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<title>Southern Africa: Region Launches Agricultural Research Centre</title>
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<dc:date>2011-09-01</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[The launch of a regional agricultural research centre has demonstrated SADC's commitment to improving food security in the region.  Located in Gaborone, Botswana, the Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development in Southern Africa (CCARDESA) aims to coordinate and stimulate agricultural growth through research, technology development and dissemination of research information to farmers...]]></description>
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<title>Botswana: Women in Politics - A House Divided... But Determined</title>
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<dc:date>2011-03-29</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[GABORONE - &ldquo;The Botswana Caucus for Women in Politics  has failed to realise the objectives it was intended for, but we will  not give up on it just yet,&rdquo; says Margaret Nasha.
The BCWP is a platform established to enable women from all political  parties to converge and support each other in their attempts to make  their mark in a male-dominated field...]]></description>
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<title>BAMB CEO calls for efficient farming methods</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-28</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Masunga:&nbsp;Tatuma farmers have been encouraged to adopt more efficient techniques to take crop production in the region to the next level.&nbsp; Speaking at a field day in Zwenshambe recently, Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board (BAMB) CEO, Mr Masego Mphathi said farmers should use high yielding seeds, improve records keeping and follow market trends to attain sustainable food security at both household and national levels...]]></description>
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<title>Botswana MPs found ill-informed to make policy on climate change</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-28</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Gaborone:&nbsp; Hardly&nbsp;four months after the now popular Copenhagen Conference in Denmark, which sought to devise strategies to confront the impact of global warming and climate change, Botswana legislators cannot tell the difference between climate change and the depletion of the O zone layer.
And much less are they able to distinguish climate change as an aspect of the environment from the other environment related problems, generally to formulate the appropriate policy response to climate change...]]></description>
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<title>Gender and climate change in Southern Africa: case studies, regional report </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-19</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; Although various studies have focused on climate change impacts and adaptation opportunities in Africa, few have focused on the household level and in particular on gender differentiated impacts of climate change. These studies (South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia), commissioned by Heinrich B&ouml;ll Stiftung, provide an analysis and summary of the findings of eight case studies carried out in four southern African countries...]]></description>
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<title>Floods in Caprivi not over yet</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-14</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; The&nbsp;level of the Zambezi River continues to drop at Katima Mulilo and stood at 6,55 metres yesterday, three centimetres down from Sunday.&nbsp; However, another flood wave is moving down the Zambezi towards the Caprivi Region, which could force more people to move to higher ground...]]></description>
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<title>Botswana faces project implementation problems</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-13</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Gaborone:&nbsp; Despite its high economic growth rate and good policy initiatives, Botswana still faces problems relating to project implementation.&nbsp; The president of the Botswana Economics Association, Mr Obonye Galebotswe said this when presenting a paper he co-authored with Dr Sukumaran Nair at a conference on Botswana's economic growth paradox in Gaborone on Wednesday...]]></description>
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<title>Economic promotion fund projects not doing well</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-13</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Gaborone:&nbsp; Economic promotion fund projects are not doing well due to mismanagement of funds, lack of commitment and abandonment of projects by beneficiaries.
According to Assistant Minister of Local Government, Mr Kentse Rammidi, of all the income generating projects that were funded, 30 per cent were operational and only 10 per cent were profitable...]]></description>
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<title>SADC launches water programme </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-12</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Gaborone:&nbsp; The Southern African Development Community (SADC) regional Water Demand Management Programme, described as a tool that will contribute to SADC's goal of regional integration and poverty reduction through efficient use of water in the region, was launched in Gaborone yesterday.
Officially launching the programme at Cresta Lodge, deputy permanent secretary in the Ministry of Mineral, Energy and Water Resources, Boikobo Paya, underlined the importance of water resources saying&nbsp; seven of the eight Millennium Development Goals(MDGS) cannot be achieved without water...]]></description>
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<title>"The diamond dilemma"</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-09</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Gaborone: Government's ambition of delivering a balanced budget by 2012/13 after years of large fiscal deficits, may just prove to be a difficult objective to achieve. An annual economic outlook on Botswana, "The Diamond Dilemma" by Jan Duvenage of Standard Bank in South Africa, says the large fiscal deficit is a cause for concern, but the government is committed, under National Development Plan 10 (NDP10), to deliver a balanced budget by then...]]></description>
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<title>Botswana lacks official GMO position</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-09</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Gaborone:&nbsp; As food insecurity concerns increase the world over, governments are still grappling with whether or not to adopt modern biotechnology as a measure of boosting food production. The global anxiety has been accelerated by an increase in population, food demand and shortage of land in many of the producing countries...]]></description>
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<title>BMC welcomes beef market liberalisation</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-25</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Gaborone: The General Manager for Procurement at the Botswana Meat Commission (BMC), Mr Clive Marshall has said they welcome the move by Government to liberalise the meat market. He was speaking in the wake of plans by the Ministry of Agriculture to restructure BMC operations.
&nbsp;
Because the BMC has never been able to meet its quota of 19 000 tonnes of beef exports to the European Union (EU) market, some observers were worried that the new competition might see the commission struggle to procure livestock for its abattoirs...]]></description>
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<title>Ploughing hectarage declines - Modise</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-25</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Gaborone:&nbsp; The Director of Crop Production in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Molatlhegi Modise has revealed that a total of 170 000 hectares (ha) has so far been ploughed this season as compared to 298 000 ha ploughed the previous season.&nbsp; The decrease, according to Mr Modise, is attributed to low rains experienced countrywide...]]></description>
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<title>Botswana: Progress visible in enviro management</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-24</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Gaborone:&nbsp; Botswana has achieved considerable progress in environment and natural resources management, says the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, Mr Ponatshego Kedikilwe.
Officially opening the 10th Ditshwanelo Annual Rights Film Festival, Mr Kedikilwe however said the country has a long way to go to sustain the effort...]]></description>
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<title>GMO movement across borders remains unchecked - claim </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-24</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Gaborone:&nbsp; It has emerged at the just ended one day consultative workshop on the formulation of the national biosafety framework that the present level of awareness regarding both the benefits and the adverse effects of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) may represent a risk to the environment...]]></description>
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