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<title>Delayed climate deal a risk to food production, ag specialists say</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-07</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[The dun maize field spreading out at Dumisani Ndlovu&rsquo;s offers a hint  of a bleak future. Baked by the sun and deprived of water, the crops on  his farm in Giyani, in South Africa&rsquo;s Limpopo province, are parched and  nearly dead.
Ndlovu, a third-generation farmer, pulls a leaf from a plant that ought to be plump and green...]]></description>
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<title>Seccap: Searching for solutions to climate change</title>
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<dc:date>2011-06-15</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Bunda College of Agriculture has collaborated with international universities and organisations to initiate a project called Seccap that will help Malawian scientists to make evidence-based decisions on climate change locally.
Seccap is an acronym for Strengthening Evidence-Based Climate Change Adaptation Policies, and is a project which is being championed by Food Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (Fanrpan)...]]></description>
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<title>Eyeing the Money, Not Development</title>
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<dc:date>2011-03-28</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[WINDHOEK - A new revenue sharing formula in the  Southern African Customs Union (SACU) could boost development but has  met with resistance from the governments of poorer states in the  sub-region that are interested in &ldquo;just getting the money&rdquo;.
Differences over the economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with the  EU nearly tore the customs union apart in 2010; now the issue of the  revenue sharing formula has become equally contentious...]]></description>
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<title>National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund plants 45 000 trees In International Year of Forests</title>
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<dc:date>2011-02-18</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Food &amp; Trees for Africa (FTFA) has received a generous donation from the  National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF) to support the distribution of  45 000 Trees for Homes in 2011, the International Year of Forests.

45 000 residents of low cost housing  settlements across South Africa will benefit from this and over 900 residents of  the beneficiary communities will receive training and stipends as community  based educators going door to door to spread climate change and greening  awareness...]]></description>
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<title>Zuma set to visit France</title>
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<dc:date>2011-02-17</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[President Jacob Zuma will lead a high-profile economic delegation on a state  visit to France from March 2 to 3, according to Minister of International  Relations and Co-operation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.
The delegation includes Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, Trade and Industry  Minister Rob Davies, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters, Police Minister Nathi  Mthethwa and Nkoana-Mashabane...]]></description>
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<title>Climate change at Sci-Bono</title>
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<dc:date>2011-02-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Moves by South Africa's big five cities to beat climate change are on show at  Sci-Bono. In Joburg&rsquo;s corner are Rea Vaya and Cosmo City, among others.
Climate change &ndash; and what the big five South African cities are  doing to fight it &ndash; is the subject of an exhibition at Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in  Newtown...]]></description>
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<title>Climate change and Africa's vanishing lake</title>
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<dc:date>2011-02-15</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[evokes memories of famines such as those in 1980s Ethiopia. But Fatime and 4,3-million other children who are suffering  from chronic malnutrition are victims of a more permanent crisis -- the  disappearance of Lake Chad.As South Africa prepares to host the United  Nations climate change summit in Durban this year, Lake Chad is living proof of  the continent's environment in crisis...]]></description>
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<title>World leaders talk climate change at economic summit</title>
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<dc:date>2011-01-28</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[
There's been a lot of climate change talk at the World Economic Forum in  Davos, Switzerland, this week and much of it has centered on the United  States.
Noting the President Obama did not specifically mention climate change in his  State of the Union address this week, the two world leaders hosting the forum  called on the United States Thursday to take action on climate change...]]></description>
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<title>Africa: Zuma Tables Ways to Fight Poverty</title>
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<dc:date>2010-11-29</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Pretoria &mdash; President Jacob Zuma has challenged African countries to transform their agricultural industries into engines for economic growth and poverty eradication.Speaking at the Third Africa-European Union summit in Tripoli, Libya, Zuma said the state of a country's agriculture sector was directly linked to poverty levels, and determined the extent to which Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) could be achieved...]]></description>
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<title>Banks 'need to play active role in agriculture'</title>
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<dc:date>2010-09-21</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Mr Adesina said that the majority of farmers in Africa live below the poverty line and as such there was a need for a new policy framework to drive agriculture growth.
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CAPE TOWN &mdash; Commercial banks need to play a much more active role in the development of Africa&rsquo;s agricultural sector , Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African arm of the Agricultural Economists Association, said yesterday...]]></description>
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<title>UK introduces Google Earth maps showing temperature rises</title>
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<dc:date>2010-09-07</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[The UK government has produced an interactive Google Earth map, which highlighted the impacts that a 4 &ordm;C average temperature increase would have on different regions of the world.
The map aims at stimulating the climate change debate, as the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16), in Cancun, in December approached...]]></description>
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<title>New network to tackle illegal fishing</title>
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<dc:date>2010-08-30</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[



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African coastal states have organized network to tackle illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing, confirms a report.&nbsp;




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According to the report representatives from African coastal states attend a workshop in the United Kingdom to learn more of the ways to deal with illegal and IUU fishing which damages fish stocks, the marine environment, food security and wider economic growth and development...]]></description>
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<title>Climate change hits farmers hard</title>
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<dc:date>2010-08-26</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[WHEN asked if they have already felt the effects of climate change, Mary-Anne Zimri and Katrina Scheepers eagerly nod their heads.
The two small-scale farmers say a lack of rain this winter has foiled their planting season, ruined their harvest and drastically slashed their income.
"We have been hit on all sides," Zimri, who with Scheepers belongs to a farming cooperative in Wuppertal, a small hamlet in Western Cape, says...]]></description>
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<title>Climate-change policy ignores women farmers</title>
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<dc:date>2010-08-26</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[effects of climate change, Mary-Anne Zimri and Katrina Scheepers eagerly nod their heads. The two small-scale farmers say lack of rain this winter has foiled their planting season, ruined their harvest -- and drastically slashed their income. "We have been hit on all sides," says Zimri, who together with Scheepers belongs to a farming cooperative in Wuppertal, a small hamlet in South Africa's Western Cape province...]]></description>
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<title>SA, Brazil mull cooperation on aerospace, agriculture, health and energy </title>
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<dc:date>2010-07-24</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[By: Keith Campbell
Aerospace, agriculture, health, nuclear energy and shipbuilding were all sectors highlighted for cooperation between South Africa and Brazil during the recent visit to this country by Brazilian President Luiz In&aacute;cio Lula da Silva. Few details were, however, released.
Addressing a South Africa-Brazil Business Forum, in Sandton, north of Johannesburg, on July 9, South African Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies reported that the two sides &ldquo;had some fruitful discussions on cooperation in aerospace&rdquo;...]]></description>
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