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<title>Women suffer from false climate change solutions</title>
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<dc:date>2011-03-06</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai once said: "In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace."  Today, Africa, like the world, stands at an important crossroads...]]></description>
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<title>Of climate change and water conservation</title>
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<dc:date>2010-12-28</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[From the complex and intricate discourse of carbon  emissions and their subsequent cuts, reductions, compliance or simply taking no  action at all, to the palliative and massaging of Cancun, where wishes, as usual  failed to become horses, climate change issues will remain skeletons in our  cupboards for some time...]]></description>
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<title>Community-based adaptation to climate change in Africa project launched</title>
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<dc:date>2010-08-17</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) and other partners in Europe and South Asia are undertaking an action research, testing tools for community adaptation, knowledge generation and capacity building project on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa (CBAA) project,&rdquo; said Shepard Zvigadza, Director of the Zimbabwe Environmental Regional Organization (ZERO)...]]></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>RSA poultry producers slam Zim import ban  </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-21</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg:&nbsp; Local poultry producers are facing shrinking exports after the Zimbabwe government banned all poultry importation from South Africa, according to Supreme Poultry managing director Izaak Breitenbach.The Zimbabwean Poultry Association has alleged that South African and South American poultry were heavily injected with a brine saltwater solution to levels as high as 40 percent...]]></description>
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<title>Tobacco sales fail to ease liquidity crunch</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-20</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Harare:&nbsp; Liquidity&nbsp;problems since the adoption of multiple currencies 14 months ago constrain government's capital expenditure and make local industries less competitive. Companies are directly affected by the shortage of cash on the market as they have to borrow at very high rates thereby increasing operational costs...]]></description>
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<title>Women farmers' lack of access to decision making threatens climate adaptation, experts say </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-20</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[HARARE, Zimbabwe (AlertNet) - Sylvia Chipakwe has been a successful subsistence farmer most of her life, surviving through tough times and bad weather with a flexible approach to production.
&nbsp;
"My mother taught me both traditional methods and modern methods of farming, which has helped me to move with the unpredictable rainfall patterns which we have been experiencing over the years," says the 44-year-old, who farms in the Wedza communal land area, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) from Harare...]]></description>
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<title>Zimbabwe's new farmers defend their gains </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-16</dc:date>
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Harare:&nbsp; Under President Robert Mugabe's land reform programme, some 4,000 white farmers have been driven away and their land given to black farmers. The BBC's Dan Isaacs talks to Zimbabwe's new farming class:&nbsp;
Endy Mhlanga, a war veteran of Zimbabwe's war of independence, sits with me in the garage of his recently acquired farmhouse...]]></description>
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<title>The Herald: Address chaos at tobacco floors</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Harare:&nbsp; The&nbsp;chaos at the tobacco auction floors since the start of the current selling season needs urgent redress. Reports of farmers spending days in queues and corrupt dealings that disenfranchise the farmer should prompt the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board and such farmer organisations as the Zimbabwe Farmers' Union to move in to restore order...]]></description>
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<title>UK investors buy into Zimbabwe</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[London:&nbsp; A London-based investment group co-founded by the former chairman of Morgan Stanley International and an old Etonian whose great, great-grandfather invented shorthand, today snapped up a 25% stake in one of Zimbabwe's largest financial services companies, NMBZ Holdings.
African Century was founded two years ago to invest in sub-Saharan Africa by Jonathan Chenevix-Trench &ndash; who spent over 20 years with Morgan Stanley&ndash; and Henry Pitman, former boss of the support services group Tribe and a man whose surname is known to anyone who has learned shorthand...]]></description>
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<title>Comesa promotes conservation farming </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-15</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Bulawayo:&nbsp; Legislators from Common Market for East and Southern Africa member states have endorsed conservation agriculture as a viable and sustainable agricultural system, which if properly applied, can lead to increased farm yields and the attainment of food security at the household, national and regional levels...]]></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>Food supplies better despite poor harvest in some areas - FEWSNET</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-12</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Harare:&nbsp; Although Zimbabwe's 2010 maize harvest is likely to fall short of 2009 output, the country is more secure in its food supplies than it was last year due to a stirring economy and grain market liberalization the U.S.-based Famine Early Warning System Network says.
A new FEWSNET report said maize and other staple foods are readily available and maize prices have come down from last year, particularly in areas that had good harvests and due to the emergence of a freer market in cereals under the country's unity government...]]></description>
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<title>SA exports 58% more tobacco products in 2009</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-12</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[One thing you can say for global economic crises, they do increase people's smoking habits. Exports from South Africa of tobacco products leapt by 58% during last year, according to figures given in Parliament by the Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies.&nbsp;
Giving a written reply to a Parliamentary question from Cecilia Kotsi of the Congress of the People, the minister noted that exports generally declined in 2009 because of the crisis, but it also seems likely from his reply that exports of booze were also up &ndash; although they were aggregated under 'food products (processed)'...]]></description>
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<title>"Comprehensive social security system needed"</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-12</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Bulawayo: According&nbsp;to the US Economic Policy Institute, social security benefits significantly reduce poverty among senior citizens. While 12 percent of the elderly in the US live in poverty, more than 50 percent of seniors would live in abject poverty without social security.
In Zimbabwe, the Government will soon appoint a new board for the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) to succeed the one led by Mr Albert Nhau, whose term expired at the end of March...]]></description>
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