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MALAWI: Turning tubers into delicious crisps
14 February 2011, source: Africa news
URL: http://www.africanews.com/site/list_message/33301
Ask anyone about the products Ntcheu district which is about 160 Km from Malawi's capital, Lilongwe is famous for and you will be told that this district also sharing common boundary with Malawi's neighbor, Mozambique, is popular due to Irish potatoes production.
But taking advantage of illiteracy levels among the Irish potato growers and the nutritious tubers’ abundance in Ntcheu’s Trading Centres, buyers from all walks of life more often exploit the farmers through offering them low prices for their produce on the market...
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Is it easy to grow what is good for you?
14 February 2011, source: IRIN news
URL: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=91907
The debates at the three-day International Conference on Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health in New Delhi were peppered with phrases like “think multi-sectorally”, “inter-sectorally”, and “break down the silos”. Participants pointed out that “nutrition and agriculture talk to each other, and so do nutrition and health”, but “health has never told agriculture what it needs,” because the links between the three sectors seemed to have broken down...
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Pricing of water should reflect infrastructure costs
14 February 2011, source: Engineering News
URL: http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/pricing-of-water-should-reflect-infrastructure-costs-2011-02-14
Infrastructure degradation, water inefficiency, backlogs in providing access to basic water services, wastage and problems such as acid mine drainage were exacerbating water scarcity in South Africa, and would pose binding constraints on the economy, said Nedbank chief economist Dennis Dykes.
Speaking at the inaugural South African Water and Energy forum in Sandton, he said that pricing policies over the medium and long term would need to come into play, and would need to be reflected in integrated national plans...
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Nigeria: Fashola Tasks Experts as Third Lagos Climate Change Summit Ends
10 February 2011, source: AllAfrica.com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/201102100369.html
AS the three-day climate change summit organized by the Lagos State Government ends today, Governor Babatunde Fashola has called on experts to use the opportunity in developing workable strategies that can unlock the earth from the challenges of climate change on planet earth.
Presenting his Keynote address, earlier on the first day, he said global news agencies late last year made it clear that, "one-fifth of world's plants are at risk of extinction as many plants and animals are victims of habitat loss characterized by clearing of forests for industries, residential and commercial activities...
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African Agriculture Partners Focus on Mitigating Rise in Food Prices, Supporting Farmers
03 February 2011, source: The World Bank Group
URL: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22823303~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html
The rise in food prices in Africa and elsewhere around the world is not as dire today as it was during the 2007-2008 crisis, a panel of key partners funding African agriculture concluded on the sidelines of the African Union summit. Today, the fundamentals of the global food supply remain sound but a lack of transparency on existing supplies has allowed speculators to use food as a commodity to make money by driving up the price for consumers...
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Africa: Farmers Are Key to Climate Change But Poor Policy is Locking Them Out
31 January 2011, source: AllAfrica.com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/201101311487.html
Nairobi — Agricultural productivity across Africa has plummeted greatly as a result of climate change, pointing to future food crises on the continent.
According to the Worldwatch Institute, a New York-based environment research organisation, there is an urgent need for sweeping policy changes on the continent to combat worsening weather patterns...
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Miners have 'wait-and-see' approach to climate change
31 January 2011, source: miningweekly.com
URL: http://www.miningweekly.com/article/global-miners-adopt-wait-and-see-approach-to-climate-actions-survey-2011-01-31
The global mining sector is largely adopting a “wait-and-see” approach to climate change actions, with only a few companies implementing sustainability measures while others cite the lack of a business case to introduce any response, a KPMG survey has found.
But in South Africa, the situation was said to be quite different, as the local mining industry was viewed as more diverse and mature, with a growing awareness of the impacts of climate change in the local economy...
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Davos: Ban challenges EU, US and Big Business to lead climate fight
31 January 2011, source: businessGreen
URL: http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2013395/davos-ban-challenges-eu-business-lead-climate-fight
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has demanded that the US and Europe lead efforts to tackle climate change rather than wait for others to act.
Speaking on the day the UN confirmed reports that extra climate talks would take place in the run up to the main climate change summit in South Africa at the end of the year, Ban told the World Economic Forum summit in Davos that those who had led the industrial revolution had a moral and political responsibility to lead the development of a low carbon economy...
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Nigeria: How Govt is Investing in Low Carbon Economy
30 January 2011, source: AllAfrica.com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/201101311005.html
President Goodluck Jonathan emphasises in this piece that the thrust of the Federal Government policies on climate change and evolving low-carbon economy is to promote better livelihood of the citizenry, who calls on to buy into the programmes. He also seeks collaboration among the tiers of government
The issue of global warming is gaining importance and significant attention globally today due to its potential impacts on the environment and socio-economic well-being of people...
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Frequency of East African Droughts Increasing
29 January 2011, source: Softpedia
URL: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Frequency-of-East-African-Droughts-Increasing-181358.shtml
For the past two decades or so, the eastern parts of the African continent have experienced numerous droughts, that succeeded one another faster and faster. According to a new scientific report, the trend is about to hold true for the foreseeable future as well. Investigators say that global warming and temperature rise are directly linked to this phenomenon, which was forecast by climate experts to whoever would listen for many years...
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Conference to focus on SA's water and energy security challenges
29 January 2011, source: saDailynews24
URL: http://sadailynews24.com/conference-to-focus-on-sa-rsquo-s-water-and-energy-security-challenges-850942.htm
The inaugural South African Water and Energy Forum (Sawef 2011) will seek to understand the nature of South Africa’s water challenge and how climate change could impact on the country’s future water and energy security.
This two-day event, scheduled for February 14 and 15, is being organised by Gleason Publica- tions and TouchStone Resources and will be held at the Sandton Sun...
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World leaders talk climate change at economic summit
28 January 2011, source: The Hill
URL: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/140909-world-leaders-talk-climate-change-at-economic-summit
There's been a lot of climate change talk at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week and much of it has centered on the United States.
Noting the President Obama did not specifically mention climate change in his State of the Union address this week, the two world leaders hosting the forum called on the United States Thursday to take action on climate change...
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Worldwatch Institute Convenes 15th Annual State of the World Symposium in Washington, D.C.
19 January 2011, source: CommonDreams.org
URL: http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/01/19-14
WASHINGTON - Worldwatch Institute's 15th Annual State of the World Symposium, convened today, brought together leading thinkers for a targeted dialogue focused on agricultural development, hunger, and poverty alleviation. The symposium occurred in conjunction with the release of Worldwatch's flagship publication, State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet,which outlines 15 proven, environmentally sustainable prescriptions for alleviating hunger and poverty...
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World hunger best cured by small-scale agriculture: report
13 January 2011, source: guardian.co.uk
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/13/world-hunger-small-scale-agriculture
The key to alleviating world hunger, poverty and combating climate change may lie in fresh, small-scale approaches to agriculture, according to a report from the Worldwatch Institute.
The US-based institute's annual State of the World report, published yesterday, calls for a move away from industrial agriculture and discusses small-scale initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa that work towards poverty and hunger relief in an environmentally sustainable way...
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Key 2011 dates for carbon market
31 December 2010, source: ICIS Heren
URL: http://www.icis.com/heren/articles/2010/12/31/9422644/emissions/edcm/key-2011-dates-for-carbon-market.html
January
13 January: UK to auction 4.4m EU allowances (EUAs).
21 January: Planned vote in the European Commission's climate committee on the proposal for quality restrictions on certified emission reductions (CERs) from certain industrial gas projects.
February
2 February: The Commission closes its consultation on the review of the EU's market in financial instruments directive (MiFID), which could change the way commodity derivatives are handled...
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