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<title>Gates Foundation: addressing women's needs in agricultural work  </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[In sub-Saharan Africa, women do about 80 percent of the farm labor. That means that any effort to improve the region&rsquo;s agriculture generally or the lives of its small farmers in particular must take women&rsquo;s needs and roles into account. Despite efforts to address gender issues in agriculture, changing the lives of women farmers on the ground has remained an elusive goal...]]></description>
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<title>Patrilineal inheritance prevents women's access to land  </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lilongwe:&nbsp; Mercy Gondwe, 51, from Rumphi in northern Malawi, was married for 34 years. When her husband died in 2008, she assumed she would inherit the land they had been cultivating together since they got married. But this was not the case.Gondwe&rsquo;s brother-in-law took over the ownership of the land the day of the funeral, because tradition dictates that only a man has the right to own land...]]></description>
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<title>Food security: "African govts need $600bn investment"</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lagos:&nbsp; The Director, Rural Infrastructure and Agro-industries Division, United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)&nbsp;Mr. Geoffrey Mrema yesterday said that Sub Saharan African countries needed to invest USD600 billion&nbsp; on yearly basis in agricultural post production activities&nbsp; for economic growth and food security in their various countries between now and 2050...]]></description>
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<title>Sauri MVP: Shower of aid brings flood of progress</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Sauri:&nbsp; In the past five years, life in this bushy little patch of western Kenya has improved dramatically.&nbsp; Agricultural yields have doubled; child mortality has dropped by 30 percent; school attendance has shot up and so have test scores, putting one local school second in the area, when it used to be ranked 17th; and cellphone ownership (a telltale sign of prosperity in rural Africa) has increased fourfold...]]></description>
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<title>Farmers ask FG to split agriculture ministry</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Benin:&nbsp; A&nbsp;coalition of small scale agro producers of Nigeria, ASAPIN, has canvassed the breaking up of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources into two separate ministries.
The coalition, comprising United Movement of Small Scale Farmers, Strengthening the Livelihoods of Small Scale Farmers in Nigeria, Middle Belt Small Scale Farmers Network, Civil Society Coalition for Poverty Eradication among others, also called for the establishment of an agency to cater for the specific needs of small holder farmers and small scale agriculture in the country...]]></description>
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<title>Farmers need to adapt to climate change</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp;Across the African continent, projects aimed at helping rural farmers adapt to the effects of climate change are springing up.&nbsp; One such project gives farmers early warning as to when the rain will come, how much it will be and how long it will last. This will help them to choose when to plant their crops to avoid floods or droughts...]]></description>
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<title>African women economic summit: investing differently in women?</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Tunis:&nbsp; The African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, and Founder of New Faces, New Voices network (NFNV) Graca Machel, will co-host &ldquo;The African Women Economic Summit&rdquo; scheduled to take place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 19-20 March 2010 on the theme: &ldquo;Investing differently in Women&rdquo;...]]></description>
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<title>Africa's success stories in gender empowerment</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[United Nations:&nbsp; Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories in politics, education, health care or civil liberties even as Africa is mostly left out of political reckoning - and wrongly so...]]></description>
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<title>Central role of women producers in maintaining communities, coping with severe food insecurity</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[United Nations:&nbsp; Women grass-roots activists should be given more clout in forming policies at both the local and international levels, speakers said today at a Headquarters press conference on the role of women food producers and their coping strategies in times of severe food insecurity.
To cope with food insecurity, some women had begun pooling resources to create savings and credit groups, while others were acquiring new skills in crop management and storage, or collaborating to form seed banks, said Sri Sofjan of Malaysia's Huairou Commission...]]></description>
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<title>Women's land rights key to reducing global poverty, ensuring food security</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Seattle:&nbsp; Catherine Bertini, winner of the World Food Prize, will keynote the Rural Development Institute&rsquo;s (RDI) fourth and largest-ever International Women&rsquo;s Day celebration, raising awareness about the importance of secure land rights as a key strategy in alleviating extreme poverty and improving food security...]]></description>
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<title>A flawed plan for women's rights</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[The EU's latest effort to improve the plight of women in the developing world is welcome, but its Gender Action Plan is unconvincing.&nbsp; Launched without fanfare on International Women's Day, the EU's Gender Action Plan represents the latest instalment in the EU's bid to tackle gender equality and women's rights in developing countries...]]></description>
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<title>Namibia: And the women battle on </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; Under the theme &lsquo;Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All&rsquo;, Namibian women celebrated International Women&rsquo;s Day on Monday along with the rest of the world.&ldquo;The 8th March is a day when women from around the world, irrespective of their countries of origin, ethnic background, political affiliation, cultural differences, economic and social status come together as one to celebrate their day,&rdquo; said Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, Marlene Mungunda...]]></description>
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<title>Women want review of Land Use Act</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Damaturu:&nbsp; Women groups in Yobe State on Monday gathered in Damaturu and called on the state government to review its Land Use Act and other laws related to it in order to encourage mass production of food.
The women who are drawn from the Agricultural and Allied Employees Union of Nigeria (AAUEN) spoke under the auspices of 'Voices for Food Security' (VFFS) and claimed that over seventy percent of women in the rural areas are farmers but do not have direct access to land...]]></description>
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<title>Uganda: Level the playing field for women</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[
Kampala:&nbsp; While it may be argued that the initiatives favour an already endowed elite few and that not enough is being done to provide equal opportunities to the non-elite (e.g. scientific innovations to lessen the burden of manual labour on rural women, easy access to safe drinking water, land ownership policies etc...]]></description>
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<title>Nancy Folbre: The world's best countries for women</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-11</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[New York:&nbsp; International Women&rsquo;s Day seems like an appropriate occasion to ask which countries do best by women &mdash; and why. Obviously, the answer depends on how you define &ldquo;best&rdquo; &mdash; in absolute terms, relative to men, or some combination of the two?
You can choose from at least four different published rankings that consider some aspect of gender inequality that include the United States...]]></description>
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