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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>Namibia: Study to assess organic meat markets </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; An agreement for a one-year study to assess the potential of Namibia&rsquo;s organic meat production and markets in the European Union and Finland was signed last Friday.&nbsp; The study that will cost close to N$400&nbsp;000 is sponsored by the Finnish Embassy to the Meat Board, upon the latter&rsquo;s request...]]></description>
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<title>Land reform slow </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-12</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Okahandja:&nbsp; The willing buyer, willing seller policy introduced by Government after the watershed land conference held in 1994, is not yielding desired outputs as was envisaged, says Deputy Minister of Lands and Resettlement, Henock ya Kasita.&nbsp; He added that a new method to hasten land acquisition is needed...]]></description>
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<title>Unam plans for climate change research </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-12</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; The University of Namibia (Unam) is considering a series of research projects to respond to priorities set to existing climate change and development policies.&nbsp; The policies refer to international instruments such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the National Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan, Vision 2030, as well as the third National Development Plan (NDP III)...]]></description>
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<title>Namibia: Land officials map out future plans </title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-12</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Okahandja:&nbsp; A week-long Ministry of Lands and Resettlement (MLR) meeting is underway in Okahandja, where the entire management team of the ministry from all 13 regions is locked up in closed-door discussions to map out plans for 2010/11.&nbsp; In addition, the meeting will also review the ministry&rsquo;s successes and challenges during the past financial year...]]></description>
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<title>IEPA improves market access for Botswana</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-12</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Gaborone:&nbsp;The Interim Economic Partnership Agreement (IEPA) has not only locked the European Union (EU) as an important market for Botswana exports but has in addition improved market access to duty free quota level on everything except sugar and rice.&nbsp; Consequently, Botswana has been able to make savings on the historical eight per cent special levy that its beef had been subjected to prior to the existence of IEPA...]]></description>
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<title>Either in or out of EPA - EU tells Namibia</title>
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<dc:date>2010-03-12</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Windhoek:&nbsp; The European Union has asked Namibia to stop skating on thin ice and make up her mind whether to be in or out of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union (EU) and Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). The EU says the current situation where Namibia has initialled but is refusing to sign the final agreement is &ldquo;untenable&rdquo; and is about to open a can of legal worms, from both the EU and the World Trade Organisation &ndash; the very institution on whose rules Namibia is arguing her case for not signing the final EPA...]]></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>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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