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South Africa: Sow seeds of a new conversation
13 August 2007, source: Business Day
URL: http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A534063
Johannesburg: Thirteen years on from a new dispensation in SA, and 27 years beyond a new dispensation in Zimbabwe, it is at once fascinating and disturbing to see that land remains at the core of political incoherence. In one place, white farmers cannot get out fast enough, while in another white farmers cannot be made to budge...
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India: President to focus on food security
13 August 2007, source: NewsPost India
URL: http://newspostindia.com/report-10239
New Delhi: Twelve days after she took over as India's president, Pratibha Patil Monday stepped out of the Rashtrapati Bhavan for her first 'public assignment' to express concern on agricultural strategies, gender and food security.Patil's decision to preside over a special lecture by FAO Director General Jacques Diouf on 'Agriculture cannot wait' was a deliberate one...
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Symposium seeks answers to Kenya’s health and nutrition problems
13 August 2007, source: Biodiversity International
URL: http://news.bioversityinternational.org/
Nairobi: A one-day symposium on nutrition and health trends took place at the headquarters of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) on 3rd August 2007. The meeting, co-organized by Bioversity International, also looked at local and global initiatives to address the problems of dietary simplification and unhealthy lifestyles, and aimed to develop a course of action that would promote dietary diversity in local diets through traditional foods...
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Zambia ready to share vision during SADC summit
13 August 2007, source: African Presse Agency
URL: http://www.afriquenligne.fr/news/daily_news/zambia_ready_to_share_vision_during_sadc_summit_200708064989/
Lusaka: Zambia's vision, as it takes over the leadership of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) this August, is to expedite the implementation of the SADC Trade Protocol with a view to launch the SADC Free Trade Area in 2008. In Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Felix Mutati's view, improving the market access of the SADC preferential trade agreement will require the recommendations of the mid-term review to be addressed, more specially, a movement towards simplified rules of origin and elimination of non-tariff barriers...
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SA's eco-prophecy
13 August 2007, source: Mail and Guardian
URL: http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=314717&area=/insight/insight__national/
Johannesburg: "Skorokoro", "Tata ma chance", "Going nowhere slowly" and "Laduma!" -- these are the four environmental scenarios facing South Africa, says the consultancy at the forefront of the government-commissioned report, South Africa Environment Outlook...
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Cashew production set to rise in Mozambique in 2007
13 August 2007, source: African Press Agency
URL: http://www.afriquenligne.fr/news/daily_news/cashew_production_set_to_rise_in_mozambique_in_2007_200708065007/
Maputo: Mozambique's cashew nut authorities said on Monday that production of the crop could increase by 5,000 tons to reach 80,000 tons this year due to replanting and control of diseases. The National Cashew Institute (Incaju) said 3.5 million cashew trees were sprayed this year to combat fungal disease affecting the plants, particularly while the crop is flowering...
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US: Ethanol is feeding hot market for farmland
13 August 2007, source: New York Times
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/us/08farmers.html?th&emc=th
DEKALB, Ill. - While much of the nation worries about a slumping real estate market, people in Midwestern farm country are experiencing exactly the opposite. Take, for instance, the farm here - nearly 80 acres of corn and soybeans off a gravel road in a universe of corn and soybeans - that sold for $10,000 an acre at auction this spring, a price that astonished even the auctioneer...
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Kenya: Govt in measures to enhance food security
12 August 2007, source: Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
URL: http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=51145
Nairobi: The government has put in place several measures to ensure food security in the country, Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka has said. Mr. Musyoka said some of the steps include the empowerment of all stakeholders in the sector as well as the reviewing of the policies and legal frameworks with a view to making agriculture an economic activity that could attract private investments and create employment for the youth...
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Mogae speech at Zambia Agricultural Show
08 August 2007, source: Tautona Times No 26/ 2007
Statement by H.E. Mr. Festus G. Mogae, President of the Republic of Botswana, at the Official opening of the 81st Zambian Agricultural and Commercial Show in Lusaka (02/08/2007):Thank you very much for making it possible for me to be associated with this historic event, namely the 81st Lusaka Agricultural and Commercial Show of Lusaka...
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Arid E Cape bush will earn millions in carbon credits
08 August 2007, source: The Herald
URL: http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/news/n04_25072007.htm
Grahamstown: A 400-hectare area of Eastern Cape thicket in the Kirkwood area is poised to become the first Eastern Cape project to earn more than R1-million a year in carbon credits in a bid to reduce the world‘s greenhouse gases.The area falls under the Baviaanskloof Mega Reserve. Former water affairs and forestry department technical adviser Mike Powell, who heads the Rhodes Restoration Research Group, said at the annual meeting of the Thicket Forum - taking place at the 42nd annual congress of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa at Rhodes University - said that Eastern Cape thicket which had been degraded by farming and was successfully rehabilitated, was able to store four times more carbon in the soil...
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Namibia: Martin aims to boost beef market
08 August 2007, source: New Era
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200708030916.html
Windhoek: The driving force behind the proposed new Witvlei Feedlot, Sidney Martin, says the aim of the feedlot is to ensure that Namibian beef producers receive better prices for their animals - not worse. He says international beef prices will determine the price the company pays to local producers - not the price of maize in South Africa, as is currently the case...
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Namibia: Emerging farmers emerge
08 August 2007, source: The Namibian
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200708030685.html
Windhoek: A newly created agriculture forum wants to find a common overarching structure for all farmers in Namibia. The Namibia Emerging Commercial Farmers' Forum (NECFF) was created last weekend. It plans to work closely with both the Namibia National Farmers' Union (NNFU), which represents communal farmers, and the Namibia Agricultural Union (NAU)...
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Help us develop our education, agri & tourism sectors, says Tanzania
08 August 2007, source: Malaysian National News Agency
URL: Help Us Develop Our Education, Agri & Tourism Sectors, Says Tanzania
Langkawi: Largely agrarian Tanzania is keen to learn from Malaysia ways to better develop its education, agriculture and tourism sectors to diversify its economy, raise income levels and ultimately overcome poverty.Tanzania's Industry, Trade and Marketing Minister, Basil P. Mramba, said he has personally come for the Langkawi International Dialogue this year to take the opportunity learn about Malaysia's smart partnership ways in embracing development...
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Angola: Agriculture minister calls for hard work to combat poverty
08 August 2007, source: Angola Press Agency
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200708061534.html
Luanda: Angola's Agriculture and Rural Development minister, Afonso Pedro Canga said Monday in Luanda that the combat to famine and poverty requires hard work and dedication. Addressing the opening ceremony of the II Ordinary General Assembly analysing the balance of the Confederation of the Associations of Peasants and Cattle-Raising Cooperatives - Unaca, the minister urged the peasant class for a greater participation in farming programmes, approved by the government, aimed at eradicating hunger and poverty...
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Canadian firm to make biodiesel fuel in Mozambique
08 August 2007, source: African Press Agency
URL: http://www.afriquenligne.fr/news/daily_news/canadian_firm_to_make_biodiesel_fuel_in_mozambique_200708075127/
Maputo: Energem Resources of Canada said Tuesday that it had acquired a 70 per cent of shares in a renewable energy venture in Mozambique that will use jatropha to produce biodiesel fuel. The firm said that under the terms of its purchase, it will invest up to US$55 million, including the planting of an additional 5,000 hectares of jatropha and the acquisition of another 60,000 hectares to produce the biomass crop...
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