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While Freedom from Hunger’s recent focus has not been on agricultural research and extension or on advocacy for policy change ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 09:39
Going forward, the company has maintained its positive outlook for FY 2008 and expects healthy growth in the agricultural and ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 08:47
A Green House laboratory within the premises of the Halhale National Institute of Agriculture on experimenting with different ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 08:18
Angolan Government has released Akz 2.2 billion (one Usd is Akz 70,00) this year to boost the 2008/2009 agricultural season in ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 08:01
Doubling Of Grants To UN Food Aid Agency Urged World Bank Group, DC - 29 minutes ago With Japanese support, the New Rices for ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 07:52
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) is helping poor farmers to boost their agricultural production in ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 07:33
A regional court in Namibia has ruled that the Zimbabwean government violated an interim order issued last December, which ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 07:18
...Cutting-edge agricultural technologies are necessary for raising farm productivity, and Japan has a lot to offer in this ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 07:13
Invest in agriculture , IFPRI advises African governments Africa Science News Service, Kenya - 1 hour ago Sound government ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 06:55
Economic Indicators: The GDP experienced an unforeseen growth in the last year of 12.8% mainly due to foreign investment, ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 06:24
RWE's Fri-el Green buys Congo palm farms for biofuel Reuters India, India - 2 hours ago Republic of Congo, an oil ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 06:09
“Wave energy could also provide substantial electricity up and down the European coast, as well as along the west coasts of ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 05:19
Western and Northern African countries, Burkina Faso and Egypt, have also began growing biotech crops this year after ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 05:11
Fisher says an irrigation tool holds the most potential to lift a family out of poverty, especially in sub-Saharan Africa , ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 04:59
The “conditionalities” of SAPs insisted on greater inclusion of national economies into the global market, tariffs protecting ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 04:00
The prior advances of the Green Revolution that bolstered world agriculture would be vulnerable to the lower temperatures and ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 03:29
The small village of Tombo on the Freetown peninsula is a centre of artisanal fishing in Sierra Leone, but its future and the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 02:14
Dr Omar Touray, the secretary of state for Foreign Affairs, on saturday commissioned a new fishing trawler for The Gambia, at a ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 02:13
Drought, conflict, hyperinflation, high food and fuel prices, the weakness of the Somali shilling and a succession of poor ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 01:56
S. African Standard Bank unit plans Zambia listing Reuters - 38 minutes ago By Shapi Shacinda LUSAKA, July 23 Reuters) - A ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 01:43
Recurrent outbreaks of the viral livestock disease peste des petits ruminants (PPR), which affects goats and sheep, are ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 01:41
An umbrella union has refuted claims of a nationwide strike today to demonstrate against surging food and fuel prices.
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 01:39
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal on Monday said it would present its findings in the matter of the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 01:39
Agricultural & Resource Economics, Oregon State University, USA Gabriel T. Csanady, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 01:38
The Councillor of the Kalahari Constituency in the Omaheke Region and Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Stephanus Mogotsi, has ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 01:06
In These Times Let Them Eat Free Markets In These Times, IL - 1 hour ago When world leaders met in June for a UN Food and ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 01:04
The House of Representatives will today commence Public Hearing on a bill seeking to regulate the practice of Animal Health and ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 12:37
Over 1000 farmers in Argungu Emirate penultimate Thursday, attempted to lynch the Kebbi State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 12:36
The urban poor in the Horn of Africa are the new face of hunger in a region where up to 14.6 million people now require ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 12:27
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has disclosed that the number of hungry people that increased by another 50 ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 12:06
Following the increased funding by the government to the National Agricultural Advisory Services to cover all the sub-counties ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 11:53
Originally futures contracts provided a fixed internal basis for agricultural producers. They could sell their products on ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 11:52
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has been commended for the various efforts it has been making to make ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 11:47
