Masa Establishment for Pest Extermination Services -- a leading pest management company -- has teamed up with the Ministry of Agriculture to fight pests -- including blackbirds, crows and red palm weevil -- which are inflicting huge financial losses on the Kingdom's agriculture sector.

Governments can use bioenergy as a positive force for rural development, so long as environmental and food security concerns are taken into account, a meeting of international experts hosted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has agreed.