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<title>Small farmers optimistic about increasing earnings from outgrowers' contracts </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-17</dc:date>
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Nairobi:&nbsp; An emerging agribusiness model where companies are contracting small holder farmers to supply food and beverage processing raw materials is promising to stop the poverty cycle driven by the middle men who take up to a third of farmers' sales.
Coca Cola and East Africa Breweries have started applying this concept that could result into higher income for small scale farmers, whose motivation for commercial farming is always dimmed by lack of market or rock bottom prices for produce especially when there is oversupply...]]></description>
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<title>League backs state's plan to own all land</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-17</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; The&nbsp;ANC Youth League had come out in strong support of a Department of Rural Development and Land Reform initiative to nationalise all farmland, pledging yesterday to put the matter to the highest policymaking organs of the ANC.As a storm of opposition to the plan emerged, with arguments put forward that it would destroy commercial agriculture, undermine investment in the sector and cause famine, the league spokesman, Floyd Shivambu, said the land issue followed on neatly on its call for mining nationalisation...]]></description>
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<title>SACCI worried about economic costs of farm attacks</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-17</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg: The&nbsp;South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI) said today that it is becoming increasingly concerned at the cost to the economy of the rising number of attacks and murders on farms in South Africa.
With concerns about food security already prevalent both in South Africa as well as globally, the high-rate of attacks on farms can only serve to exacerbate associated risks, it said...]]></description>
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<title>Union: Low tobacco prices will hurt workers </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-17</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lilongwe:&nbsp; Farmers are unhappy with the government decision to lower minimum prices for tobacco at the Auction Floors, arguing that it will affect the returns from the tobacco at national level.
Tobacco Control Commission announced last week that prices will average $2 per kilogramme for the best grade of burley tobacco, which is fifteen American cents (15 cents) lower than that of last year...]]></description>
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<title>Tobacco sales kick off in high gear </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-17</dc:date>
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Blantyre:&nbsp; The market season of Malawi's chief foreign exchange earner, tobacco, Monday kicked off on a promising note with most farmers selling their leaf at above the government set prices.
Government recently decreed that the minimum price for burley tobacco should be US $2 per kilogramme, down from US $2...]]></description>
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<title>Agribank deal to boost aquaculture sector in Namibia</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-17</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) and the Agricultural Bank of Namibia (Agribank) have signed a guidelines document for financing aquaculture projects in the country.The guidelines document is a precursor for a financing agreement that will exist between the two institutions...]]></description>
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<title>Silence of the lambs irks farmers </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-17</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; Patience is running out among small-stock farmers for the long-awaited implementation of the proposed levy on export of live small-stock to South Africa. All sections of the agricultural sector, from unions to farmers&rsquo; associations, are calling on Government to implement the proposals to which all parties have agreed, as the current set-up continues to weigh down on small-stock farmers in the country...]]></description>
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<title>Farmworker summit to improve living conditions </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-17</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; Agricultural Unions, the Department&nbsp; of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, North West provincial departments of Labour and the Human Rights Commission have agreed to work together to improve the lives of farmworkers and dwellers. This agreement was reached during the first provincial farmworkers&rsquo; summit held at the Hartbeespoort Dam near Brits in the North West...]]></description>
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<title>Researchers examine impact of parks on communities</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-17</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Montreal: It's a side to national parks that the average camera-toting tourist likely wouldn't see.
The creation and management of such protected areas can bring major costs to nearby communities, from higher costs of living for residents to loss of cultural traditions or hunting and fishing rights, says Grant Murray, Canada Research Chair at Vancouver Island University for Coastal Resource Management...]]></description>
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<title>Tanzania 2010/2011 budget countdown: How the stimulus money was spent </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Dar es Salaam:&nbsp; The Bank of Tanzania (BoT) had by last December disbursed half of the Sh1.7 trillion set aside to cushion the economy from the adverse effects of the global economic downturn. Documents seen by The Citizen show that BoT has disbursed a total of Sh870.8 billion, equivalent to 51 per cent of the allocation...]]></description>
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<title>Sugar factory output up 23pc </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Dar es Salaam:&nbsp; The Tanganyika Planting Company (TPC) raised sugar production to 78,000 tonnes in the 2008/09 season from 60,000 tonnes in 2007/08. It produced 49,650 tonnes in 200/01, says chief executive officer Robert Baissac. The factory aims at increasing output to 80,000 tonnes a season. &ldquo;After expanding the factory and plantations we are excepting to produce between 80,000 and 85,000 tonnes of sugar a year,&rdquo; he says...]]></description>
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<title>Floods could aggravate seasonal cholera in Mozambique</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg: Cholera has claimed the lives of over 40 people in Mozambique and ongoing flooding throughout the central and northern parts of the country could "aggravate" the problem, aid agencies say.
"This is not unexpected," the Chief of Health and Nutrition at the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Mozambique, Roberto De Bernardi, told IRIN...]]></description>
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<title>Madagascar: Struggling to reach cyclone-hit villages</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg: Tropical storm Hubert battered Madagascar on 10 March, cutting off entire communities in the southeast from emergency aid. A limited amount of relief - mainly food items - has been flown in because of damage to infrastructure, and aid agencies are trying to reach people in need of assistance via the river systems...]]></description>
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<title>Experts tell of Saccos slide from dream to nightmare </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Dar es Salaam: Once touted as part of the solution to the endemic poverty, especially in the rural areas, savings and credit cooperative societies (Saccos) have miserably failed in Tanzania, experts say.&nbsp; The experts say they are not surprised at the failure of the Saccos to deliver, citing among the obstacles, the lack of basic infrastructure, especially roads, in most of the country...]]></description>
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<title>Power cuts cost Malawi $215 mln/yr, hurt investment</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lilongwe:&nbsp; Erratic power supply in Malawi is costing the southern African nation about $215 million a year and deters new investment, an economist said on Monday.
Alex Gomani, chief economist at the Millennium Challenge Account-Malawi (MCA-M), a U.S. bilateral development fund, said the loss represents 4...]]></description>
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