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Malawi: Tobacco industry going up in smoke
03 April 2007, source: IPS
URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37170
Blantyre: Tobacco prices and production levels are dropping amid pressure from the anti-smoking lobby and the general downturn in agricultural produce markets. But Malawi has still not made adequate progress in promoting crops to replace its primary foreign exchange earner. Green gold is the term that Malawians use for the country's tobacco...
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Namibia: Govt to allow more sheep exports to SA
03 April 2007, source: The Namibian
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200703300439.html
Windhoek: The Ministry of Agriculture has temporarily back-pedalled on its policy to have more sheep slaughtered locally and fewer exported to South Africa. This came after the private sector urged the Ministry to change the existing export quota over the next few weeks due to a pending drought and bottlenecks occurring at abattoirs...
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Zimbabwe: The future of agriculture
03 April 2007, source: Financial Gazette
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200703290791.html
Harare: Mounting evidence that we are about to suffer another massive food shortage and that the costs of importing the shortfall have doubled invites us to focus our attention on an undeniable fact: we have never needed expertise in the farming sector as much as we need it now. Another fact is that the quickest way to start a recovery process that will ease all of the country's economic problems will be to rebuild the foundations of commercial agriculture...
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Angola: FAO runs land managing programme
03 April 2007, source: Angola Press Agency
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200703280849.html
Huambo: A programme aimed at supporting government institutions managing with the promotion of equitable rural development was launched Wednesday in Huambo city (centre) by United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The three-year project will be implemented in the provinces of Huambo, Huíla and Benguela to build up technical capacity of Government institutions in the process of natural resources management and suppor the participation in the domain of tenure and running of land in those regions...
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When more is not enough
03 April 2007, source: IMF
URL: http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2007/031707.htm
Cape Town: Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you very much for this opportunity to speak on aid effectiveness at the Annual Conference of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank. This session brings together a critical topic-aid effectiveness-and a critical audience-parliamentarians. Let me speak briefly about why it is so important that aid be effective, what donors and the Fund are doing and can do to help, and especially what parliamentarians need to do...
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Nepad agriculture programmes hit $1.5bn investments
02 April 2007, source: The New Times
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200703300649.html
Kigali: Over US$1.5bn investments have already been identified under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). Addressing over three hundred agriculture experts and stakeholders attending the CAADP pioneer round table yesterday, the COMESA Assistant Secretary General for programmes, Sindiso Ngwenya underscored the bloc's agriculture trade portfolio accounts for 40%, following the manufacturing sector that accounts for 45%...
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Development, poverty eradication . . . The Pampaida example
02 April 2007, source: This Day
URL: http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=74465&printer_friendly=1
In Pampaida, a remote village in Kaduna State, the UNDP and other foreign partners have proved that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are attainable if there is the political will and commitment. Reuben Buhari writes on the community’s testimonies that the chains of poverty could actually be broken with determinationThe belief that rural dwellers could lead better lives and break the chains of poverty with low-cost and well-targeted investments is gradually turning to reality in an obscure and hitherto, inaccessible village in Kaduna State...
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The agony women farmers go through
02 April 2007, source: The New Times
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200703290603.html
Kigali: It is very surprising that 90 percent of farmers in the Africa are women yet only a small percentage of those women are able to enjoy the fruits of their sweat. All what a lot of women farmers reap is agony despite dedicating all their energies to work in the gardens. Listening to the sad tales of women who attended the first ever Women Farmers Conference in Liwonde recently, one would picture the exploitation that women go through...
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Zambia seeks farm sector investment
02 April 2007, source: Financial Express
URL: http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=159522
Kolkata: The Zambian government is keen to attract Indian investment for commercial agriculture and is ready to give as much as 25,000 hectares or 250 sqkm on a 99-year lease to a single investor for cultivating rice, wheat, maize, cotton and jathropha. Keli Walubita, the Zambian high commissioner in India, said Zambia, till recently an importer of food grains, has started exporting the same to its neighbouring countries--Congo, Tanzania, Malawi Mozambique and Zimbabwe...
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Kenya: Roll up your sleeves and save sugar sector
30 March 2007, source: The Standard
URL: http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news_s.php?articleid=1143966601
Nairobi: Sugar farmers have every reason to be worried over the expiry of the special Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) protection early next year. Under this, the sugar industry is protected from the impact of cheaper sugar from the Comesa countries. Under the Comesa protocol, members are allowed to export sugar to Kenya duty free...
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Mozambique aims to lead 'green revolution'
30 March 2007, source: SciDev.Net
URL: http://www.scidev.net/gateways/index.cfm?fuseaction=readitem&rgwid=4&item=News&itemid=3513&language=1
Maputo: Mozambique aims to lead a green revolution in sub-Saharan Africa by using science to improve crop varieties, and by boosting innovation. Opening the conference Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops in Maputo, Mozambique, yesterday (26 March), Mozambique's Minister of Science and Technology declared that a green revolution is needed for development in the region...
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Food, water security threatened by warming, UN panel chief says
30 March 2007, source: Bloomberg.com
URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aMDOzA81PRPg&refer=latin_america
London: The loss of food and water security is one of the most immediate threats posed by global warming, the head of a United Nations panel said before publication of the most detailed report ever on the subject. The greatest risks include ``irreversible'' and ``abrupt'' changes such as the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and an interruption of the ocean circulation that drives the Gulf Stream, Rajendra Pachauri, who leads the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said late yesterday in an interview from New Delhi...
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How climate change may alter SA life
30 March 2007, source: Dispatch
URL: http://www.dispatch.co.za/2007/03/28/SouthAfrica/cports.html
East London: South Africa’s ports could lose two-thirds of their traffic as melting ice caps open up new shipping channels. The impacts of changing environments will be felt far from where the events occur, said Professor Bruce Hewitson, in the Sasol SciFest’s keynote address...
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South Africa: Farmers voice concern over biofuels plan
30 March 2007, source: Engineering News
URL: http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/print_version.php?a_id=106497
Farmer organisations and rural communities from four of the country’s nine provinces have expressed their “extreme disquiet and consternation” with the State’s draft biofuels strategy, claiming that the consultation process was flawed.In a statement, distributed by the African Centre for Biosafety on Thursday, the communities and organisations claimed that they have not been properly informed and consulted about the strategy, which is open for public comment until the end of this week...
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Tanzania: Council calls for agricultural bank
29 March 2007, source: Daily News
URL: http://www.dailynews-tsn.com/page.php?id=6203
The Agricultural Council of Tanzania (ACT) has called for the establishment of an agricultural bank to provide loans to agricultural sector, claiming that the lending in the sector was largely sidelined by the existing financial institutions. A statement issued yesterday by the Executive Director of ACT, Mr Janet Bitegeko, said establishment of the bank would help poor farmers to extricate themselves from the poverty cycles through bank loans...
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