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Tobacco auction to phase out?
23 February 2007, source: Nation Online
URL: http://www.nationmalawi.com/articles.asp?articleID=20778
In a desperate bid to improve dwindling margins from the country’s number one forex earner—tobacco, and motivate growers to produce more, government on Saturday unveiled plans to try out the contract buying system of the leaf on a large scale to assess if the new system will offer better than the auction system...
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Climate change could bowl us over
23 February 2007, source: New Era/allAfrica
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200702220683.html
Windhoek: Climate change threatens to become one of the most significant and costly issues that may affect Namibia's development process. Although Namibia contributes little to greenhouse emissions, its arid environment, recurrent drought and desertification and fragile ecosystem make it one of the most vulnerable countries to the effects of climate change...
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Green Tower project could solve power shortage
23 February 2007, source: New Era/allAfrica
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200702200671.html
Windhoek: A one-day meeting that could see Nampower committing itself to the implementation of the Green Tower project regarded as the best solution to the anticipated severe power shortage in the country, took place in the capital last Friday. Attended by about 50 experts in the local energy sector - Germany and South Africa - this meeting served as a platform to discuss issues that would clearly indicate the viability of this project in Namibia...
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Western Cape ready to face challenges of climate change, conference learns
23 February 2007, source: The Herald
URL: http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/news/n18_23022007.htm
South Africa faces the prospect of severe effects from global warming and the Western Cape is likely to be the province most affected. This was revealed at a conference hosted by the Western Cape environmental affairs and development department in George yesterday.The conference heard that there was no longer any debate about whether South Africa would be affected by climate change...
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World Bank unveils US$340m support program for Malawi
20 February 2007, source: Nyasa Times
URL: http://www.nyasatimes.com/NATIONAL-NEWS/248.html
The World Bank has unveiled a four-year support program for Malawi through which the bank pledges to provide the country with 340 million U.S. dollars. The bank's local office announced in a statement issued on Thursday that the 2007-2010 support program for Malawi was designed to support the implementation of the country's new economic development blueprint, the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS)...
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Farmers suspicious of state's BEE study
20 February 2007, source: Business Day
URL: http://www.bday.org.za
Cape Town: Tensions within the agriculture sector appear to be heightening following the agriculture department's announcement that it intends to launch a baseline study of black empowerment. While the department said in an advertisement that the study would add information about what the final codes should look like, organised agriculture said it viewed the study with suspicion, indicating that it might be a situation where government "again makes one-sided decisions"...
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Renewable fuels will revolutionize agriculture, says U.S. official
20 February 2007, source: Canada.com
URL: http://www.canada.com
NAIROBI: Growing demand for clean fuels distilled from plants will likely revolutionize agriculture in both rich and poor countries, a top U.S. agriculture official said Monday during a trade mission to East Africa. Michael Yost, the head of the U.S. foreign agriculture service, said African and American farmers both stood to profit from the growing demand for grains that can be converted to ethanol or biodiesel, two clean burning substitutes for gasoline and normal diesel fuel...
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Final communique 24th conference of heads of state of Africa and France
19 February 2007, source: Tautona Times NO 5 2007
1. The 24th Conference of the Heads of State of Africa and France was held at the Palais des Festivals et de Congres in Cannes, on the 15th and 16th of February 2007, at the invitation of Mr. Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic. 2. Forty-nine delegations of African countries took part with France in the Conference, as well as the representatives of the United Nations, the African Union, the European Commission and the international Francophone Organization...
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Science,technology - an unexploited tool for development
19 February 2007, source: Times of Zambia
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200702120671.html
LUSAKA: Africa is one of the world's richest regions in terms of natural resources, yet the continent has derived little profit from the exploitation of its resources. The continent is endowed with vast mineral wealth, rivers, lakes and oceans and not least of all great agricultural potential...
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MOZAMBIQUE: Cash not food needed to help flood evacuees recovery, says NGO
19 February 2007, source: IRIN
URL: http://www.irinnews.org
JOHANNESBURG: As floods continue to displace thousands of Mozambicans in the central region, Save the Children UK has urged the humanitarian community to consider cash grants rather than food aid for long term recovery. "This is not to undermine the validity and importance of food aid interventions for people currently experiencing shortages, but to avoid dependency, to stimulate local markets, to give people the dignity of choice," said Chris McIvor, programme director of the child rights agency...
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World Economic Forum chair highlights continent
23 January 2007, source: BuaNews
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200801210942.html
Pretoria: Ahead of the annual World Economic Forum meeting, kicking off Wednesday, the current WEF chair has highlighted Africa's development as among the issues to be addressed at the five day event. This year, the world's political and financial leaders will convene in Davos, Switzerland for policy-influencing discussions around the theme "The Power of Collaborative Innovation...
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Three-quarters of GM farmers live in developing countries, but Africa is missing out
26 September 2006, source: Africa Harvest
Johannesburg: Of all the globe's farmers who plant biotech seeds, three-quarters live in the developing world. Yet none live in Africa, except for South Africa where the planting of biotech crops is rapidly approaching North American levels, Africa Harvest CEO, Dr. Florence Wambugu, told the Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference (ABIC) in Calgary, Canada, this week...
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Arab bank to help Africa fight food crisis
14 May 2005, source: Guardian
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7509077
Maputo: The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) said on Friday it will provide African farmers with financial assistance to help boost yields as the continent reels from rising global food prices. BADEA Director General Abdelaziz Khelef said the bank would help the world's poorest continent reduce food shortages...
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Kenya: The country should brace for a food crisis
08 December 2001, source: The Standard
URL: http://www.eastandard.net/news/?id=1143984769&cid=4
Nairobi: Kenya is facing one of its worst food crises due to skyrocketing prices of farm inputs. The cost of key farm inputs has gone up over the last few months, disrupting the supply of key commodities, including seeds, fertilisers and diesel. This has affected small and large-scale farmers alike...
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Africa's food shortage knows no bounds
08 December 2001, source: Globe and Mail
URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080423.WBwreguly20080423085316/WBStory/WBwreguly
The United Nations' food agencies in Rome are now openly warning that food shortages threaten famine in the poorest African countries, among them Burkina Faso, Niger and Senegal. But what about the wealthier African countries? Is all well there?For an answer, I asked my friend Yussuf Kajenje, a former journalist and father of three who lives in Tanzania, where he now works for one of the international food-development agencies...
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