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  • Tshwane gives R2m boost to farmer's citrus project

    13 July 2007, source: BuaNews
    URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200707110557.html

    Pretoria:  The Winterveld Citrus Project, north of Pretoria, is to receive a R2 million financial boost from the City of Tshwane. The financial aid, in the form of performance-based grants, intends to enhance the production capacity of farmers that have been in citrus farming for five years. Currently, the produce in this project is largely consumed by the local markets...
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  • Kenya: How to turn arid lands into green baskets

    13 July 2007, source: East African Standard
    URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200707110930.html

    Nairobi: A vision without work is an illusion, while work without vision is confusion. Kenya Vision 2030 envisages a competitive and prosperous nation with high quality of life. Per capita ranking should rise to be among the five highest in Africa, eliminating absolute poverty and building on equitable and just society...
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  • Mozambique 'has biofuel potential'

    13 July 2007, source: News24
    URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2145822,00.html

    Maputo: Mozambique has the potential to produce more than 21 million litres of ethanol, and a further 40 million litres of bio-diesel, according to a study presented by the ministries of agriculture and energy. Energy minister Salvador Namburete told a seminar on bio-fuels that more than five million hectares of land would be used in the production of crops that would produce bio-diesel fuels...
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  • Tanzania: Govt. urged to earmark organic farming zones

    12 July 2007, source: IPP Media
    URL: http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2007/07/10/94136.html

    Dar es Salaam: Tanzania`s organic farming community has asked the government to put in place a policy and law that would prohibit the use of industrial fertilizers in areas where organic farming is intensively carried out. Organic farmers have claimed that they are facing the danger of being crowded out of the lucrative world market as their counterparts using chemical fertilizers are seemingly approaching or worst get mixed-up with their zones...
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  • Benguela: seminar on management of cattle-breeding projects

    12 July 2007, source: Angola Press Agency
    URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200707100966.html

    Benguela:   A seminar on the management of farming and industrial projects was opened this Tuesday, in the southern Benguela province, aimed at developing human and business potentials, through entrepreneurship. The event that also aims at strengthening the capacity of producers and cattle-raising firms in this region of the country is part of an upgrading course that the provincial government of Benguela plans to organise locally...
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  • Mozambique: Agreement with Chinese university

    12 July 2007, source: AIM
    URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200707100954.html

    Maputo:  A higher school of rural development, offering university degrees, will begin operating next year in the southern Mozambican province of Inhambane, under a memorandum of understanding signed in Maputo on Tuesday between the country's oldest university, the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), and the Sichuan Agricultural University of China...
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  • South Africa: Govt committed to assist emerging farmers

    12 July 2007, source: BuaNews
    URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200707100958.html

    Free State:   Government remains committed to assist and mentor small and emerging farmers during the post-settlement phase of land restitution, said Free State Premier Beatrice Marshoff. Speaking at the Free State Agriculture Annual Congress on Monday, Ms Marshoff said she was committed to ensuring there was an environment which was conducive to equitable access and participation in the agricultural sector...
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  • Africa: Peace and education top pastoralists' concerns

    12 July 2007, source: Reuters AlertNet
    URL: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/b83791ac9bf6768208a54c7dbb497fa4.htm

    Isiolo:  Pastoralists across Africa want peace and for their children to access education suited to their nomadic lifestyles, representatives of pastoral communities said on 9 July in Isiolo. "The issue of the education curriculum is important to understanding pastoralism; imagine taking a lot of time to teach a child in Mandera [northern Kenya] how to plant beans when that child could be taught how to tan leather, given that it is the available resource," Ali Wario, Kenya's assistant minister for special programmes in the office of the president, said...
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  • World Bank provides $100 million for Mozambican roads

    12 July 2007, source: The Guardian
    URL: http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6766660,00.html

    Maputo:  The World Bank agreed on Monday to give Mozambique $100 million in credit to help upgrade its road network, most of which was damaged and neglected during a 17-year civil war that ended in 1992. Mozambique will be exempt from interest and have 40 years to pay back the funds to the World Bank's International Development Association, said Michael Baxter, the Bank's director for Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe...
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  • Roll on the green revolution for Africa

    11 July 2007, source: Daily Times
    URL: http://www.dailytimes.bppmw.com/article.asp?ArticleID=5573

    Nearly half a century after a British Prime Minister described a "Wind of Change" blowing across the African Continent, a new wind may be gathering over Africa. The change Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke of was Africa's passage from colonialist rule to political independence. The new wind of change concerns Africa's economic empowerment...
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  • Kenya leads in Comesa milk output

    11 July 2007, source: East African Standard
    URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200707091733.html

    Nairobi:   Kenya's annual milk production has hit the four billion litres mark, ranking the country as the leading producer in the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) region. Egypt and Ethiopia are ranked second and third, with a production of 1.9 billion and 1.4 billion litres...
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  • Uganda: Local farmers losing out to foreign suppliers

    11 July 2007, source: The Monitor
    URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200707091700.html

    Kampala:  Ugandan farmers are missing out on a huge market for fresh produce each month because they are not selling to supermarkets like Uchumi and Shoprite. Supermarkets are one of the fastest expanding businesses in East Africa, with South Africa's Shoprite leading the pack in Uganda. According to business executives, supermarkets in Uganda are set to double in number in the next two years as both Shoprite and Uchumi plan to open new stores...
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  • Colin Bradford: From dominance to trust

    11 July 2007, source: The Guardian
    URL: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/colin_bradford/2007/07/from_dominance_to_trust.html

    Fifty years ago the United States was the pre-eminent world power and had legitimacy as a global leader because of its role in the second world war and its contribution to the creation of the postwar institutional order composed of the United Nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The west was the prevailing culture and seen in its own eyes to be a universal civilisation capable of embracing and expressing all humanity...
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  • R1,3bn sugar expansions in Mozambique

    11 July 2007, source: Engineering News
    URL: http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article.php?a_id=111363

    Expansions to Tongaat Hulett‘s Xinavane and Mafambisse sugar mills in Mozambique are progressing significantly, Ton-gaat Hulett CEO Peter Staude tells Engineering News in an exclusive interview.Capital totalling R1,3-billion was allocated to expanding both sugar and cane-growing activities at Mozambique mills earlier this year...
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  • Zimbabwe: State to boost agriculture sector

    11 July 2007, source: The Herald
    URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200707091003.html

    Harare: Government is prepared to work with all stakeholders in the development of the agriculture sector so as to restore Zimbabwe's competitive advantage on the international market, a senior Government official has said. Speaking at the two-day National Dairy Symposium last week, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Mr David Chapfika, said ministry would leave no stone unturned to remove all impediments to the successful implementation of the National Agriculture Policy, which will see the increase of production in the both the dairy and beef sector...
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