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Land titles cancelled in Maputo Province
28 June 2007, source: AIM
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200706260929.html
Maputo: The Maputo Provincial Directorate of Agriculture is making good on a longstanding threat to cancel the land tenure rights of investors who fail to use the land allocated to them. According to a report in Tuesday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias", inspectors visited 287 land concessions in five districts - and found that 95 of them had been abandoned...
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Namibia: O & L Group donates farm to former workers
28 June 2007, source: The Namibian
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200706251204.html
A group of 26 retrenched farmworkers has received ownership of a commercial farm from their former employer to enable them to build a sustainable future in agriculture. The Ohlthaver & List Group gave the 3 200-hectare farm Okandjira, northeast of Okahandja, to the workers and their families...
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Mozambique growth showcased at development aid meeting
28 June 2007, source: World Bank
URL: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21385805~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html
Maputo: Before Nelia Mangate had a cell phone, it wasn't easy for her to communicate with clients far away from her shop in Maputo, Mozambique. A letter might take five or six days to get to its destination."But now I can have an immediate answer," says Mangate. "Even if I don't have air minutes, I can still send an SMS (Short Message Service)...
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Zimbabwe: Food a political tool?
28 June 2007, source: IPS
URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38300
Harare: Zimbabwe's escalating food crisis comes amid resurgent accusations that food aid is being abused as a political tool. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have said that more than 2,1 million Zimbabweans in both rural and urban areas will be in dire need of food aid in the third quarter of this year...
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Germany supports EA farmers in integration
28 June 2007, source: The East African
URL: http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/News/News2506072.htm
The German government has approved $136,364 to support a sensitisation programme for farmers on the East African Community integration process. The money to be spent over the next three years, will be channelled through the Eastern African Farmers Federation (EAFF), an apex body of national farmers' organisations in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo...
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Security Council examines role of natural resources in fueling conflicts
28 June 2007, source: International Herald Tribune
URL: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/26/news/UN-GEN-UN-Resource-Conflicts.php
United Nations: The Security Council examined the role played by diamonds, poppies, oil and timber in fueling conflicts and destabilizing nations - a debate that angered some countries who said the U.N.'s most powerful body was trying to undermine their sovereignty.Good management and governance of natural resources are essential to worldwide peace and stability, council president Karel de Gucht, Belgium's foreign minister, said Monday...
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For Ugandan farmers, agricultural tips just a phone call away
28 June 2007, source: VOA News
URL: http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2007-06-25-voa30.cfm
Kampala: In Uganda, a new project is using cell phones to send farmers valuable farming tips by text message. The scheme is also helping farmers focus on growing lucrative export crops. The development experts behind the effort say sharing knowledge between - and among -- farmers will help increase food production and reduce poverty...
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Influx from Zimbabwe to South Africa tests both
27 June 2007, source: New York Times
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/world/africa/23zimbabwe.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=all
Johannesburg: As Zimbabwe's disintegration gathers potentially unstoppable momentum, a swelling tide of migrants is moving into neighboring South Africa, driven into exile by oppression, unemployment and inflation so relentless that many goods now double in price weekly.South Africa is deporting an average of 3,900 illegal Zimbabwean migrants every week, the International Organization for Migration says...
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Malawi: Mace trade value grows to 31 million
27 June 2007, source: The Daily TImes
URL: http://www.dailytimes.bppmw.com/article.asp?ArticleID=5287
Lilongwe: The objective of the Malawi Agriculture Commodity Exchange (Mace) of linking agro-sellers with buyers is paying off as the organisation has recorded an increase of 31 million in its trade value from 20,000 in 2004 when Mace was established.This was disclosed Wednesday in Lilongwe by board chairperson for Initiative for Development and Equity in African Agriculture (Ideaa) Malawi and Mace George Kanyama Phiri in an interview during a daylong workshop for Mace stakeholders in Lilongwe...
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Budget crushed for giving agriculture `fourth` priority
27 June 2007, source: IPP
URL: http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2007/06/23/93063.html
Dar es Salaam: Stakeholders in agricultural sector have said the 2007/8 budget has largely ignored agriculture by according it `fourth` funding priority. The claim was made last by Dr.Timoth Nyoni, a senior researcher at the Economic Research Bureau (ERB) of Dar university at a post budget discussion forum sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF)...
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Cautious optimism as stakeholders end meeting on agriculture
27 June 2007, source: Africa News
URL: http://www.africa-interactive.net/index.php?PageID=5001
There is cautious optimism for agriculture in West and Central Africa as players in the sector ended two days of deliberations on Friday to boost production and end poverty. "Yes, the meeting was successful. There was commitment on the part of delegates," Dr Emmanuel Owusu-Bennoah, President of West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (WECRAD), told PANA after the meeting...
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Zambia to enact cotton law
27 June 2007, source: Xinhua
URL: http://english.people.com.cn/200706/24/eng20070624_387147.html
Lusaka: Zambia will enact cotton law by 2007/2008 farming season to stop illegal buying of cotton by ginners who do not finance the cotton farmers, Zambia Daily Mail reported Saturday. The illegal buying of cotton is hampering the industry, Zambian Agriculture Minister Ben Kapita was quoted as saying by the daily...
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Angola: Agriculture Deputy Minister in Huambo Province
27 June 2007, source: Angola Press Agency
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200706260630.html
Huambo: The deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Filomena Delgado began this Tuesday a work visit to the central Huambo province, in order to, among other issues, get acquainted with the functioning of the sector in this region. During a four-day visit, Filomena Delgado will meet with the provincial governor of Huambo, António Paulo Kassoma, as well as visit the Agronomical Research and Veterinary Institutes, situated in Chianga and Santo António localities, respectively...
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"The most fundamental human right is the right to food"
27 June 2007, source: FAO
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200706260855.html
Strasbourg: Taking up the invitation of the President of the Council of Europe, René Van der Linden, FAO Director-General Dr. Jacques Diouf yesterday urged Europe's parliamentarians to meet the challenge of the fight against hunger and ensure to the most deprived - mainly the rural - decent living conditions...
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Agreement signed on co-management of Gorongosa National Park
27 June 2007, source: Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200806251015.html
Gorongosa: The Mozambican Ministry of Tourism on Tuesday signed an agreement with the US not-for-profit organisation, the Geoffrey Carr Foundation, on the co-management of the jewel in Mozambique's wild life crown, the Gorongosa National Park (PNG), in the central province of Sofala. After witnessing the ceremony, held in the park itself, President Armando Guebuza declared "this act expresses our commitment to make the conservation areas vectors in the struggle against poverty and for development"...
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