Minister of Agriculture in the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Alhaji Adamu Bello, has dismissed claim ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 11:47
JIGAWA State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASA) will embark on the construction of about 50,000 toilets in all ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 11:45
Consumers will have to dig deep into their pockets to have chicken and eggs on their menu as prices surge. The shortage of ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 11:44
South Africa is a wonderful place. Ask the thousands of Nigerians going to Jo’burg. Those already there may have a different ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 11:40
GOVERNMENT is set to declare rice and potatoes as staple food in addition to maize as the country seeks to enhance food ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 11:39
In rural Uganda, when a woman takes the food pans (the most commonly used one is usually made from a used fuel drum) to scrub ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 11:12
Former Minister of Agriculture, Mallam Adamu Bello, and his successor Ademola Seriki, yesterday engaged in an open war of words ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 11:06
South Africa ’s Agricultural Research Council (ARC) has developed the country’s first genetically modified (GM) potato ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 10:29
Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) can now heave a sign of relief from the high cost of foodstuff as new food ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 10:18
UPLAND rice farmers in Mukono have received sh27m to help them boost productivity. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 09:49
The Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (IRST) is drafting a policy that will promote bio-diesel exploration, ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 09:06
GRAZING over 200 heads of cattle, Ntaganda Charles looks happy, though a closer look betrays fear in his eyes. Uncertainty and ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 09:05
Senate investigation into the groaning food crisis took a curious dimension yesterday as the Accountant General of the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 09:02
A COMPREHENSIVE agricultural census expected to cost sh10b is in the offing, officials announced yesterday.
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 08:55
MANY farmers have become self-reliant and their productivity has increased, thanks to the Agricultural Productivity Enhancement ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 08:54
“Much of Africa ’s agriculture is rain fed, and this brings to the fore, the significance of climate in the realisation of ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 08:46
FARMERS need to learn new practices to adapt to new climatic changes. A report released by Oxfam, a non-governmental ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 07:53
A new fertiliser has been introduced to boost crop production. "It retains 100% nutrients in the soil and helps to ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 07:53
2008/07 - European Parlamentarians for Africa
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 07:44
ADB promises to help sd on food security The Swazi Observer, Swaziland - 48 minutes ago By Hlengiwe Ndlovu THE Africa ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 07:33
Tanzania yesterday outlined at least seven measures that will see the nation benefit from the global food crisis.
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 07:24
United Nations depury secretary-general Asha-Migiro addresses Parliament as Speaker Samuel Sitta looks on in Dodoma yesterday.
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 07:24
Kenyans are part of 14.6 million people in need of emergency food aid in the Horn of Africa.
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 07:23
The corporate world was last week treated to the bizarre spectacle of the mass "resignation" of almost all the top ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 07:23
To prevent economic bankruptcy as a result of sending $700 billion a year overseas to unstable oil producers in the Middle East ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 06:50
"These TRIPS issues are important to many members, but we think it's vital to keep the focus of this meeting on ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 06:24
Lake Chad "drying up" Gore says "global warming" dried up Lake Chad in > Africa . It did not. ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 06:13
However, Malthus differed from these people in one respect (and here he was being consistent): his “mathematical” reasoning ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 04:50
Agricultural Revolution," Japan's rescue package for Africa American Chronicle, CA - 1 hour ago The history of ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 04:28
Measures that I have secured through the Appropriations committee have brought water and sewer improvements, assistance for ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 03:15
Measures that I have secured through the Appropriations committee have brought water and sewer improvements, assistance for ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 03:10
"After an exhaustive review of a substantial body of climate research , and in conjunction with the obvious and ...
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Posted: 2008-07-23 at 02:27
US PRESIDENT GEORGE W. Bush has announced about $200 million in emergency food aid. This is in addition to his call on Congress ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 09:28
Africa : Japan Can Help Steer Continent's Development AllAfrica.com, Washington - 1 hour ago The bank is nearly doubling ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 09:12
Environmentalists are warning of dire consequences should the haphazard production of biofuels in Tanzania continue.
