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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>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>Launch of Africa Adaptation Programme in Namibia</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-09</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Ondangwa:&nbsp; Namibia has become one of the first African countries to launch the climate change adaptation programme. Supported by the United Nations Development Programme &ndash;UNDP &ndash; the Namibia Africa Adaptation Project (NAM-AAP) will aim to create systems to manage climate change risks and opportunities in the long-term...]]></description>
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<title>Namibia:  Conservancies happily sign their rights </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-05</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; The signing of concessions between the Ministry of Environment and Tourism and communities in several conservancies took place Tuesday.&ldquo;Under Community Based Natural Resources Management Programme (CBNRM) communities are given the right to protect our biodiversity, including wildlife, and they are also given rights to conduct tourism activities to enable them to generate an income, hence the concept of conservancies,&rdquo; said Minister of Environment and Tourism (MET) Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah...]]></description>
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<title>Scientists complete study on Namibian deep waters </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-05</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Walvis Bay:&nbsp; Namibian and Spanish scientists and researchers recently jointly conducted a scientific research in Namibia&rsquo;s territorial waters to evaluate the situation of its fishing grounds.The evaluations and studies were performed by &lsquo;Vizconde de Eza&rsquo;, a Spanish Oceanographic vessel that has conducted similar scientific campaigns for six years now...]]></description>
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<title>Zambezi river reaches alarming levels</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-05</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; Heavy&nbsp;rains in south-eastern Angola and western Zambia caused the Zambezi River to rise to nearly nine metres at Chavuma in Zambia over the weekend with floods expected to reach Katima Mulilo by the middle of this month.
The Zambezi River continued to rise steadily at Katima Mulilo and reached 5...]]></description>
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<title>Namibia: Land tenure under spotlight </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-04</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp;&nbsp; Practical steps are afoot to confer land tenure to communal areas, thus eliminating persistent problems facing communal farmers.&nbsp; Millennium Challenge Account Namibia has just concluded week-long discussions with communal areas in six regions on rangeland and livestock management, central to which is land tenure...]]></description>
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<title>Namibia: Veterinary cordon fence is no more </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; The veterinary cordon fence that pierced through the side of northern communal farmers is no more.&nbsp; Cabinet has approved a first-ever conclusive policy that virtually removed the cordon fence, opening up the northern communal farmers&rsquo; gates to the international meat market...]]></description>
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<title>SADC Council of Ministers meeting</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-26</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Luanda:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Angola will attend the meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Council of Ministers in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Thursday and Friday.
Speaking to Angop&nbsp;(Wednesday) before leaving to attend the meeting in the neighbouring country, State Secretary for Industry Kiala Gabriel said the member States would discuss issues concerning regional economic integration, trade protocol, customs union and community visas...]]></description>
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<title>Devil's claw brings in the moolah </title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-25</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Mahango Station:&nbsp; Devil&rsquo;s claw harvesters, mostly women and the elderly, in the Bwabwata National Park receive between N$800 and N$1 000 each.According to the Minister of Environment and Tourism Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, her ministry is working hand in hand with local communities to ensure that biodiversity in protected areas benefits the rural poor living in or alongside national parks...]]></description>
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<title>'Stop selling urban land to foreigners'</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-25</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp;&nbsp; Namibian Chamber of Commerce and Industry now has its eyes on stopping the wholesaling of urban land to foreign investors, saying the long-term consequences of having most of town land in foreign hands could be disastrous. The thought comes after the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) has successfully pleaded with Government to invoke restrictions on foreign investors entering specific sectors of the economy...]]></description>
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<title>Namibia:  Figures confirm January rains exceeded averages</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-23</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; Most&nbsp;of Namibia has experienced a wetter than normal January, according to an analysis of rainfall figures released by the Meteorological Service of Namibia last week.
Last year, large parts of Namibia - with the northeastern and southeastern parts of the country however bucking the trend - experienced exceptionally wet weather in February...]]></description>
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<title>Rising commodity prices to lift Namibia growth</title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-17</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; Higher commodity prices and a pick up in exports should help Namibia's economy recover from last year's slowdown, but an increase in power costs may add to inflation, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday.
A global downturn hit mining revenues in Namibia, the world's fourth largest uranium producer and a major diamond producer, and the central bank has estimated the economy contracted about 1 percent last year...]]></description>
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<title>Meatco warned </title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-17</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; Settling the decade-long dispute over the ownership of Meatco will be handled according to the mandates as defined and supported by earlier cabinet decisions. The Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, Hon. John Mutorwa said in his speech during a meeting with the board and management of the Meat Corporation of Namibia (MEATCO), that the ownership of Meatco has has been and is being dealt with, strictly, within the spirit of cabinet decisions and the Terms of Reference (TOR) as adopted by the Cabinet...]]></description>
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<title>Agribank experiences growth of 70% in loans granted </title>
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<dc:date>2010-02-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; &ldquo;Agribank will continue to invest in agriculture for today for a prosperous nation tomorrow&rdquo;, said the bank&rsquo;s CEO, Leonard Iipumbu in his year-end statement released this week.
Agribank granted a staggering 70% more loans in 2009, which is a vast improvement when compared to the 7% growth achieved in 2008...]]></description>
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