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The Swaziland Story: Celebrating a successful maize crop
08 April 2011, source: FANRPAN
URL: http://www.fanrpan.org/documents/d01108/
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...
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FANRPAN has become a member of the Agricultural Writers Association
04 April 2011, source: FANRPAN
URL: http://www.fanrpan.org/
The association is a voluntary, non-profitmaking professional association promoting the image and standards of agricultural journalism in South Africa. It was established in Pretoria in 1977. The association is representative of more than 100 agricultural journalists serving the industry through magazines, newspapers, radio and television...
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Malawian Cotton Farmers Ecstatic Over High Prices
29 March 2011, source: Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa
URL: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55049
An ardent listener to the radio, small-scale cotton farmer Mercy Kaduya from Chikhwawa in Nsanje in southern Malawi has just heard on the international news segment that cotton prices have hit a record high on the international market."I am very excited. I am looking forward to selling my cotton produce this year...
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Kenya: Sustainable Energy in the Heart of the Slums
29 March 2011, source: Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa
URL: http://www.ips.org/africa/2011/03/kenya-sustainable-energy-in-the-heart-of-the-slums/
NAIROBI – Talk about foul foundations: the Katwekera Tosha Bio Centre is built on the stuff that goes into toilets. This community centre in the Nairobi slum of Kibera goes well beyond solving sanitation problems – it is a model for green energy, a meeting place for locals, and turning a profit for its operators...
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Botswana: Women in Politics - A House Divided... But Determined
29 March 2011, source: Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa
URL: http://www.ips.org/africa/2011/03/botswana-women-in-politics-a-house-divided-but-determined/
GABORONE - “The Botswana Caucus for Women in Politics has failed to realise the objectives it was intended for, but we will not give up on it just yet,” says Margaret Nasha.
The BCWP is a platform established to enable women from all political parties to converge and support each other in their attempts to make their mark in a male-dominated field...
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Growing Opposition to Military Intervention in Libya
28 March 2011, source: Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa
URL: http://www.ips.org/africa/2011/03/latin-america-growing-opposition-to-military-intervention-in-libya-2/
RIO DE JANEIRO - Latin America is still divided over the military intervention in Libya. But the nations that were initially opposed to it are gradually hardening their stance as the objective of the Western powers taking part in the air strikes authorised by the U.N. Security Council to protect civilians becomes less and less clear...
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Zambia: Women Resume Struggle for Representation Ahead of Elections
28 March 2011, source: Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa
URL: http://www.ips.org/africa/2011/03/zambia-women-resume-struggle-for-representation-ahead-of-elections/
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...
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Eyeing the Money, Not Development
28 March 2011, source: Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa
URL: http://www.ips.org/africa/2011/03/trade-southern-african-rulers-eyeing-the-money-not-development/
WINDHOEK - A new revenue sharing formula in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) could boost development but has met with resistance from the governments of poorer states in the sub-region that are interested in “just getting the money”.
Differences over the economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with the EU nearly tore the customs union apart in 2010; now the issue of the revenue sharing formula has become equally contentious...
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Africa: Agricultural Policy is Gender Policy
16 March 2011, source: AllAfrica.com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/201103170167.html
Washington - Eva, a Ghanian woman, was given five pigs and some training on how best to care for them. Eventually, her farm grew to 400 pigs and she was able to buy more land and a motorbike which she not only used for transporting her goods to market but for helping neighbours get to town and to hospital quicker...
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FANRPAN and Farming First Join Hands in Celebrating 100 Years of International Women's Day
08 March 2011, source: TrustLaw
URL: http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/blogs/100-years-of-international-womens-day/women-farmers-voiceless-pillars-of-african-agriculture
Women Farmers: Voiceless Pillars of African AgricultureAs we mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future, it is unfortunate that it is only those women who enjoy a space and platform in academics, science, economics and politics who are celebrated and yet in Africa there is a deserving group of extraordinary women who still have no voice – the African women farmers...
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Africa: Unlocking Africa's Moment
08 March 2011, source: AllAfrica.com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/201103080713.html
On International women's Day, many events are held in centres across the world to celebrate the achievements of women through the ages. This is a day to inspire women, especially those who are still advocating for development, equality and justice for women and girls, particularly here on our beloved African continent...
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Banquet highlights food disparities
07 March 2011, source: mndaily.com
URL: http://www.mndaily.com/2011/03/07/banquet-highlights-food-disparities
Oxfam America’s Hunger Banquet kicked off International Women’s Week. By Amanda Bankston
Deqa Muhidin was expecting a lot more than 4 ounces of rice and a glass of water for dinner when she attended Oxfam America’s Hunger Banquet on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus Friday...
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UN: Women farmers could slash number of hungry by up to 17 percent
07 March 2011, source: Monsters and Critics
URL: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1624176.php/UN-Women-farmers-could-slash-number-of-hungry-by-up-to-17-per-cent
Rome - Women in rural areas could help reduce by up to 17 per cent the number of the world's hungry which currently stands at almost 1-billion, according to a report issued Monday by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
If women had the same access to land, technology, financial services, education and markets as men, agricultural production could be increased and the number of hungry people reduced by 100-150 million, the Rome-based FAO said in the 2010-11 edition of its The State of Food and Agriculture report...
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Women suffer from false climate change solutions
06 March 2011, source: NewsDay
URL: http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2011-03-06-women-suffer-from-false-climate-change-solutions
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...
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Climate Change highlights need for Women to take Greater Role in Forest Management, say experts
06 March 2011, source: The Morung Express
URL: http://www.morungexpress.com/analysis/63137.html
Women are the main users of forests in developing countries – gathering food and firewood – but they continue to be sidelined in how the forests are managed despite years of efforts to mainstream their involvement, experts said ahead of International Women's Day on March 8.Research shows that greater involvement of women in forest management usuall y improves the condition and sustainability of the forests...
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