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 09:00
Below average rainfall over the densely populated and agricultural regions resulted in significant crop and stock losses, as ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 08:49
United States of America's under-secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agriculture, Ruben Jeffery, on Tuesday ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 08:41
‘Humanure’ for modern agriculture Daily Monitor, Uganda - 2 hours ago The farmers are waking up to the fact that human faeces ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 08:11
Rate This Article Financial Express, India - 1 hour ago The flow of speculative capital from financial investors into ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 07:08
Tegemeo Institute, an agricultural policy research institution, says Kenya needs to import at least eight million bags of ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 05:46
Nevertheless, UNESCO is providing some support through scientific initiatives such as the recentlycompleted International ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 04:47
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza declared on Monday that the success of the green revolution in Mozambique lies in the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 04:19
EU Opens Trade Talks With Offer Of 60 percent Cut In Farm Tariffs World Bank Group, DC - 2 hours ago ... with production ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 04:16
•Pillar 4: Agricultural Research , Technology •Country Reviews/Analytics Expanding Non-Food Assistance •Farm Inputs ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 03:04
16 July Portcullis House, Westminster - London. The world food crisis threatens to destroy years, if not decades, of economic ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 03:02
The Angolan Agriculture and Rural Development minister, Afonso Pedro Canga, will travel on Thursday to Caxito City in the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 03:00
(Addis Ababa) - Activities will be enhanced to maintain the successes being gained in the areas of research aimed at ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 02:53
Ghana: Government committed to improving sheanut industry FreshPlaza, Netherlands - 1 hour ago He said significant advances ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 02:25
Just adjacent the massive coffee bean sorting machine, Tim Shilling, a project manager for USAID and member of the Texas ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 01:40
Beginning 1 August, 2008, consumers will pay less on selected basic food items, more than a month after President Hifikepunye ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 01:32
I show capture is costly: elections affect loan repayment, and election year credit booms do not measurably affect ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 01:01
EARNINGS from the sales of tobacco have now surpassed the US$100 million mark since the beginning of the selling season in ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 12:52
HSRC are committed to getting intermediaries from the region (not sure if that meant South Africa or southern Africa ) ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 12:49
As the UK Guardian says: 'The economic crisis is largely blamed on the seizure of white-owned farms that began in 2000, ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 12:23
The fisherfolks and those who catch shrimps at Kani Kunda Tendala, a fishing village in the Sabach Sanjal District of the North ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 12:17
For more than six years the trade talks of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been stalled, mainly on account of ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 12:11
And then there are more obscure reasons like the drop in the value of the US dollar, fluctuations in interest rates, ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 12:10
The National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) says it is not planning a national shopping boycott today, nor are its member ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 11:54
A communalL farmer in the Kavango Region, Mukoya Kandjimi, was the biggest winner at the Ndiyona Agricultural Show that ended ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 11:54
"I HAVE lost all my three farms I bought since Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, the last one two months ago, all ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 11:54
Parliament has passed a law to control and manage the movement of plants and plant products in Namibia, one day before the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 11:54
The challenge of regional agricultural research networks is to determine both regional and national research priorities with ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 11:52
Scientists from the University of Stellenbosch have teamed up with Danish biotechnology firm Aresa to test a genetically ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 11:44
Senate Ad-hoc Committee, probing food crisis in the country, wants Federal Government to pay debts owed contractors in the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 11:43
Experts excited by rare lemur find in Madagascar Reuters South Africa, South Africa - 45 minutes ago They say that habitat ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 11:35
With the increasing reported cases of food poisoning in the country as a result of preserving food items with harmful ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 11:26
Ousmane Sembene, who is widely regarded as the father of the African cinema, will be posthumously celebrated in the 11th African Cinema Festival in the Moroccan city of Khouibga.
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 11:24
The US under secretary of State for Economy, Energy and Agriculture, Reuben Jeffrey III, manifested on Monday, in Luanda, his ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 10:50
Baphethile Mntambo has been farming organically for the past five years because she knows that avoiding chemicals will in the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 10:29
The Western Cape region attracts millions of tourists who come to this part of South Africa to enjoy its famous Table Mountain ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 10:29
More archaeological news from South Africa
…. prehistoric tools were unearthed during the excavation of a swimming pool at a Pretoria school. The tools are believed to date back at least 100 000 years when prehistoric man roamed the Pretoria area.
