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<title>Five innovations working to empower women</title>
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<dc:date>2012-01-06</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Women produce more than half of the world's food but  face unique challenges as farmers. Five innovative programs are helping  them &ndash; and strengthening the world's food system.
At a time when world resources are dwindling and global population is  growing rapidly, finding sustainable solutions to nourish people and the  planet is more important than ever...]]></description>
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<title>Canada's Environment Minister announces recipients of climate change research</title>
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<dc:date>2012-01-05</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[On November 25, Canada's Environment Minister, the Honourable  Peter Kent, announced funding for seven winning projects from across  Africa that will support important and innovative initiatives to better  equip the African continent to deal with the effects of climate change.  The African Adaptation Research Centres (AARC) initiative is a three-year, $10 million project managed by IDRC with  funding provided by the Government of Canada, as part of Canada&rsquo;s  commitment to fast-start climate change financing promised under the  Copenhagen Accord...]]></description>
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<title>Delayed climate deal a risk to food production, ag specialists say</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-07</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[The dun maize field spreading out at Dumisani Ndlovu&rsquo;s offers a hint  of a bleak future. Baked by the sun and deprived of water, the crops on  his farm in Giyani, in South Africa&rsquo;s Limpopo province, are parched and  nearly dead.
Ndlovu, a third-generation farmer, pulls a leaf from a plant that ought to be plump and green...]]></description>
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<title>Leading Agricultural Organisations Issue Joint Appeal to COP17 Climate Negotiators at All-Day Event in Durban</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-03</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA: A group of 16 of the world&rsquo;s leading  agricultural organisations (including three United Nations agencies, the  World Bank, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and  Food Security (CCAFS), FANRPAN, the Global Forum on Agricultural  Research, Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU)  and the World Farmers&rsquo; Organisation) has jointly endorsed a letter  calling on COP17 climate negotiators to take concrete action to include  agriculture in the text of the climate agreement...]]></description>
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<title>Attention on Africa's agriculture as food becomes world's 'new oil'</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-03</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[With food expected to become the &ldquo;new oil&rdquo; of the 21st century, the  Standard Bank Group says Africa&rsquo;s agricultural output is set for  explosive growth in the coming decade.
According to a research analyst at the South African-based bank, Mr  Simon Freemantle, the continent&rsquo;s largely untapped potential is gaining  an elevated attention...]]></description>
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<title>John Prescott: suspend the Kyoto protocol</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[
The former Labour minister says countries should 'stop the clock' on the  agreement in order to continue negotiations on its future.
The Kyoto protocol should be suspended in order to safeguard its future, said one of the  lead architects of the treaty, the former Labour minister John Prescott.
Instead  of allowing the current provisions of the agreement to expire in 2012 -  as they would under current law - countries should "stop the clock" in  order to continue negotiations on its future, at United Nations climate change talks taking place this week and next in Durban...]]></description>
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<title>Canada urged to stay with Kyoto Protocol</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Durban - South Africa has urged Canada to reconsider its position of not entering into a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, officials said on Thursday.
Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa called on Canada to recommit to Kyoto.
Molewa heads South Africa's delegation to the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change taking place in Durban...]]></description>
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<title>Has the Kyoto protocol failed Africa?</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[On the outskirts of  Durban, rubbish is being turned into energy and cash. A neat trick which  the architects of the Kyoto Protocol can lay claim to.
The Mariannhill Landfill is converting methane gas emitted by  rotting rubbish into energy - and in doing so, providing an alternative  to fossil fuels...]]></description>
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<title>Climate change is just a game</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Durban - When Pablo Suarez began teaching farmers, fishermen and  emergency volunteers about rising sea levels and extreme weather  patterns using scientists and a Powerpoint presentation, people were  falling asleep in their chairs. Eventually he decided on a very different approach. "I  had to convey the idea of a storm, of an extreme weather event, and I  had a Frisbee and I just threw it into the audience," Suarez, a Red  Cross associate director of programmes, told Reuters on the sidelines of  a global climate summit...]]></description>
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<title>Africa: Using ICT to communicate climate change to women</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[As decision-makers continue to deliberate on the future of the planet,  the people most vulnerable to global warming remain largely voiceless in  the public domain. While mainstream media may sometimes be missing the  boat when it comes to giving these voices the spotlight, new media is  proving to be an important avenue to promote awareness and give women a  voice on climate change issues...]]></description>
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<title>Reporting from COP 17 in Durban</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[December is Climate Month at the Rockefeller Foundation, and for the  first time since our founding in 1913 we will begin a month-long tribute  to climate adaptation and resilience. We are doing this for two main  reasons: first to showcase the work of our grantees in this area; and  second to begin a conversation on the issue of climate resilience that  we hope extends far beyond December...]]></description>
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<title>Livestock insurance: A chance to outsmart drought?</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[What hits you when you get out of the truck at Ginda village, in Northern Kenya, is the smell.
Farmer Haro Sora&rsquo;s land is littered with the carcasses of cattle and  donkeys that have keeled over following an intense, prolonged drought. A  skull here; half a ribcage there. In some places there are whole  animals slumped on the roadside...]]></description>
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<title>'Changing climate impacts food security'</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-01</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[South Africa used to be a big exporter of deciduous fruits.
Apples, pears, all destined for Europe.
But that&rsquo;s changing now, and scientists are pointing to our changing climate.
&ldquo;It's no longer possible for many  of those areas to continue to produce those fruits,&rdquo; said Dr Bob Scholes  of the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)...]]></description>
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<title>Agriculture organisations up pressure ahead of Durban climate talks</title>
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<dc:date>2011-11-29</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[A raft of the world&rsquo;s most influential agricultural bodies, including the United Nation&rsquo;s Food and Agriculture Organization, Farming First as well as the World Bank have joined forces to urge international negotiators at Durban&rsquo;s  climate summit, which began yesterday, to acknowledge the significant  role of the sector in addressing climate change...]]></description>
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<title>Climate conversations - Swazi farmer brings 'happy' ending to food security woes</title>
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<dc:date>2011-11-18</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[By Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, FANRPAN
Climate change is a reality in Africa and it is felt by the most vulnerable people. For Happy Lungile Shongwe, a mother of two from Maphumulo in the Lubombo district of Swaziland, however, the story has a happy ending, unlike for most who are battling to cope with climate shocks...]]></description>
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