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Mozambican tourism boom pits locals against foreigners
07 August 2007, source: Mail and Guardian
URL: http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=315868&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/
Inhaca Island: Stretches of pristine beaches wind around Mozambique's coast, a slice of paradise where trouble is brewing as foreigners cash in at the expense of locals from a boom in tourism.Practically destroyed during a 27-year civil war ending in 1994, tourism in the former Portuguese colony has skyrocketed in recent years, as holidaymakers are drawn to its white sands, crystal clear waters and relaxed atmosphere...
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Use cane, not maize, for fuel - Mboweni
07 August 2007, source: Business Report
URL: http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3967131
Cape Town - Maize farmers, particularly in the Free State, have been urged by Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni not to shift to the production of ethanol as this could push up food prices and distort the maize market. The governor, who addressed the national assembly's finance portfolio committee on Friday, indicated that he preferred a shift to sugar cane as a crop source of biofuels...
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Annan tells EU to help Africa end poverty
07 August 2007, source: The Standard
URL: http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143972432
Africa needs a Marshall Plan anchored on a rejuvenated agricultural sector to rescue the continent from poverty and steer it to economic prosperity. Former United Nations Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, urged European Union leaders to shift aid policy towards supplementing efforts by the African Union to spur agricultural development to end the cycle of poverty...
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African farmers working hard but not for their benefit
07 August 2007, source: Arusha
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200708050048.html
Arusha: One of the major problems of African farmers and industries is that they are simply working to make people in other countries richer. They produce what they do not consume and consume what they do not produce. Tanzania is famous for the production of coffee, sisal, cotton, cashew nuts, among others but most of it is exported raw to developed countries...
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Zambian govt adamant - No GM
07 August 2007, source: SciDev.Net
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200708040020.html
Lusaka: The Zambian government has rejected a call made this week by a group of scientific, agricultural and nongovernmental organisations to use genetically-modified (GM) crops to reduce poverty and hunger. The group -- consisting of AfricaBio, the Africa Biotechnology Stakeholders Forum, Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International, Biotechnology-Ecology Research and Outreach Consortium (BioEROC) and the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Application (ISAAA) -- released a joint press statement endorsing the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which was published in the Times of Zambia on 30 July...
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East African countries deliberate on agricultural challenges
07 August 2007, source: The Reporter
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200708040064.html
Addis Ababa: Representatives of FAO and agricultural experts from Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda yesterday deliberated on the agricultural challenges facing the East African sub-region. The meeting was organized by the FAO sub-regional office for Eastern Africa (SFE) at the Addis Ababa Hilton Hotel...
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Zimbabwe: Farm production declines 14%
06 August 2007, source: Financial Gazette
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200708020783.html
Harare: Zimbabwe's agricultural production for 2006 is estimated to have declined by 14 percent due to operational challenges, farmer unions say. Commercial Farmers' Union (CFU) president Trevor Gifford said a number of issues had contributed to the slump in the sector, the mainstay of the country's economy...
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Continent cannot turn a blind eye to climate change
06 August 2007, source: SciDev.Net
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200708020615.html
Nairobi: African governments need to be more proactive in dealing with the negative consequences of climate change on the continent. Almost every published report on the issue identifies Africa as one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change because of its high dependency on rain-fed agriculture and its low adaptive capacity...
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Is it time to stop treating the continent as a victim?
06 August 2007, source: SciDev.Net
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200708020614.html
Johannesburg: It is commonly upheld -- at least by the media -- that Africa is a frontline victim of climate change. It is true that at the continental scale Africa may suffer because of it is geographic and economic vulnerability. But branding Africa as a victim does a disservice to the many examples of small-scale resilience and adaptive capacity in evidence throughout the continent...
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South-South cooperation 'can change the geography of the planet'
06 August 2007, source: IPS
URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38782
New Delhi: Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, who also heads his country's delegation in multilateral trade negotiations, believes cooperation among developing countries can change the way people perceive the world. It can make developed countries listen to the voices of the rest of the world and, in the process, become more responsive to the aspirations of developing and least-developed nations...
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UN skips gender perspective in climate change
06 August 2007, source: IPS
URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38770
United Nations: When the United Nations concluded a two-day debate Thursday on the potential devastation from climate change, it covered a lot of territory: deforestation, desertification, greenhouse gases, renewable energy sources, biofuels and sustainable development.But one thing the debate lacked, June Zeitlin executive director of the New York-based Women's Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO) told IPS, was a gender perspective...
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Ban on Ghanaian mangoes to South Africa still in force
03 August 2007, source: Myjoyonline
URL: http://www.myjoyonline.com/business/200707/7145.asp
Accra: The ban on mangoes from Ghana to South Africa is still in place, Dr Braimah Harunah, a Senior Research Scientist, Crop Research Institute (CRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research said on Tuesday.The ban, he said, instituted since 2005 was due to the threat that the fruit fly posed to the mango industry in that country...
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Angola boosts own farmers to cut imports
03 August 2007, source: Reuters
URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/consumerproducts-SP-A/idUSL3114697420070731?sp=true
Luanda: Angola has supermarkets after decades of civil war, now it wants to stock them with produce from local farmers in a bid to cut its dependence on imports. Joaquim Gomes, the national director of agriculture, livestock and forestry, said the government was developing a network of warehouses, packaging and refrigeration facilities and wholesale markets and supermarkets to help farmers get their produce to consumers...
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Govt assesses agricultural infrastructures of Malanje province
03 August 2007, source: Angola Press Agency
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200707310940.html
Agricultural and cattle-raising infrastructures of the northern Malanje province will be evaluated, from next August 01 to 03, by the deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Zacarias Sambeny, ANGOP learnt this Tuesday from an official source. During his visit to agricultural and zootechnical experimental stations of Malanje, Zacarias Sambeny will elaborate a plan of necessities, with the aim of restructuring the referred infrastructures...
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South Africa: Government seeking biofuels clarity
03 August 2007, source: Business Day
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200707310213.html
Johannesburg: The government will not be able to develop biofuel legislation this year that would set out policy on biofuel production because consultations were still taking place, Science and Technology Minister Mosibudi Mangena said yesterday. He was speaking at the 26th annual International Society of Sugarcane Technologists' congress in Durban...
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