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 09:44
A new archaeological dig in South Africa has uncovered Zulu artefacts from the 19th century.
The excavation was undertaken by Amafa, KwaZulu-Natal’s heritage body, to locate the outer palisade of an oval-shaped homestead of about 1 500 beehive-shaped, grass-covered dwellings enclosing an open area where the king used to inspect his army and Nguni cattle.
Heritage dig [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 09:17
23 June 2008. The Food Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) and the International Food Policy ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 09:15
New Group of Endangered Lemurs Found in Madagascar Environment News Service - 1 hour ago Habitat destruction from ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 08:55
FOOD SECURITY UPDATE
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 08:19
Doctors with Africa CUAMM. 18 Jul 2008. Enfants du Monde - Droits de l'Homme. Two (2) Projest managers Enfants du Monde ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 08:01
The Government Monday donated traditional crop seeds to farmers as it moved to ensure food security.
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 06:58
Aloe, native to Africa , is also known as "lily of the desert", the "plant of immortality", and the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 06:34
A new database on the world's soils improves knowledge of the current and future land productivity as well as the present ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 06:02
However, I feel it needs someone from Feasta with an agricultural background to drive it along. We need to explore how this ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 03:15
Burkina has been the top cotton producer in West Africa in recent years, although its harvest slumped to 360000 tonnes in the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 01:32
(2) Portugal conquered post in Africa an started slave trade. They continued theirs journey to the species islands ...
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Posted: 2008-07-22 at 01:00
US Department of Agriculture research found that one variety of GM corn yielded 9 per cent more than conventional corn. The ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 11:43
AFP Kenya suspends wheat imports to save local farmers: minister AFP - 30 minutes ago He also a announced a ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 09:15
Food aid no solution to hunger Daily Nation, Kenya - 45 minutes ago According to a 2001 study by the Economic Research ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 09:01
Marc Cohen, Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, echoes Hoff, saying the key lies in local ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 08:53
Raise investment in agriculture or face political unrest ... ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland - 1 hour ago Qatar also ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 08:25
journal of agricultural and food chemistry, buy acai berry buy acai palm berry bossa nova buy acai juice buy acai review buy ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 07:55
Uses of water include agricultural , industrial, household, recreational and environmental activities. Virtually all of these ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 07:37
ENVIRONMENT-SOUTH AFRICA : Western Cape Farmers Expect the Unexpected Inter Press Service (subscription), Italy - 12 minutes ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 07:35
Global media reports have said mass starvation is looming for millions of Zimbabweans this year, following recent poor harvests ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 06:50
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the top food importers among Arab countries in the Gulf, are now looking to Asia and ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 06:21
The provincial executive of the centre-west Benguela Province will distribute in the next days about 500 tonnes of various ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 04:22
Agriculture continues to be one of the most important sectors, employing 80 to 85 per cent of the Gambian population. In this ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 04:02
Stockwire.com: China Agritech, Inc. (OTCBB:CAGC) just released ... Trading Markets (press release), CA - 2 hours ago The ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 03:41
A SECOND Namibian fishing vessel has been seized for alleged illegal fishing - this time in Mozambican waters.
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 03:11
Local farmers under the auspices of four agricultural schemes in Katsina State have frowned at the recent investigations into ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 03:01
Daniel Morris’s article about finding work in West Africa is very good and practical. He looks at the various options available. One of the main tenets seems to be that you need to actually be in the country you are seeking work in. It is not usually possible to find work on the internet. Embassy [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 02:51
conversion of forests and woodlands to agricultural land to feed growing numbers of people; * development of cash crops and ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 02:47
The rapid decline in fish stocks in Uganda's lakes has reached worrying levels compelling government to announce strong ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 02:23
Namibia is leading the way in terms of disease reporting in Southern Africa.
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 02:19
With a population of 13 million and blessed with political stability and the largest part of the fresh-water resource Lake ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 02:19
Nice video this, and it gives you a taste of Mali. Check out jszlasa on YouTube, they have lots of Mali vids.
