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BRAZIL: Sugarcane's Electrical Potential Goes to Waste
03 09 2010 Sugarcane could replace the energy produced by three hydroelectric dams like the Belo Monte in the Amazon, claims the Brazilian sugarcane industry, which remains relegated to marginal participation in the national electricity matrix.
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/CORRECTED REPEAT*/AFRICA: Woman Researcher Tackles Aflatoxin Poisoning
03 09 2010 Despite a bumper harvest of maize just a few months ago, many residents in the eastern part of Kenya are facing hunger and starvation. While granaries in the region may be full, the grain cannot be freely sold, let alone eaten.
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Revolution in African Agriculture Gathering Momentum
03 09 2010 As one major meeting on agriculture ends, another begins: farming is truly back on Africa's agenda.
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Uganda Could Become Regional Rice Exporter say Researchers
02 09 2010 In a small garden at the Entebbe Botanical garden, about 40 kilometres from Kampala, a few yellowish plants are trying to adapt to their new environment.
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Funding Begins Flowing for African Agriculture
02 09 2010 The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) has received a major boost as several countries have begun drawing on funds from a $22 billion pledge made by the G8.
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Fisheries Can Play Key Role in Africa
01 09 2010 Fisheries contribute at least $10 billion dollars to African economies every year. In countries such as Angola, Egypt and Namibia, fisheries are vital economic drivers.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Growing Seed Security
01 09 2010 Farmer Obed Dlamini, like many of his colleagues from Swaziland, finds it difficult to find quality maize seeds each planting season. Not only are the seeds expensive but they are often not available.
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VENEZUELA: Hunger Striker Dies in Land Dispute
01 09 2010 Franklin Brito, who held several long hunger strikes since 2004 to defend ownership of his farm, became the first Venezuelan to fast to the death.
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SOUTH AMERICA: Argentine Beef Overtaken by Mercosur Partners
31 08 2010 South America's Mercosur trade bloc is becoming established as the top world producer of beef, with 40 percent of the international market. But while in Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay production and exports are growing, Argentina, the home of the legendary "asado" barbecue, is falling behind.
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US: Salmonella Outbreak Tied to Factory Farming
27 08 2010 As regulators traced the U.S. salmonella outbreak spread by infected eggs back to the hen feed used at two Iowa farms Thursday, many groups are pointing the blame at the factory farm system from which the eggs – and bacteria – came.
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AFRICA: Outrage Over Claim that Anti-GM Campaign "Causes Hunger"
27 08 2010 Civil society organisations have reacted with outrage to claims that the international campaign against genetically modified (GM) crops is partly responsible for food shortages and food insecurity in Africa.
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Mali Nomads Flee Drought
26 08 2010 Nomadic communities in northern Mali's desert regions are facing one of the most serious droughts of the last twenty years.
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AGRICULTURE-SOUTH AFRICA: 'There Is No Dignity'
25 08 2010 South African farm workers – especially female labourers – continue to be exploited, despite the existence of national labour laws and regulations designed to protect them. But in the absence of information and education about their rights, workers have a hard time claiming them.
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ECONOMY: "Sub-Saharan Africa Is Speeding Towards Affluence"
25 08 2010 Africa is heading towards a bright economic future, according to a new book co-authored by the former director of the French state agency for economic cooperation and released recently in Paris.
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KENYA: A Bid to Save Macadamia Crops
25 08 2010 Joseph Ndirangu Muriithi is a worried man. After watching the fall of coffee farming in Kenya a decade ago, he now fears that his other cash crop will also go into decline as a new disease preys on his macadamia trees.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Climate Change Policy Ignores Women Farmers
24 08 2010 When asked if they have already felt the effects of climate change, Mary-Anne Zimri and Katrina Scheepers eagerly nod their heads. The two small-scale farmers say lack of rain this winter has foiled their planting season, ruined their harvest – and drastically slashed their income.
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WORLD: Fair Trade Is Growing But Africans Lag Behind
24 08 2010 Despite its minuscule share of world trade, fair trade is a booming business, importing certified foodstuffs and products from all over the world to Northern supermarkets. But there is increasing concern that this growth is yet to benefit poor countries in Africa.
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ECUADOR: Small Farmers Sell to Government in "Inclusive Markets"
24 08 2010 The powerful middleman threatened them: "I hope it lasts for you. I hope the government buys your beans forever, because I don't want you ever coming back to me!"
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ENERGY: Brazilian Biofuels Run into EU Obstacles
22 08 2010 Brazil has begun a counterattack on the European Union's measures for certifying crop-based fuels, which could lead to import barriers for this energy source coming from the South American giant.
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COLOMBIA: The Violent "Agrarian Counter-Reform" Conspiracy
21 08 2010 An unknown number of agribusiness owners and public employees at all levels, as well as far-right paramilitaries, have a common link with rural people who have been forced off their farms or killed in Colombia: the land stolen from the latter group in the armed conflict.
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AFRICA: Woman Researcher Tackles Aflatoxin Poisoning
18 08 2010 Despite a bumper harvest of maize just a few months ago, many residents in the eastern part of Kenya are facing hunger and starvation. While granaries in the region may be full, the grain cannot be sold, let alone be eaten.
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ENVIRONMENT: Uruguay Tries to Solve Its Forestry Puzzle
17 08 2010 "A Uruguayan consumes 40 kilos of paper per year, compared to 400 kilos consumed by someone in Finland. We produce wood pulp to feed foreign consumption," says sociologist María Selva Ortiz, representative of the environmental group Redes-Friends of the Earth Uruguay.
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Niger Facing Growing Food Crisis
17 08 2010 In April, the United Nations World Food Programme estimated it would need 190 million dollars to respond to a food crisis threatening more than 7 million people in Niger. By July, the WFP had revised the amount needed upwards to $371 million: a month later, the U.N. agency has been forced to scale back aid for lack of funds.
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RWANDA: Improving the Lives of Small-Scale Farmers
17 08 2010 Joelle Nsamira Kajuga, a female agricultural researcher has a ready answer to describe which modified crop will produce a higher yield, which will be resistant to bacteria, and which will ensure food security and generate a higher turnover for poor small-scale farmers in different regions in Rwanda.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Land Reform Underfinanced and Failing
14 08 2010 Mavis Muchena sits on the veranda of her mud hut, a middle-aged single mother of four with a face worn beyond her years and hands creased from working the soil. She should represent the future of a renewed farming boom in Zimbabwe, but instead she represents its failure.
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