OTTAWA -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume Piller's taste Better than Bacon Maple Flavoured Smoked Ham and Lean'n' Tasty Smoked Ham Maple Flavour Bacon Style Slices described below because these products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The following meat products are affected by this alert.

Kenya's Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) is conducting field trials of insect-resistant transgenic maize varieties. The GM maize varieties are resistant to four stem borer species and the fall armyworm (Helicoperva armigera), insect pests that cause Kenya to lose some 400,000 tons of maize annually.

Cocoa has been the main source of income for millions of smallholder farm families in Indonesia. The country is the world's third largest cocoa producer, after Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. But in the past years cocoa production has been cut by up to 50 percent because of pests and disease, aging trees and falling soil fertility.