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Putting sunshine in your taps
07 July 2007, source: IPS
URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=38424
Cape Town: Solar water heaters offer people the chance to save money, increase the security of the local and national energy supply -- and cut down on greenhouse emissions said to cause climate change. Yet, roofs throughout South Africa are noticeably bare.According to research published this year by Sustainable Energy Africa, a non-governmental organisation based in the South African coastal city of Cape Town, less than one percent of households have solar water heaters (SWHs) -- even though South Africa is bathed in sunshine...
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AIDS harms the environment
07 July 2007, source: Nature.Com
URL: http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070702/pf/070702-10_pf.html
Port Elizabeth: The high level of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa is taking its toll on the landscape, say conservationists. The disease is acting on communities in a multitude of ways. Some game wardens and other conservation workers have died, while others are missing work to care for their loved ones...
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Biofuel demand to push up food prices
07 July 2007, source: The Guardian
URL: http://environment.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2118876,00.html
Food prices will rise in the next 10 years as nearly twice as much sugar cane, maize and oilseed rape is grown to fuel cars, and people in rapidly developing countries adopt meat-based diets, says the UN in its annual assessment of farming trends. The move to "agrofuels", which are expected to marginally lower climate change emissions and reduce US and European oil dependency, is being led by the US, Brazil, Europe and China...
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Global warming and your wallet
07 July 2007, source: New York Times
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/opinion/06fri1.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
New York: At long last, Congress is showing a willingness to confront global warming. The Senate's recent approval of higher fuel economy standards is a constructive step and key lawmakers are promising comprehensive legislation this year that will, for the first time, limit the emission of greenhouse gases...
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South Africa: Free-riders drag down the horse
06 July 2007, source: Business Day
URL: http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/opinion.aspx?ID=BD4A508234
Johannesburg: As next year's deadline for the settlement of outstanding land claims approaches, the pace of land transfer accelerates across SA . Whether or not the deadline is met, there are signs that, far from transforming the livelihoods of dispossessed rural communities, the restitution process is resulting in enterprise failure, land degradation and deep disillusionment among its intended beneficiaries...
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Minister rejects peer review criticism on land reform
06 July 2007, source: SAPA/Business Day
URL: http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A508378
Pretoria: Public Service Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi has dismissed suggestions that the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) panel on SA felt the country had not done enough in the area of land reform. SA's peer-review report was presented by President Thabo Mbeki to the African Union summit in Ghana on Monday...
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Africa’s farmers want to play their part in Nepad's CAADP
06 July 2007, source: Nepad Dialogue, Issue 186
URL: http://www.triomedia.co.za/work/nepad/newsletters/2007/issue186_29Jun2007.html
Midrand: African Governments through the Maputo Declaration in July 2003 made agriculture a top priority, leading to NEPAD developing an agricultural policy framework -- the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Program (CAADP) -- aimed at increasing the performance of agriculture to grow at more than 6% per annum...
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Africa must capitalise on coffee demand surge
06 July 2007, source: Mail and Guardian
URL: http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=313079&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/
Kampala: Surging demand for African coffee is a unique opportunity for producers, but they must not let quality slip or assume processing is the best way to capitalise on it, a coffee official said on Thursday. East African Fine Coffees Association director Philip Gitao told Reuters Africa's market has come of age...
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Growing world hunger must be tackled by farming revolution: UN
06 July 2007, source: IC Publications
URL: http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=africa&item=070704164305.2xbiv16q.php
United Nations agencies on Wednesday warned that hunger was growing in the world and called for a "green" farming revolution in Africa. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said the international community was far from being on target to eradicate hunger by 2015, about halfway through the campaign for the UN Millennium Development Goals launched in 2000...
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Nile Perch exports fall as consumer tastes change
06 July 2007, source: Business Daily Africa
URL: http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1778&Itemid=5811
Kenya and other Lake Victoria fishing nations could be forced to reduce dependency on the Nile Perch for foreign exchange earnings following a consumer shift to other species in key EU markets.A latest market report for July by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) showed that EU imports of Nile Perch fillets have been on a drop, continuing on a trend that was set two years ago...
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Zimbabwe to craft new agricultural policy
06 July 2007, source: People's Daily Online
URL: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/6205497.html#
Harare: The Zimbabwean government is crafting a new national agricultural policy framework to spearhead the recovery of the farming sector and consolidate the gains of the land reform program, The Chronicle reported on Tuesday.Speaking in an interview at the National Cattle Herd Rebuilding Workshop in Bulawayo, the Minister of Agriculture Rugare Gumbo said the new policy framework would give impetus to the recovery of agriculture and drive the ministry's operations...
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South Africa: AgriBEE steering committee finalises Sector Transformation Charter
06 July 2007, source: GCIS
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2007/07070510151001.htm
Pretoria: The AgriBEE Steering Committee (SC) has met today to iron out outstanding matters in the Charter document that were pointed out by the Minister of Trade and Industry before gazetting. The meeting agreed on the following issues and on how to take them forward. 1. In the interim, the small medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) will be evaluated on R5 million threshold per annum subject to changes as and when research and sub sector inputs information are made available2...
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South Africa: Marine aquaculture draft policy
05 July 2007, source: GCIS
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2007/07070311151002.htm
Pretoria: "Our commitment to sustainable development, coupled with international experience and best practice in the marine aquaculture sector has led us to where we are today in the development of this policy for the South African economy." Pam Yako, the Director-General (DG) of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism said, today, when she officially opened a stakeholder dialogue on the development of the marine aquaculture policy for South Africa, in Port Alfred...
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Going Fishing - farmers explore "yet to be tapped" industry
05 July 2007, source: New Times
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200707021380.html
Kigali: Fish farming, very popular in the 80's and early 90's, is making a comeback, according to a business expert. Bosco Kabagambe, the Entrepreneurship and Business Growth Director at Rwanda Private Sector (RPS), says fish farming has many attractive qualities. For example, Kabagambe says fish are a nutritious source of protein...
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Agrofuels - Towards a reality check in nine key areas
05 July 2007, source: Transnational Institute
URL: http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?&act_id=17069
Executive summary: The rush for ‘biofuels' is already causing serious damage. Far from being sustainable, the spread of what are more accurately called ‘agrofuels' - liquid fuels produced from biomass grown in large-scale monocultures - is compromising biodiversity and fuelling human rights violations...
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