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<title>Zambia: Women Resume Struggle for Representation Ahead of Elections</title>
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<dc:date>2011-03-28</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[LUSAKA - Zambians head to the polls sometime before  October and civil society groups are working hard to ensure their voices  are heard. Groups which were excluded during the 2005 elections and the  National Constitutional Conference that began in 2007 are mobilising to  ensure they are not excluded...]]></description>
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<title>Zambia: First Lady Joins Women in Agricultural Production</title>
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<dc:date>2011-03-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Empirical evidence indicates that rural women are the backbone of subsistence agriculture. This assertion is clear in the hinterland where women practically contribute more than 50 percent to food production and hence their key role in fending for their families. Thus it is apparent that given added impetus in terms of input assistance, women could be a reliable human resource factor in agriculture...]]></description>
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<title>UNICEF FEELS THE PINCH OF CLIMATE CHANGE</title>
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<dc:date>2010-08-25</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lusaka, Zambia 25 Aug 2010 (ABN) &ndash; United Nations International Children&rsquo;s Fund UNICEF Zambia has voiced its concern over effects of climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa which it says continue to hamper growth and expansion of Africa&rsquo;s agricultural production and business.
UNICEF Zambia is the first of United Nations (UN) wing in Zambia to bridge into the business sector as it sees lack of measures to improve agriculture production and business results in food insecurity thus affecting children...]]></description>
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<title>Malawi in Comesa agriculture project</title>
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<dc:date>2010-07-22</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[


Written by Thom Khanje in Lusaka, Zambia &nbsp;&nbsp;


Thursday, 22 July 2010






Written by Thom Khanje in Lusaka, Zambia &nbsp;&nbsp;


Thursday, 22 July 2010



Written by Thom Khanje in Lusaka, Zambia
Malawi is one of the eight countries within the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) to benefit from a multi-billion kwacha European Union (EU) funded agriculture programme to help farmers access agriculture inputs easily and at competitive prices...]]></description>
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<title>COMESA challenged over effective agro policies </title>
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<dc:date>2010-07-15</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Thursday, 15 July 2010
Lusaka&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;Common Market&nbsp;for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member states have been challenged to implement effective agriculture policies that&nbsp;would aid&nbsp;in&nbsp;reducing poverty levels in the regional bloc.
Agriculture and Co-operatives Minister Peter Daka said this is because at regional level the agriculture sector&nbsp;was key in promoting and enhancing food security...]]></description>
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<title>Zambia plans to boost DRC exports to $2 bln: minister</title>
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<dc:date>2010-07-15</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia plans to boost its exports to the Democratic Republic of Congo to more than $2 billion this year from $1.2 billion in 2009, taking advantage of the flexible trade terms, Trade Minister Felix Mutati said on Thursday.
&nbsp;
Mutati said exports to the DRC, Zambia's largest trading partner in the African trading bloc COMESA, had continued to increase because there were no restrictions on goods it could export to its neighbour...]]></description>
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<title>MSU makes a difference helping farmers in Zambia</title>
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<dc:date>2010-07-14</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Michigan has a bigger hand in helping rural farmers in Zambia than you might think.
For more than a decade, MSU&rsquo;s Department of Agricultural Economics has been working on the Zambia Food Security Research Project, or FSRP. Jan Nijhoff from MSU is currently leading efforts to promote regional trade and sound investment in the agriculture at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, or COMESA&rsquo;s, headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia...]]></description>
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<title>CAADP compact to be signed by Zambia soon </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-28</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lusaka:&nbsp; Zambia is soon expected to sign the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) compact. CAADP aims to help African countries reach a higher path of economic growth through agriculture-led development.
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) secretary general Sindiso Ngwenya said Zambia and Zimbabwe will sign the compact within the next few weeks...]]></description>
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<title>Zambian children's climate conference gets underway</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-28</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lusaka:&nbsp; The Government of the Republic of Zambia and UNICEF will host the Zambian Children's Climate Conference in Lusaka, Zambia from April 26-28, 2010. The national conference is the first of its kind in the world since the international Children's Climate Forum was held last November in Copenhagen, Denmark...]]></description>
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<title>Give folks loans, please - Banda </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-27</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Nkhotakota:&nbsp; Financial institutions in Malawi should be partners with government and provide loans to business to help grow the economy, says Speaker of Parliament Henry Chimunthu Banda.&nbsp; People in rural areas--home to over 80 percent of the population--don't have access to loans but this is where some of the most creative people, who make do with very little, live...]]></description>
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<title>Copper exports rise for 1st quarter</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-24</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lusaka: Copper&nbsp;production in the country in the first quarter of this year jumped to 174,407 tonnes compared with 170,948 tonnes produced during the same period last year. According to fortnight statistics by Bank of Zambia (BoZ), copper exports in the first quarter rose to 173,421 tonnes versus 153,306 tonnes exported in the same period last year...]]></description>
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<title>Govt to spend US$50m annually on increasing electricity accessibility</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-24</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lusaka:&nbsp; The&nbsp;government will have to spend US $50 million (about K250 billion) per year to increase electricity accessibility from current three per cent to 51 per cent, energy minister Kenneth Konga has said.The government, working with other key donors like the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), the World Bank and the Europeans Union and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is rolling out electricity accessibility to rural areas and the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) is implementing the project...]]></description>
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<title>Food prices a growing challenge for many Zambians, observes JCTR</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-23</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lusaka: The&nbsp;Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has said high food prices were increasingly becoming a challenge to many Zambian households. During the release of the March 2010 Basic Needs Baskets (BNB), JCTR coordinator of the social conditions programme Miniva Chibuye stated that the BNB had been exhibiting an upward trend in the cost of food items since the last quarter of 2009...]]></description>
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<title>Govt challenges seed firms to open depots in remote areas</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-20</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lusaka:&nbsp; The&nbsp;government has challenged seed companies in the country to open depots in remote areas to enhance development and the growth of the agricultural sector. Agriculture and cooperatives minister Peter Daka made the appeal at the Pioneer DuPont launch in Chisamba on Thursday where five hybrid maize seed types were unveiled...]]></description>
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<title>Zambia 2010 wheat output up 13.7% </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-14</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lusaka:&nbsp; Zambian 2010 wheat output rose 13.7 percent compared with the previous year to surpass domestic consumption, and the southern African country plans to export part of this surplus, a senior industry official said on Monday.Ndambo Ndambo, the executive director of the Zambia National Farmers' Union (ZNFU) said wheat production in the 2009/2010 season rose to 216,000 tonnes from 190,000 tonnes in the 2008/2009 season thanks to favourable policies, making Zambia the only southern African nation to be self sufficient in wheat...]]></description>
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