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Illegal logging still rife in Nampula
16 August 2007, source: Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200708131376.html
Maputo: The illegal export of unprocessed logs is still rife in the Port of Nacala, in the northern region of Mozambique, reports Monday's issue of the daily paper "Noticias". Despite the existing country's legislation, that effectively bans the export of unprocessed precious hardwood, this trade continues to flourish with the authorities seeming unable to stop this illegal activity for the dismay of some licensed operators...
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India: Boost to agribusiness will benefit farmers
16 August 2007, source: The Economic TImes
URL: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/Economy/Boost_to_agribusiness_will_benefit_farmers_experts/articleshow/2275899.cms
Lucknow: The boost to agribusiness with the entry of large business houses would eventually benefit the Indian farmer in a major way, participants at an international conference say. The three-day conference on Agribusiness and Food Industry in Developing Countries that concluded Sunday was hosted by the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L) in collaboration with Tennessee State University and South Carolina University of the US...
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Watershed service payments 'could make a difference'
16 August 2007, source: IIED
URL: http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/152265/1/
An innovative approach to managing water resources could bring social, economic and environmental benefits in developing countries, but as major new research shows, all that glitters is not gold. The research by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and its partners will be presented today (16 August) in Sweden at World Water Week, a gathering of 2,500 water experts from 130 nations...
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Botswana subscribes to establishment of SADC food security
15 August 2007, source: BOPA
URL: http://www.gov.bw/cgi-bin/news.cgi?d=20070813&i=Botswana_subscribes_to_establishment_of_SADC_food_security
Gaborone: Botswana subscribes to the idea of a food reserve facility for the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Mr Baledzi Gaolathe, said. Botswana, as a net importer of food stuff, is in supportive of any plans geared towards boosting food security in the region, he said...
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'Climate change to hit poor nations harder'
15 August 2007, source: The Herald
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200708140048.html
Developing countries will be hit harder by climate change because they do not have the capacity to adapt as fast as richer countries, says the Minister of Environment and Tourism Cde Francis Nhema.Speaking at the opening of the STI-ACT 2007 workshop on climate change in Harare on Wednesday, Cde Nhema said global warming was "truly" a global problem affecting the human race and all natural systems...
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Kenya: If we don't act now, we are all doomed
15 August 2007, source: The Nation (Nairobi)
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200708130287.html
Nairobi: Scientific research shows that the earth is warming fast in a process that could make planet Earth inhabitable by humans and other species.To many governments, corporations and populations throughout the world, climate change is an important issue that should receive urgent attention. From all the scientific data and observations there is a looming crisis that has been developing since the beginning of the industrial revolution in mid 18th century...
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World faces new threats of water scarcity
15 August 2007, source: IPS
URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38882
Stockholm: The world is on the verge of "a new and more serious era of water scarcity" than ever before, is the ominous warning coming out of an international water conference here.The physical availability of water is being endangered by a rash of new threats, including climate change, increase in global population and the sudden growth of the water-hungry bioenergy sector...
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Malnutrition rate falls in W/A sub region
15 August 2007, source: The Statesman
URL: http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/news_detail.php?newsid=4429§ion=1
A senior Policy Officer of the Food and Agriculture Organisation in the West Africa sub-region, T B Tshibaka has announced that the rate of under nourishment in the sub-region has fallen from 36 percent to 33 percent, and if the trend continues, more would be achieved towards effort to eradicate the problem from the region...
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Regional integration on SADC agenda
14 August 2007, source: Mail and Guardian Online
URL: http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleId=316391&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/
Johannesburg: The debate on a United States of Africa is set to continue at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) meeting scheduled to begin in Lusaka, Zambia, today. In a statement released on Sunday, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said the SADC Council of Ministers would discuss a report on regional economic integration...
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FAO Introduces New Farming Technologies in Mozambique
14 August 2007, source: Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200708131377.html
The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) is currently introducing new farming technologies in Mozambique, to improve productivity, particularly in the low yielding areas.At the family sector level, in some of the Mozambican regions, peasant farmers are reported to achieve a meager yield of 500 kilos of maize per hectare, which is half or even less, compared with other countries in the Southern African region such as Malawi and Zambia...
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Kenyan tea now facing stiff competition
14 August 2007, source: East African News
URL: http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/News/news13080713.htm
Kenya tea is facing increasingly stiff competition in world markets, with former importers Rwanda, Malawi, Vietnam and Nepal now exporting their own tea. This comes at a time that the country is struggling to retain its existing markets, encourage domestic consumption and diversify from traditional exports, among them tea...
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Need to develop goat industry
14 August 2007, source: The Swazi Observer
URL: http://www.observer.org.sz/main.php?id=37209§ion=Business
DESPITE having a population of over 400 000 goats, Swaziland has no existing goat industry. This emerged during a TechnoServe presentation during the goat farmers meeting at the Caritas Centre in Manzini last Friday. Close to four hundred farmers attended the goat farmers meeting. Kingdom Kid, the umbrella body for all goat traders in Swaziland, convened the meeting...
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Tailor development approach to local conditions
14 August 2007, source: East African News
URL: http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/News/news1308076.htm
Developed countries have used a broad range of economic approaches in their development strategies. In fact, the current success of China, India, Brazil and certain other developing countries is attributable to the fact that they chose appropriate strategies rather than economic policies prescribed by those driving globalisation...
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Cotton production in booming in central and northern Mozambique
14 August 2007, source: Mozambique Business - Daily Investor Intelligence
Maputo: Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province this year saw a record production of cotton of 43,000 tons, compared with 23,000 tons in the previous season. The weekly electronic publication, Investor reports citing the Mozambique News Agency (AIM) that for the first time Cabo Delgado production of raw cotton has overtaken that of all other provinces...
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Uganda's regional trade doubles in five years
13 August 2007, source: Citizen
URL: http://www.citizen.co.za/index/article.aspx?pDesc=44968,1,22
London: Uganda's trade with its neighbours in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) has doubled over the last five years, Comesa said on Monday. Exports, mainly of agricultural products, rose from US122 million in 2001 (about r1.1 billion) to US249 million in 2005. Overall imports went up from US295 million in 2001 to US565 million in 2005...
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