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Climate Change highlights need for Women to take Greater Role in Forest Management, say experts
06 March 2011, source: The Morung Express
URL: http://www.morungexpress.com/analysis/63137.html
Women are the main users of forests in developing countries – gathering food and firewood – but they continue to be sidelined in how the forests are managed despite years of efforts to mainstream their involvement, experts said ahead of International Women's Day on March 8.Research shows that greater involvement of women in forest management usuall y improves the condition and sustainability of the forests...
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Price and weather forecasting needed in dealing with food security in Africa
05 March 2011, source: Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC)
URL: http://www.kbc.co.ke/news.asp?nid=69222
The Alliance for Commodity Trade for Eastern and Southern Africa (ACTESA) has called for improvement of long-range weather and price forecasting and monitoring in eastern and southern Africa in order to deal with the challenge of food security in the region. ACTESA notes that agricultural production being a seasonal activity, food price swings cannot be eliminated but, the severity of the price swings can be moderated if markets can be used better...
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Economy: Nigeria, eleven others to benefit from World Bank assisted projects
04 March 2011, source: Afrique en ligne
URL: http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/economy:-nigeria,-eleven-others-to-benefit-from-world-bank-assisted-projects-201103053668.html
Nigeria - The World Bank has approved Nigeria and 11 other West Africa Countries to benefit from its assisted regional agricultural project, West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP) worth $300 million. The Countries are Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo, Benin, Gambia and Niger...
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UK unveils 1.5trn/- aid for Tanzania
03 March 2011, source: ippmedia.com
URL: http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=26627
To cover four years: aims to wean country off aid
The United Kingdom (UK) yesterday unveiled its new 1.5 trn/- aid package for Tanzania for the next four years, to support the country’s development projects.
“UK’s overarching objective is to support Tanzania to reduce the poverty of its people and become independent from aid,” said Andrew Mitchell, the UK Secretary of State who heads the Department for International Development (DFID) in his plan...
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A Devastating Perfect Storm - Global Food Prices Continue to Rise
03 March 2011, source: Jake Caldwell - www.americanprogress.org
URL: http://www.americanprogress.org
Global food prices increased for the eighth consecutive month in a row, according to a report released today by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, soaring to record levels last month—with devastating consequences for the world’s poor. Food prices are on the rise due to growing populations and rising incomes across much of the developing world alongside tight supplies, high oil prices, and stockpiling of imports as the main factors, although profound uncertainty regarding future harvests due to global warming is also a clear catalyst...
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Zambia: First Lady Joins Women in Agricultural Production
02 March 2011, source: Miriam Zimba - Zambia Post
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Empirical evidence indicates that rural women are the backbone of subsistence agriculture. This assertion is clear in the hinterland where women practically contribute more than 50 percent to food production and hence their key role in fending for their families. Thus it is apparent that given added impetus in terms of input assistance, women could be a reliable human resource factor in agriculture...
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Formalising SMEs will reduce lending rates - AfDB
25 February 2011, source: The Post Online
URL: http://www.postzambia.com/post-read_article.php?articleId=18510
The African Development Bank says formalising the small and medium enterprises will drastically reduce lending rates.According to latest figures, the SME sector boasts 90 per cent of Zambia’s commerce.In an interview, AfDB resident representative Dr Freddie Kwesiga said when SMEs, who operate informally, are formalised, the number of people seeking finance will increase which will result in cost sharing that will reduce the rate of lending...
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Freedom From Hunger: Lessons From Egypt
24 February 2011, source: The Huffington Post
URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-van-ameringen/freedom-from-hunger-lesso_b_827734.html
Remarking on unrest across the Middle East and Northern Africa, President Obama recently emphasized the universal "hunger for freedom" that has empowered the Arab street and seized the attention of the world. Looking at the triggers of the unrest and the needs for sustaining the progress that's been made, it would be equally important for President Obama and other global leaders to examine the role of "freedom from hunger...
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A prospect of plenty: For the first time in history, the whole of mankind may get enough to eat
24 February 2011, source: The Economist
URL: http://www.economist.com/node/18200642
FOR 10,000 years farmers have produced food for mankind. That has been the basis of life. “When tillage begins,” wrote Daniel Webster, “other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilisation.”
This special report has argued that over the next 40 years farmers will find it harder to produce enough for everyone because of constraints on land, water and fertilisers...
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Africa can feed the world, Kofi Annan tells IFAD Governing Council
19 February 2011, source: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
URL: http://www.ifad.org/media/press/2011/9.htm
IFAD President Nwanze urges policy leaders from 167 Member States to focus on young people to build vibrant rural economies
Rome – Africa has the land and the people to develop an agricultural system that can provide enough surplus to ensure global food security in decades to come, Kofi Annan, Chairman of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), said this morning at the annual meeting of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)...
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Innovation and energy of young people in rural areas key to national economic growth and food security
19 February 2011, source: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
URL: http://www.ifad.org/media/press/2011/10.htm
IFAD President issues Call to Action to Member States to “invest political, financial and human capital” in rural development
Rome – Investing in the skills and talents of young rural women and men in developing countries is critical to the task of eradicating rural poverty and ensuring global food security, the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) told delegates to the Fund’s annual meeting, which opened this morning at its headquarters in Rome...
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The big switch
19 February 2011, source: newsUpdates.co.za
URL: http://newsupdates.co.za/the-big-switch-250837.htm
Is Renewable Energy a fantasy or the answer we've been searching for? PEDAL POWER: Safe bicycle lanes encourage people to ride, rather than drive Environmental think-tank Ecofys has just released a report in conjunction with the World Wide Fund for Nature SA that claims we can power the planet on 100% renewable energy by 2050...
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Green Africa at Meetings Africa
18 February 2011, source: Bizcommunity.com
URL: http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/40/56906.html
Meetings Africa 2011, which runs 21-23 February 2011 at the Sandton Convention Centre, is encouraging the meetings, incentives, conference and events/exhibitions (MICE) industry to include greening as part of its mandate, as the show itself demonstrates. Supporting this trend is the newly opened Dinokeng Project in Gauteng...
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After the Cancun climate summit: Will global action follow?
18 February 2011, source: Post online
URL: http://www.postonline.co.uk/post/analysis/2027323/post-europe-cancun-climate-summit-global-action-follow
At the recent United Nations’ climate conference in Cancun, nations came together to discuss environmental plans. David Bresch explains what happened in Cancun and what the new consensus means for the insurance industry.
The year 2010 was never likely to go down as a watershed year for action on climate change...
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National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund plants 45 000 trees In International Year of Forests
18 February 2011, source: Publicity Update
URL: http://www.publicityupdate.co.za/?IDStory=34458
Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA) has received a generous donation from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF) to support the distribution of 45 000 Trees for Homes in 2011, the International Year of Forests.
45 000 residents of low cost housing settlements across South Africa will benefit from this and over 900 residents of the beneficiary communities will receive training and stipends as community based educators going door to door to spread climate change and greening awareness...
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