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<title>Growth with resilience: An opportunity for African agriculture</title>
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<dc:date>2012-03-21</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Many African countries are growing fast. African GDP is growing at about 6% per year and over the past decade, 6 of the world's 10 fastest grow&not;ing countries were African. But this growth remains fragile.  Economic growth in low income countries has been, in part, driven by faster agricultural growth...]]></description>
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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>Revolution in African Agriculture Gathering Momentum</title>
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<dc:date>2010-09-13</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[ACCRA, Sep 2 (IPS) - As one major meeting on agriculture ends, another begins: farming is truly back on Africa's agenda."Africa's agricultural sector has the potential not only to feed its own people but to become the breadbasket of the world," Dr Lindiwe Majele Sibanda said in Windhoek. "Africa also has 60 per cent of the world's uncultivated arable land, and the potential exists for African yields to grow in value by more than three-fold by the year 2030, from $280 billion today to $880 billion...]]></description>
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<title>Stop paying lip service to agriculture, says Kofi Annan</title>
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<dc:date>2010-09-03</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[
Accra: African governments have been asked to stop paying lip-service to agriculture and implement policies that will help transform the sector into a profitable business venture...


&nbsp;
The Chairman of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Kofi Annan, speaking at the African Green Revolution forum in Accra, said the continent is currently facing huge challenges in its effort to end poverty, hunger and transform agriculture into an engine of economic development because of weak policy support, lack of finance and markets especially for smallholder farmers...]]></description>
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<title>Bring on the green revolution</title>
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<dc:date>2010-08-25</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Africa is the poorest continent on earth, despite housing the lion's share of the planet's natural resources as well as vast tracts of underutilised fertile and potentially productive agricultural land. It has one of the lowest population densities in the world, 29 people a square kilometre, and is home to 14% of the globe's population while making up 22% of the world's land mass...]]></description>
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<title>Agribusiness: Solution to Africa's rural seed demand </title>
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<dc:date>2010-07-25</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[KAMPALA, UGANDA - A network of African agribusinesses wants greater support for the development of private entrepreneurship in rural areas. Participants of the first ever Strategic Planning Workshop on Agrodealer Development in Kampala, Uganda recently, raised the need for more training and capacity building in business management, greater access to finance, and higher quality farm inputs, particularly improved seeds, to meet increased farmer demand in support of an Africa-wide effort to transform small-scale agriculture from subsistence to business...]]></description>
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<title>Africa Can Grow Biofuel Crops Without Harming Food, Habitats, Study Shows</title>
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<dc:date>2010-07-23</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Africa can grow biofuel crops on a &ldquo;significant scale&rdquo; without damaging food production or natural habitats, researchers said.
A study of biofuel production in Senegal, Mali, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia and Mozambique found enough land is available to &ldquo;significantly&rdquo; raise cultivation of sugar cane, sorghum and jatropha for energy production without reducing food output, the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, or FARA, said in a statement today...]]></description>
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<title>Fund to invest in improved seed production</title>
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<dc:date>2010-07-22</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[By: Daniel Nonorimproved seeds The West Africa Agricultural Investment Fund (WAAIF) and Injaro Investments Limited (Injaro) have announced the First Closing of the first ever West African fund focused on investing in indigenous seed production companies. The initial investors in the fund are -The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the Lundin for Africa Society, a Vancouver-based foundation...]]></description>
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<title>African states sow seeds of cooperation</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-30</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[London:&nbsp; Seed security is an issue that farmers around the world consider vitally important to protecting their crops and boosting productivity. Yet amid global debates on achieving food security and better rural livelihoods, this issue is often given only peripheral attention.
Throughout Africa, seeds are expensive, of poor quality and difficult to access due to trade barriers...]]></description>
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<title>Namibia to produce own biodiesel </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-22</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Katima Mulilo:&nbsp;LL Biofuels Namibia, a highly ambitious foreign-initiated and multi-billion-dollar venture, has secured 300&nbsp;000 hectares of land from chiefs in Caprivi to plant jatropha, whose seeds will be press-crushed to produce much-sought-after biodiesel.Biodiesel that could be used as fuel for trains, vehicles, trucks, ships and aircraft has many advantages in that unlike fossil fuels, it has fewer emissions and is a less pollutant fuel...]]></description>
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<title>Farmers urged to adopt organic farming</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-20</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Kampala:&nbsp; Uganda&nbsp;has the potential to reap from the booming global agricultural market if entrepreneurs adopt organic farming. &ldquo;Let us focus on the use of organic fertilisers and minimise the use of synthetic soil additives which limit the sustenance of soil fertility,&rdquo; Charles Rusoke, a consultant at AgroCare Services, said at a conference held at Makerere University in Kampala last week...]]></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>Sir Gordon Conway: The challenges of achieving a green revolution in Africa</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-16</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[London:&nbsp; Local solutions, not "blueprints" of ideas from outsiders, are needed if Africa is going to experience a green revolution, according to former chief scientific adviser Professor Sir Gordon Conway.&nbsp;&nbsp; In an interview with the FarmingFirst coalition, Sir Gordon, professor of international development at Imperial College, London, and former chief scientific adviser to the UK's Department for International Development, said replicating in Africa the agricultural successes achieved in Asia after the food crisis in the 1960s would require a completely different approach...]]></description>
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<title>ACTESA identifies key areas of investment in agricultural trade</title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-13</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lusaka:&nbsp; Alliance&nbsp;for Commodity Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa (ACTESA) chief executive officer, Dr Cris Muyunda has identified key areas that need priority investments to promote regional agricultural trade in eastern and southern Africa.During a regional agriculture and food security forum in Livingstone that ran from April 6-9, 2010, Dr Muyunda said ACTESA had identified the areas that needed priority investments in order to promote agricultural trade and increase productivity...]]></description>
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<title>"Only few farmers can access high yielding crop seedling' </title>
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<dc:date>2010-04-09</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Lagos:&nbsp; Very few farmers in Africa have access to high yielding seed varieties and this is a major constraint for improving crop yields.&nbsp; Hosting a meeting with seed experts, the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) said recent statistics shows that less than one third of the farmers in Africa use improved seed due to fear of losing farm yields...]]></description>
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