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Climate conversations - Swazi farmer brings 'happy' ending to food security woes
18 November 2011, source: AlertNet
URL: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/blogs/climate-conversations/swazi-farmer-brings-happy-ending-to-food-security-woes/
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...
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Alexander von Humboldt Foundation invites applications for International Climate Protection Fellowships
02 November 2011, source: fundsforngos.org
URL: http://www.fundsforngos.org/fellowships-2/alexander-von-humboldt-foundation-invites-applications-international-climate-protection-fellowships/#ixzz1cSid53VC
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is inviting applications for the third round of International Climate Protection Fellowships programme. Each year, the foundation awards up to 20 fellowships to individuals from developing or emerging countries working for climate protection and resource conservation issues...
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Are you ready to Connect4Climate? World Bank kicks off social media climate campaign with photo/video competition for African youth
28 October 2011, source: Word Press
URL: http://appablog.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/are-you-ready-to-connect4climate-world-bank-kicks-off-social-media-climate-campaign-with-photovideo-competition-for-african-youth/
PRETORIA, South-Africa - The World Bank, in collaboration with more than 30 global partners, is launching the Connect4Climate initiative (http://www.connect4climate.org) - a campaign, a competition, and a community that cares about climate change.
The campaign kicks off today with a photo/video competition for African youth, aged 13 to 35, which is designed to raise awareness about climate change...
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Women seen key to solving hunger issues in Africa
16 October 2011, source: Reuters
URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/16/us-africa-hunger-women-idUSTRE79F2A820111016
Sub-Saharan Africa faces daunting problems staving off famine in coming decades but food and development experts also say one solution to the problem is obvious: empower women.
"They are the major producers of food crops in Africa. If we want to make a real headway on food production, we should be able to invest in women, improve their skills and access to the inputs they require," said Namanga Ngongi, president, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), a top seed producer...
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Young people 'could drive African farm revival'
16 October 2011, source: AFP
URL: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jLU_r36BAHeT6Np6MAzaJiXV4ZTA?docId=CNG.dd3240a9e50664847803d5bf828f1bb5.8d1
Young people could be the key to boosting African agriculture, but they need inducements to stay in the countryside, participants at an ILO regional meeting here said.
"The rural world is especially marked by an absence of youths. ... We need a system to motivate them to stay," Senegalese union representative Atoumane Diaw told the meeting...
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Supporting rural women farmers is the solution to eradicating hunger in Rwanda
15 October 2011, source: Salem-News.com
URL: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october152011/rwanda-hunger-jf.php
The Rwandan government must make concrete invest in the specific needs of rural women farmers as the only sustainable solution to eradicating hunger and ensuring abundant quality food, said Actionaid in its message to mark the International Rural Women's Day and World Food Day, today.
The government and its development partners should make clear investments that ensure increased production for rural women like access soft loan, affordable agriculture inputs, improved quality rural extension service, adoption of measures to make extension workers are accountable to women farmers and creation of rural women farmers’ guarantee fund...
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Climate Conversations - Enticing Africa's youth to agriculture
07 October 2011, source: AlertNet
URL: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/blogs/climate-conversations/enticing-africas-youth-to-agriculture/
Today's generation of young people is the largest in history. In developing countries, young people, aged 15 to 24 years old, make up on average 20 percent of the global population and represent a huge potential resource to their countries.
Yet ironically, rural areas are not benefiting fully from this resource (Globally, young people are three times more likely to be unemployed than adults)...
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Africa expects deal on agriculture at COP 17
27 September 2011, source: Bua News
URL: http://www.buanews.gov.za/news/11/11092715051001
Pretoria - African negotiators at the upcoming COP 17 in Durban should push for a binding and responsible climate deal on agriculture. Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) CEO, Dr Lindiwe Sibanda, said African negotiators should make it their priority to secure a deal that will promote food security for climate change not to wreak havoc any further in the African continent...
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Southern Africa: Region Launches Agricultural Research Centre
01 September 2011, source: AllAfrica.com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/201109010735.html
The launch of a regional agricultural research centre has demonstrated SADC's commitment to improving food security in the region. Located in Gaborone, Botswana, the Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development in Southern Africa (CCARDESA) aims to coordinate and stimulate agricultural growth through research, technology development and dissemination of research information to farmers...
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United Nations High-level Meeting on Youth, 25-26 July 2011
26 July 2011, source: International Year of Youth
URL: http://social.un.org/youthyear/high-level-meeting.html
As part of the International Year of Youth, the General Assembly will hold a high-level meeting on youth on 25 and 26 July 2011. The High Level Meeting will have as its overarching theme “Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding”.
The High Level Meeting on Youth is scheduled to take place from 25 to 26 July 2011 at the General Assembly, United Nations Headquarters in New York...
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Investing in Youth for a Green Agricultural Revolution
30 June 2011, source: AllAfrica.com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/201106301129.html
This week, African leaders and heads of state are gathering in Equatorial Guinea's capital, Malabo, to discuss the state of affairs in Africa and the role of young people and their contribution to long-term development in Africa.
Given the youthful face driving the so-called "Arab Spring," the focus on young people at the annual summit of Africa's leaders is both timely and fitting...
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CCMP Fellowships to UNFCCC's COP17 climate change conference in South Africa
20 June 2011, source: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
URL: http://www.iied.org/climate-change/media/ccmp-fellowships-unfcccs-cop17-climate-change-conference-south-africa
The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) is proud to announce the launch of a Fellowship program that will send journalists to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban (COP17) in late 2011.
The Fellowships are open predominantly to journalists from developing countries, but journalists from the US and Russia are also welcome to apply...
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Seccap: Searching for solutions to climate change
15 June 2011, source: The Nation
URL: http://www.nationmw.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21163:seccap-searching-for-solutions-to-climate-change-&catid=27:development&Itemid=22
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)...
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Women Breaking Through Trade Barriers
20 April 2011, source: Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa
URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55326
LILONGWE - For 12 years now, the women around Tsangano in Malawi’s southern district of Ntcheu have put together their tomato harvest, selling some 20 tons at the outdoor markets that abound in Lilongwe, the capital. But they have very little to show for their hard work.Ntcheu and its neighbouring districts, Dedza and Salima, have many smallholder farmers with large gardens overflowing with tomatoes and other vegetables such as cabbages, onions, carrots, green pepper and lettuce...
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The World Bank Open Forum on Food
15 April 2011, source: Farming First
URL: http://www.farmingfirst.org/2011/04/the-world-bank-open-forum-on-food/
At the World Bank Open Forum on Food, an expert panel addressed the issue of how to solve the global food crisis in front of an audience of about 120 guests… and streamed live to hundreds more viewers.
FANRPAN CEO and Farming First spokesperson Dr. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda took part in one of the panel sessions, which included with Calestous Juma, of Harvard University, David Beckman from Bread for the World, World Bank Vice-President Inger Andersen...
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