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<title>Climate conversations - Swazi farmer brings 'happy' ending to food security woes</title>
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<dc:date>2011-11-18</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[By Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, FANRPAN
Climate change is a reality in Africa and it is felt by the most vulnerable people. For Happy Lungile Shongwe, a mother of two from Maphumulo in the Lubombo district of Swaziland, however, the story has a happy ending, unlike for most who are battling to cope with climate shocks...]]></description>
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<title>The Swaziland Story: Celebrating a successful maize crop</title>
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<dc:date>2011-04-08</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[It was one of those near perfect days when approximately 100 government officials, farmers, community members, students at the college, FANRPAN staff members and Swaziland node representatives gathered at the African Christian College in Tubungu Estate, Matsapa. The event was hosted by the Swaziland Ministry of Agriculture: Seed Quality Control Services...]]></description>
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<title>Comesa to award Bingu </title>
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<dc:date>2010-09-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa) will give an award to President Bingu wa Mutharika in Swaziland.The President on Monday flew to Swaziland to attend Comesa&rsquo;s 14th heads of state summit.
&nbsp;
Speaking on departure from Kamuzu International Airport, Mutharika said he was expected to receive an award as former Secretary General as gratitude for what he achieved during his reign...]]></description>
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<title>Regional Integration, A Solution to Free Trade in Africa – COMESA Business Council </title>
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<dc:date>2010-08-30</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[The President of the Swaziland Federation of Employers and Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Mr Ambrose Dlamini, says that Regional Integration will help Africa overcome barriers of trade. Mr. Dlamini said that Africa with five regional economic communities envisions herself as net exporter of food to the global market...]]></description>
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<title>Swaziland assumes Chairmanship of COMESA</title>
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<dc:date>2010-07-28</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Swaziland will assume the chairmanship of the 15 member Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa or COMESA at the end of August. We caught up with Swaziland's Minister of Trade, Commerce and Industry, Jabulile Mashwana and asked her about the role Swaziland hopes to play in reforming economic policies within COMESA]]></description>
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<title>COMESA members to implement agriculture policies</title>
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<dc:date>2010-07-19</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[By Winile Masinga
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member states have been challenged to implement effective agriculture policies that would aid in reducing poverty levels in the regional bloc. 
COMESA Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya disclosed that the agriculture sector had been under utilised in the region, regardless of it acting as an engine for economic growth...]]></description>
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<title>SB, farmers' partnership lauded</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-29</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Mbabane: Minister of Agriculture, Clement Dlamini has lauded the partnership entered into between government, farmers and Swaziland Beverages (SB). SB has committed to supporting Lowveld farmers in the production of sorghum, so they could use it in producing some of their products.
Dlamini, speaking at the National Sorghum Field Day in KaLanga last week, said such a partnership would work well if farmers realise the benefits from it...]]></description>
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<title>US trade act is a mixed bag for Swazis </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-19</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Mbabane:&nbsp; A decade has passed since the US trade initiative, the African Growth and Opportunities Act (Agoa), expanded some countries&rsquo; economies like a balloon, bringing the largest manufacturing investments of any single time and tens of thousands of jobs, only to later deflate when the party seemed to be overAgoa offers duty-free access into the US market for African manufactured exports but Lesotho, Madagascar and Swaziland found the treaty has enticed mostly Asian-owned textile firms to invest in their countries...]]></description>
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<title>COMESA programmes to benefit Swaziland</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Mbabane: Swaziland will benefit from various programs under COMESA, which are to be rolled out in the course of the year.
Secretary General of the regional trade bloc Sindiso Ngwenya said his organisation would be launching various development programmes from which Swaziland and other members stand to benefit...]]></description>
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<title>Fruit, veg trucks barred from entering Swaziland</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Mbabane:&nbsp; There&nbsp;was drama at Ngwenya Border Post when members of the Swaziland Food and Vegetable Association were stopped from bringing in fruits and vegetables from South Africa.More than 10 trucks were barred from entering Swaziland by local police officers. Some simply off-loaded their cargo and returned to South Africa...]]></description>
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<title>Food insecurity threatens rural villages </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-13</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Bulawayo:&nbsp; The villagers of Nkalanje, in Zimbabwe's arid Matabeleland South Province, use bells tied around the necks of their livestock to track animals that roam ever greater distances in search of sparse tufts of grass as a dry spell tightens its grip in the already food insecure country.&nbsp;&nbsp; Nicholas Ntepe, 40, told IRIN he often spent days away from home to find his livestock and bring them closer to home...]]></description>
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<title>Brighter business prospects for Swazi women</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-13</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Mbabane:&nbsp; Business in Swaziland is perceived as a man&rsquo;s playground, and Swazi women have long found themselves on the periphery. Not only are big industries dominated by men, they are also the ones who award tenders in government and other institutions.Women control about 70 percent of the Kingdom&rsquo;s small and medium enterprises sector, but in the absence of any affirmative action policies on business, many of these entrepreneurs have been left out in the cold...]]></description>
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<title>Swaziland faces cattle shortage</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-13</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Mbabane: The&nbsp;country has a serious shortage of cattle, something which might see it failing to satisfy its markets abroad.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Managing Director of the Swaziland Meat Industry (SMI) Jonathan Williams said it was easy for farmers to say they would produce enough cattle than actually doing it...]]></description>
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<title>Swazi village gets a self-sustaining water supply</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-09</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Siphofaneni:&nbsp; No one loves the bill collector, and Sifiso Shongwe gets a chilly welcome as he goes from household to household collecting money for Maphilingo's community water scheme.&nbsp; It's a thankless task in the scorching heat of the drought-prone Lubombo Region in the eastern part of Swaziland...]]></description>
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<title>Swaziland has to look at by-product, says ACTIF</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-08</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Mbabane:&nbsp; Given low levels of production, ACTIF has urged Swaziland to look into pursuing the by-product of cotton, which is oil produced from cotton seed. ACTIF&rsquo;s Programme Manager Fred Kong&rsquo;ong&rsquo;o said Tanzania had done very well by focusing on oil production through the use of cotton seeds...]]></description>
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