Africa

The New York Times reported a shocker today: plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly strain of malaria, originated in gorillas—no in chimps, as the world has so long believed.

Miss Tanzania 2010 contestants present a mosquito net to a mother and her child during a visit to Mto wa Mbu Hospital in Arusha, a northern region of the country. This year, the Miss Tanzania beauty pageant spotlighted malaria and the Zinduka!

Every year, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in cooperation with the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) releases the Agricultural Outlook, a report that projects the state of food and agriculture for a ten-year period.