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 02:05
Source: Rural Poverty Portal
Multilaterals
Délégation de la commission européenne
Stratégie de coopération et programme indicatif 2003-2007
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Policy [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 02:00
Source: Rural Poverty Portal
Rural poverty in Mali
National poverty reduction strategies have reduced the proportion of the country’s poor people from 68.3 per cent in 2001 to 59.2 per cent in [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 01:53
In Zimbabwe, inflation has risen so high that armfuls of cash are needed to buy even the most basic items of food. The ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 01:51
Kenya pushes traditional crops for food security Reuters South Africa, South Africa - Jul 21, 2008 The ministry is partnered ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 01:36
The ad-hoc committee of the Senate, investigating the food scarcity in Nigeria has summoned some contractors who got contracts ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 01:09
New Holland Tractors Achieves 100000th Tractor Rollout Milestone ... Market Wire (press release) - 39 minutes ago We are ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 01:06
Over 3000 butchermen in Jinja district are Jobless plus hundreds of others who operate butchers following a ban on the selling ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 12:36
African nations have been urged to utilise other natural resources other than food crops to produce biofuels to reduce the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 12:30
Organisation de la Presse Africaine (Communiqués de presse) Infrastructure projects in Africa / Financial Mail ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 12:10
Angola, Africa's top oil producer, is flush with money. Yet wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a very
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 12:00
The National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) is to produce genetically modified crops that are more resistant to ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 11:25
Senator Adamu Garba Talba yesterday reacted to submission of the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture that two serving ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 11:00
The sugar factory being constructed in Mayuge district, 28km from Jinja town, is expected to employ over 1,000 people when it ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 10:29
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Sunday expressed satisfaction at the increased capacity of operators in Milange ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 10:22
... Thembinkosi Nyathi, Practical Action, Zimbabwe; Challenges and cases in research -policy linkages in the agriculture ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 10:21
A special general meeting for a tea farmers' company ended in disarray at the weekend following what directors described ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 10:05
Agriculture minister William Ruto has disclosed plans by World Food Programme to purchase 10 million bags of maize in the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 10:05
A minister has said that value addition is the only way to save tea farmers from the marketing crises facing them.
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 10:05
WE ARE REMINDED, INcreasingly these days, of nature's potentially destructive power. Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, or the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 10:05
A policy document detailing the operations of the new Fisheries ministry will be out in September this year, minister Dr Paul ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 10:05
Gairo MP Ahmed Shabiby presents the ignition key of a Tractor to Philip Musa in Kilosa.
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 10:03
Each of these videos tells a different story behind Hallmark(RED), including an interview with (RED) co-founder Bobby Shriver on the AIDS epidemic in Africa and what (RED) hopes to accomplish; the story of how the Hallmark(RED) collection grew out of one card, as told by Sarah Mueller of Hallmark, who worked on [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 09:53
Source: WorldWatch
Eye on Mali: Jatropha Oil Lights Up Villages
–> Alana Herro – June 1, 2007 – 5:00am
The Jatropha curcas plant.
Photo by R. K. Henning
Some 700 communities in Mali have installed biodiesel [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 09:51
MOFA makes advances to boost Sheanut production Accra Daily Mail, Ghana - 4 hours ago He said significant advances had also ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 09:34
The following article was sent in by Scott A Morgan, Editor Confused Eagle, morganrights.tripod.com
Are the Tauregs being used as Cover by Islamists?
by Scott A Morgan
Although the current situation is being overshadowed by other events occuring across Africa, The Situation along the Malian-Algerian Border is a Crisis that needs to be monitored.
The [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 09:29
Afrik.com UN : Emergency actions needed to tackle food crisis Afrik.com, France - 2 hours ago The secretary-general also said ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 09:25
While agricultural production has increased, the growth of non-food products (ethanol for bio-gas) has grown even faster. The ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 09:18
The Tanzania government is to sell 50,000 bags of maize to Kenya to help meet a major deficit expected from next month.
