIAR, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and IFAD. Kai Mausch received funding from multiple ...