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Pan-African Telemedicine System Launched in Tripoli
24 August 2010, source: 2010 - The Tripoli Post
URL: http://tripolipost.com/articledetail.asp?c=1&i=4838
An electronic permanent and distant medicine (telemedicine) learning programme, connecting African hospitals and universities to their Indian counterparts, has just been launched at the Burns Hospital in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. The launching was made under the supervision of the Libyan Specialised Medical Field Council and the Post Offices, Telecommunication and Information Technology Holding in the presence of Jean-Pierre Onvehun Ezin, the African Union Commissioner in charge of Human Resources, Science and Technology...
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African women writers 'renewing dialogue in own words'
24 August 2010, source: Sowetanlive
URL: http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/goodlife/2010/08/24/african-women-writers-renewing-dialogue-in-own-words
LEADING writers from South Africa, the rest of the continent and the diaspora are meeting at a women's symposium, called Women's Voices Unite, in Johannesburg tomorrow.
The symposium, sponsored by the Department of Arts and Culture, will be opened by Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana.
Some of the writers who have confirmed their participation include the award-winning jazz poet Jayne Cortez, Lola Soyinka - poet and novelist (married to novelist and literary critic Wole Soyinka's son ), another Nigerian writer, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, and Tsitsi Dangarebga from Zimbabwe...
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High Level Retreat on the Promotion of Peace and Security
24 August 2010, source: AllAfrica
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/201008250585.html
The African Union (AU), in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Cairo Center for Training on Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping in Africa (CCCPA) and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, will convene in Cairo, Egypt, from 26 to 28 August 2010, a High-Level Retreat on the promotion of peace, security and stability in Africa...
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Food Crisis Threatens Bolivia Due to Climate Change
23 August 2010, source: CRIENGLISH.com
URL: http://english.cri.cn/6966/2010/08/23/2021s590140.htm
Persistent drought, cold weather and flooding, all attributed to climate change, are threatening Bolivia with a food crisis, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and experts have recently warned.
FAO coordinator Einstein Tejada said one fifth of Bolivia's territory now suffer from the effects of climate change, causing food prices to rise...
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AfricaRice to launch Sawah system in Benin, Togo
23 August 2010, source: Bizcommunity.com
URL: http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/412/87/51301.html
COTONOU, BENIN: The Benin-based Africa Rice Centre (AfricaRice), with technical and financial support from Japan has launched a project to help African rice farmers maximise the potential of inland valleys, through ecological management.
Inland valleys in sub-Saharan Africa constitute a largely unexploited land resource of about 190 million hectares that provide opportunities for irrigation and offer potential for sustainable rice expansion and intensification...
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APEC food security forum opens in Taipei
18 August 2010, source: The Central News Agency
URL: http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201008180012&Type=aSOC
Taipei, Aug. 18 (CNA) The first-ever food security forum of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) opened in Taipei Wednesday, hoping to develop an action plan by the end of the three-day meeting, Taiwan's top agriculture officials said.The forum will launch a discussion on establishing a regional food security mechanism, a pressing issue in light of climate change, said Chen Wu-hsiung, the head of the Council of Agriculture (COA) , which organized the forum...
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Climate change worries smallscale farmers- report
18 August 2010, source: http://www.monitor.co.ug
URL: http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Farming/-/689860/978128/-/xekclc/-/index.html
Mzee James Bwete, 70, stood in the doorway of his house at dawn wondering why his village was experiencing a dry spell in August, a month previously characterised by fine rains that are interspersed by sunshine.“We used to have competition between the sun and rain in this month, a reason why it (month) was named Muwakanya (competition) on Buganda calendar,” Mr Bwete, a resident of Mazzi in Wakiso District, recalls...
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Vietnam trade success 'holds hope for Africa'
17 August 2010, source: http://www.terradaily.com
URL: http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Vietnam_trade_success_holds_hope_for_Africa_999.html
Vietnam's success in developing agriculture and transforming itself into a major exporter is an example for Africa, where the communist nation is seeking to increase its ties, officials said Tuesday.
While Vietnam's influence in Africa pales in comparison with China's, a conference in Hanoi heard that there has been rapid growth in trade along with expanding Vietnamese assistance for African farming and other areas...
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Community-based adaptation to climate change in Africa project launched
17 August 2010, source: PreventionWeb
URL: http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/news/v.php?id=15067
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,” said Shepard Zvigadza, Director of the Zimbabwe Environmental Regional Organization (ZERO)...
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Promoting Food Security in East Africa, One Grant at a Time
16 August 2010, source: USAID | East Africa
URL: http://eastafrica.usaid.gov/en/Article.1331.aspx
USAID/East Africa’s Market Linkages Initiative (MLI) signed its first two grants in July—important steps in a program designed to promote food security in East Africa. MLI promotes food security by helping to integrate smallholder staple food producers into national and regional markets across East Africa, in part by teaming its grantees with private sector partners...
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Swaziland assumes Chairmanship of COMESA
28 July 2010, source: ABN Digital
URL: http://www.abndigital.com/multimedia/video/featured-interviews/644424.htm
Swaziland will assume the chairmanship of the 15 member Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa or COMESA at the end of August. We caught up with Swaziland's Minister of Trade, Commerce and Industry, Jabulile Mashwana and asked her about the role Swaziland hopes to play in reforming economic policies within COMESA
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Brazil aspires to be partner, not donor
28 July 2010, source: This is Africa
URL: http://www.thisisafricaonline.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/216/Brazil_aspires_to_be_partner,_not_donor.html?current_page=4
Brazil is also involved in the Farming First initiative, a collaborative effort between a broad range of international agricultural associations, NGOs and members of the business community, aimed at promoting sustainable agricultural development.
Mr Tarrago believes such cooperation is vital if Brazil’s partnership with Africa is to succeed...
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New Cassava Varieties Save Zanzibar's Food Security
25 July 2010, source: nourishingtheplanet
URL: http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/61531
By: nourishingtheplanet Sunday July 25, 2010 4:00 pm
By Catherine Njuguna
Millions of cassava farmers in eastern and central Africa are in distress from viral cassava diseases that are sweeping across the region and ravaging their crops. But their counterparts on the popular tourist island of Zanzibar are undergoing a quiet revolution using new disease-resistant and high-yielding varieties that were introduced three years ago...
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Agribusiness: Solution to Africa's rural seed demand
25 July 2010, source: Truth About Trade
URL: http://www.truthabouttrade.org/news/latest-news/16299-agribusiness-solution-to-africas-rural-seed-demand
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...
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Improving African agricultural sector is the most promising strategy against food insecurity
25 July 2010, source: Cocorioko Newspaper
URL: http://www.cocorioko.net/?p=436
To effectively fight against food crisis that threatens certain regions of Africa, agriculture is perceived today by the major international institutions and African countries as a vital solution. Agricultural development has become the central concern of the continent in the recent years. The idea is to use agriculture as a tool for the continent’s development...
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