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 09:16
Country Report No. 08/113: Mali: Sixth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Request for Waivers of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria and Request for Extension of Commitment Period - Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 09:16
Inhabitants of Guri local government area of Jigawa State may faced serious hunger this farming season, following the annual ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 09:07
The senate ad-hoc committee probing food crisis in the country, yesterday implicated former Minister of Industry and Chairman ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 08:44
Despite the global economic tumble hurting 2008 across the board, Razia Khan, Regional Research Head for Africa at Standard ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 08:42
The central government's co-ordinator of the supervision team for the coastal Kwanza Sul Province, Culture minister ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 08:41
Four associations of farmers of Chipeta, Sande, Caiuera e Chiuca communes, in Katabola district, central Bié province, received ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 08:37
President Paul Kagame Thursday received at Village Urugwiro, Sir Tom Hunter, a Scottish philanthropist working to improve the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 08:36
Two hundred and eighteen farm sites will be established throughout the federation during the second phase of the National Food ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 08:33
Senate ad-hoc committee investigating food crisis and investments in agricultural sector in the country has summoned six ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 08:26
ABJECT hunger and poverty mitigation is the top most agenda on the Millennium Development Goals and sub-Saharan African ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 08:12
Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Mr. Gbenga Makanjuola at the weekend assured that the on-going ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 08:09
... European Union (EU) inspection to South Africa where EU representatives held two meetings with the Department of ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 07:00
THE corrosive effects of spiralling inflation and food prices were confirmed on Friday when retail giant Woolworths confirmed ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 06:45
Rangarirai Mazirofa, 21, a second year agriculture student, was arrested in May last year with six other men for allegedly ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 06:11
Stephen Brown, PhD (Environmental Science, State University of New York), Ground Penetrating Radar Glacier research , District ...
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Posted: 2008-07-21 at 05:20
MediaGlobal Dispatches from a crisis: It's not the food, it's the poverty MediaGlobal, NY - 5 hours ago Marc Cohen, ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 10:53
Key to feeding Africa is better farms, not food aid Dubuque Telegraph Herald, IA - 5 hours ago According to the UN, nearly ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 10:52
Japan can help steer Africa ’s development East African, Kenya - 5 hours ago The bank is nearly doubling its agricultural ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 10:19
"Don't mix what God separates," says Steven Sugden, a research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 10:12
Firstly, there is a substantial session on Wednesday 13th August organised by the Information Literacy and Academic and ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 09:01
10. Drip irrigation gives new hope to Senegalese farmers 11. Global food crisis gives International Rice Research Institute ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 08:09
The report, an outcome of months of research by some of the world’s top scientists, points a finger at the governments of ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 07:55
The real cost of surviving Livemint, India - 8 hours ago A genetic revolution led developing countries in Asia to expand ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 07:21
Gardening a labour of love for Innocent Illawara Mercury, Australia - 8 hours ago He worked in research for two ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 07:20
Tesco’s decision not to source farm produce from Zimbabwe will hit small private businesses in the agricultural sector the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 07:04
“Policymakers are starting to understand that you can’t turn on and off agricultural research like a water faucet,” he said ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 06:41
(Imported from Sociolingo’s Mali blog which is now dormant)
Source: APA
Mali to double rice production to curb “high cost of living”
APA Bamako (Mali) The Malian government has decided to double the national production of rice in order to meet the national needs and face the price hike of international foodstuffs and basic commodities.
Some CFA [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 05:30
Although this warning is a couple of months old, the warning still stands. There have been more recent attacks in the north of Mali. Take care.
