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World Bank sees support for $250m forest fund
27 July 2007, source: Mail and Guardian
URL: http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleId=314770&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/
Sydney: A planned $250-million World Bank fund to encourage developing countries to stop deforestation in return for access to carbon credits has attracted strong international support, a senior official said on Tuesday.Forests are not included under the existing emissions reduction framework, the Kyoto Protocol, even though deforestation, especially in the tropics, contributes about 20% of man-made global carbon emissions -- about two billion tonnes of carbon per year...
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South Africa: Land policy to be discussed
27 July 2007, source: News24
URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2152588,00.html
Pretoria: A moratorium on foreign land ownership should be discussed as part of a bigger public debate rather than being implemented immediately, the cabinet decided on Tuesday. The cabinet had an ordinary meeting on Tuesday morning ahead of the mid-year cabinet lekgotla, government spokesperson Themba Maseko said...
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Poor maize crop could dent South Africa biofuel hopes
27 July 2007, source: Genetics News
URL: http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Genetics.aspx?infoId=15191
Two seasons ago, when a bumper harvest pushed South African maize prices to four-year lows, it seemed like a good idea to plough all that excess maize into biofuels -- energy tapped from crops like sugar and maize.But for the second year in a row, South Africa faces a season of slim pickings after a drought slashed maize production, raising doubts about how a country with such a poor farming climate can produce crops to meet the government's ambitious green energy targets...
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Stats SA plans major farm census
27 July 2007, source: IOL
URL: http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5018765
Pretoria: Statistics South Africa is to conduct a R30 million commercial agricultural census from about 60,000 farming units in the agricultural business sector, it announced on Tuesday."The agricultural sector remains one of the key contributors of economic growth in the country and the data collected will be effective in identifying areas of challenge within the farming fraternity," manager of Agricultural statistics Moses Mnyaka said...
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Coping with less rain
26 July 2007, source: Africa Renewal
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200707231861.html
Ouagadougou: Planting trees along a stone line to prevent soil erosion from heavy downpours of rain. The heat wave that started in March has not yet, two months later, given way to the first rainfall of the new farming season, except in a few isolated parts of Burkina Faso. Abel Raogo, a 60-year-old farmer in the village of Ipelcé, some 50 kilometres from the capital, has already finished sowing his fields...
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New rating poses threat to Kenya’s trade terms
26 July 2007, source: Business Daily Africa
URL: http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2089&Itemid=5813
Nairobi: Kenya's terms of trade in the international market may change for the worse following its recent removal from the list of the world's Least Developed Countries, it has emerged. With the UN report coming ahead of the expected arrival of an international rating agency Standard and Poors, consensus at Treasury is that the country looks set to emerge with a better rating compared with the B+ it got last year...
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Oniang'o sees urgent need for food biotechnology in Africa
26 July 2007, source: PRWeb
URL: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/7/prweb541826.htm
St. Louis: Twenty-five percent of the undernourished people in the developing world are located in sub-Saharan Africa; and according to FAO, approximately 35 percent of the population in 14 countries in the region are chronically undernourished. However, efforts to reduce hunger in this region have been hampered by a shortage of arable land, inadequate rainfall, low soil fertility and the devastating effects of plant pests and diseases...
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Haggling over Malawi's green gold
26 July 2007, source: BBC
URL: http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6906636.stm
Seeing a Malawian man actually running at full tilt is a rare thing. They are a relaxed nation and because most of the economy is agriculture-based, there's rarely a need to rush anywhere. But when it comes to the East African state's main cash crop, tobacco, the pace picks up quite a bit...
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The power to influence showers
25 July 2007, source: Science Now
URL: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/723/2
A new study has shown for the first time that humans have been altering rainfall patterns across various parts of the globe for the past century. The research could help scientists predict future rainfall patterns within geographic regions and allow nations to prepare better for changing weather.For more than 2 decades, the world's climate scientists have been building a case that the byproducts of human activity--particularly greenhouse gases--are warming the planet...
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Urgency needed to avert a humanitarian crisis
25 July 2007, source: Irin
URL: http://www.irinnews.org
Harare: An urgent call on Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF government and the international donor community to mobilise food aid to avert an impending crisis has been met with assurances by government that "no one will starve". "There is a general consensus that Zimbabwe's 2006/07 cereal production has to be complemented by imports of over one million mt [metric tonnes] if the country is to meet cereal requirements for the 2007/08 consumption year," said the latest overview of sub-Saharan food security by Famine Early Warning Systems (FEWS NET), published in June...
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Africa needs a common policy on pastoralism
25 July 2007, source: The East African
URL: http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/News/News2307072.htm
African countries will soon be required to embrace a common policy on pastoralism to reduce rural poverty and meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Faced with challenges such as climatic change and conflicts, agricultural experts in Africa are concerned that the survival of pastoralism as a livelihood will depend on a comprehensive livestock development policy designed to increase productivity...
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Iran-South Africa develop agricultural cooperation
25 July 2007, source: Islamic Republic News Agency
URL: http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-237/0707241193001803.htm
Iran's Ambassador to South Africa Mohammad Ali Qanezadeh discussed ways of increasing bilateral cooperation in the fields of agriculture with South African Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Mrs. Lulama Xingwana on Monday. In the meeting, the ambassador submitted Iran's Agriculture Minister's invitation to his South African counterpart to visit Iran...
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Farmers` organizations can support sustainable agriculture
24 July 2007, source: IPP Media
URL: http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2007/07/21/94851.html
Dar es Salam: In developing countries, no government has ever failed to meddle in agricultural development, with good or bad intentions. In Tanzania alone, we have come across so many state intervention actions into the farm sector, could be more frequently that one could imagine of any other country in Africa...
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What good is green if the poor go hungry?
24 July 2007, source: Globe and Mail
URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070720.wibreguly0720/BNStory/Business/columnists
Rome: Rome's obsession with food goes beyond the pizzerias and the trattorias that make it a gastronomical wonder. Appropriately, the city is also home to three United Nations food agencies whose job, ultimately, is to keep the undernourished fed. They wonder whether biofuel is an item that should be struck from the planet's menu...
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Africa must not suffer for actions of others
24 July 2007, source: Kenya Times
URL: http://www.timesnews.co.ke/20jul07/nwsstory/opinion.html
Nairobi: Even before the dust settles over the controversial "food miles" debate sparked by British supermarkets a few months ago, Kenya's booming horticultural industry faces yet another huddle from one of the most powerful lobby groups in the U.K.'s food industry, the Soil Association...
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