Following several attacks this month, the American Embassy in Bamako sent out the following warning. Please take note if you are currently in Mali or planning a trip there in [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 05:28
I’ve just seen a post on the African Press Association website about a new African xylophone museum to be created in Sikasso. It will be the first museum designed to preserve the heritage of the balafon, one of the famous musical instruments of the region. The Balafon is played in Mali, Burkina Faso, Cote-d’Ivoire, Togo, [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 05:25
Prof Allen is director of a research center run by the US Agricultural Research Service, part of the Department of ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 04:03
Source: IRIN NEWS
BAMAKO, 7 April 2008 (IRIN) - Seyba Traoré, aged 11, and his brother Moumini, 9, set out each morning with big bags slung over their shoulders to sort through the capital’s many rubbish dumps in search of scrap metal - car or motorbike parts, old lamps, curtain-rods - any old iron objects will [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 03:53
(Imported from Sociolingo’s Mali blog which is now dormant)
Not long ago I did a post on Sociolingo’s Africa of a newspaper article about plans for a uniform sign language for Africa. Now, I do realise this can be a contentious issue and that there are lots of grassroots organisations involved in African sign languages. [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 03:50
Posted by sociolingo on May 8, 2008
I know a lot of you guys already know this, but I am finding out what a rich source of cultural material YouTube is! Whilst trying to get together a post on a Jazz festival in Guinea in honour of the Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure, who sadly died [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 01:14
Watch this video about a school in southern Mali
African Sky Presents a video short that takes you to visit a rural primary school in Mali. Produced by Scott M. Lacy. All rights reserved, 2007
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 12:38
A new book by Joseph Alila is to be published.
Available from CreateSpace fro $14.99
RATENG’ AND BRIDE
(A POEM)
By JOSEPH R. ALILA
In the epic poem, “RATENG’ AND BRIDE,” Joseph R Alila (Author of such novels as “Whisper to My Aching Heart” and Sunset on Polygamy”) pleads with the hero (Rateng’) to abandon a lifelong ambition [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 12:00
Source: IRIN NEWS
MALI: Fears over privatising cotton
After years of delays the Mali national cotton company, Malian Company for Textile Development (CMDT), is on the verge of privatisation with bids for tender just sent out, but the World Bank which backs the privatisation is worried none of the right conditions are in place to make it [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 10:57
(Imported from Sociolingo’s Mali blog which is now dormant)
Interesting article seen on the Talahasee.com
From the page:
“In his free time, young Wague (pronounced “wah-GAY,” it means “Man of Trust”) tracked the animals in the bush. And at night, he went to school.
It wouldn’t be your typical study session. The student didn’t sit hunched at a desk, [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 09:24
Source:http://www.herbs.org/current/hibworld.html
African hibiscus harvest success story
Over the past two years, HRF has been working with the Africa Bureau of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to develop a test crop of hibiscus (Hibiscus sabdariffa) in Mali, West Africa, one of the world’s poorest nations. During his five-week trip to Africa last fall, HRF president Rob [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 08:54
Source: IMF
Mali: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
Published:
April 3, 2008
Electronic Access:
Free Full Text (PDF file size is 2,076KB)
Use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this PDF file.
Series:
Country Report No. 08/121
Mali: Joint Staff Advisory Note of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
Published:
April 3, 2008
Electronic Access:
Free Full Text (PDF file size is 208KB)
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 08:53
(Imported from Sociolingo’s Mali blog which is now dormant).
Source: IRIN NEWS
MALI: Still a long way to go to meet adult literacy targets
BAMAKO, 17 April 2008 (IRIN) - In 2000 the Malian government signed up to UN Education for All goals to help 50 percent more adults become literate by 2015, but eight years on still [...]
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 07:16
Silent revolution across Africa Truth about Trade & Technology, IA - 20 hours ago The meeting organised by the Forum for ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 07:00
NIGERIANS may be in for endless wait for the amelioration of the pains of the rising cost of food in the country in response to ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 06:43
(The Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research weed identification tool, for example, though it is also very useful, ...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 at 05:22
Daily Nation Tree that holds solution to fuel crisis and environmental conservation Daily Nation, Kenya - Jul 19, 2008 “Seeing ...
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Posted: 2008-07-19 at 09:00
Fruit Company (now Chiquita Brands http://www.chiquita.com) in 1959, but was donated to this private agricultural research ...
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Posted: 2008-07-19 at 04:13
Government committed to improving sheanut industry Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Ghana - Jul 19, 2008 He said significant ...
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Posted: 2008-07-19 at 02:50
END OF YEAR 2005 REPORT FROM THE GRASSROOTS ON DHOOBLEY VILLAGE AND AFMADOW … As the executive director of East Africa Relief ...
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Posted: 2008-07-19 at 01:25
Hoodia was found to be in safety during clinical research . The experiments on animals, is a natural product, the grass ...
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Posted: 2008-07-19 at 05:45
By contrast, fast reproducing generalist species that thrive in agricultural mosaics - such as duikers or rodents - may be ...
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Posted: 2008-07-19 at 04:40
The research is so extensive that even a bizarre letter to the editor published in the Arabic newspaper Akhir Sa’a in Egypt ...
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Posted: 2008-07-19 at 12:03
Improving research data sharing and management. Posted: 11 Jun 2008 04:48 AM CDT. 2008/06 - AgInfo News from IAALD. The ...
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Posted: 2008-07-19 at 12:00
Food crisis intensifies as weed hits western Kenya Standard, Kenya - Jul 18, 2008 A Kenya Agricultural Research Institute ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 08:23
A SADC Summit, due to meet in South Africa in August, could find itself confronted with a serious decision to make regarding ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 08:10
While it’s readily used in the food of the Philippines and Africa , it’s not a part of Burmese culture, he said. Bates had ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 07:17
Burkina launches Monsanto GMO cotton to boost crop Reuters - Jul 18, 2008 Researchers at Burkina Faso's INERA ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 06:04
VANCOUVER - Jul 18/08 - SNS -- The European Union's Joint Research Center (JRC) and Institute for the Protection and ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 05:16
CONCERTED GLOBAL ACTION NEEDED FOR FOOD AND ENERGY CRISES – ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT New York, Jul 18 2008 1:00PM Urgent changes in ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 05:00
Thousands of protestors marched in the city of Bobo-Dioulasso on 15 March complaining of high food prices.
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 04:45
The Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) under the administrative control of the Indian Council of Agricultural ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 04:34
A 10-person tribunal of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), sitting in Windhoek, had began this week to hear a ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 04:26
Inadequate vegetable seeds, water, insecticides, garden materials, storage facilities, a competitive market, as well as a good ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 04:17
Malawi, riding high on recent cereal surpluses, is hedging its bets against inclement weather disrupting its good fortune by ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 04:13
We need to find alternative sources of energy, to reduce energy consumption and to guard against destroying our agricultural ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 03:42
For now, Kim said, the existing research should encourage adults to pay more attention to bullying and signs of suicidal ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 02:52
Attacks on aid workers and threats to ships delivering food aid to Somalia, coupled with the effects of drought and poor ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 02:38
ZIMBABWE'S economic policies have degenerated from the absurd to the ridiculous.
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 01:40
According to the preliminary report of the Central Statistical Office of 1991, the rural areas account for 58 percent of the ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 01:20
An operation to recover a record 7 000 livestock that were stolen a year ago in the Khorixas area has failed. To date, most ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 01:20
Farmers in Kano State are yet to take delivery of fertilizer allocation from the state ministry of agriculture many months ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 12:47
The new research by Tuft University's Wise and trade experts Mamerto Perez and Sergio Schlesinger, entitled "The ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 12:03
This report (KIT Working Paper I1, 2008, 65 p.) covers a research study of Dgroups which took place from September 2006 to July ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 11:41
"We cannot speak of good governance without good communication," says Moussa Sawadogo, a consultant in communication ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 11:24
The United Nations World Food Programme said today that attacks on aid workers on the ground and threats to ships delivering ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 11:00
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission backed a plan on Friday to give 1 billion euros (795 billion pounds) to farmers in ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 10:59
PROMINENT Nigerians including senators and emirs were yesterday named as beneficiaries in the Federal Government's ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 10:52
FOR the country to produce intensively to satisfy our domestic requirements and have surplus for exports, there has to be an ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 10:52
MINISTER of Agriculture and Water Resources, Dr. Sayyadi Ruma has said in Abuja that high price of rice was an opportunity for ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 10:51
Ueli's B2B KS site. Interesting experiences of locally organised entrepreneurs building knowledge sharing to their work in ...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 at 10:51
