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ZIMBABWE, Military seed merchants
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81090 HARARE, 23 October 2008 (IRIN) The distribution of agricultural inputs such as maize seed and fertiliser for the 2008/09 season has become the domain of Zimbabwe's military and President Robert Mugabe's ZANUPF party. As the first rains ...
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CHINA - Flirting With Land Tenure Reforms
Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, Oct 13 (IPS) Faced with a deepening global financial meltdown, the Chinese communist party is contemplating farreaching internal reforms capable of insulating the country from the worst effects of the crisis such as by loosening its grip over land ...
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Biotechnology 'no cure-all' for food insecurity
Ochieng' Ogodo 26 September 2008 EN Africans, like this Tanzanian paprika farmer, require more access to land and fertilisers to take advantage of the products of biotechnology USAID NAIROBI Biotechnology is no panacea to the food insecurity and poverty problems in Africa and other ...
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REPORT Climate change A new threat to stability in West Africa, Evidence from Ghana and Burkina Faso
from IISD http://www.iisd.org/publications/pub.aspx?id=1011 By Oli Brown, Alec Crawford Over the past decades, the way we talk about climate change has evolved. Traditionally seen as an environmental and an energy issue ...
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Voluntary Standards and the Resource Curse
http://www.enn.com/lifestyle/article/38093 From: Global Policy Innovations Program, More from this Affiliate Published September 4, 2008 09:34 AM In this TED talk, economist Paul Collier explains how the alliance of compassion and enlightened selfinterest ...
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AFGHANISTAN Dust storms cause health problems in west
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79900 HERAT, 20 August 2008 (IRIN) Unusually strong winds carrying dust from the parched land have increased respiratory and eye diseases in western Afghanistan, according to health and environmental officials. The winds ...
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AFGHANISTAN UN renews call for food aid funding
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79881 KABUL, 19 August 2008 (IRIN) Special Representative of the UN SecretaryGeneral for Afghanistan Kai Eide has called on donors to respond quickly to a US$404 million appeal made a month ago ...
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EAST AFRICA Help pastoralists adapt to climate change
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79883 NAIROBI, 19 August 2008 (IRIN) Pastoralists in East Africa's arid and semiarid lands (ASAL) need to be empowered to adapt to, and survive, climate change, a report by a humanitarian organisation says. "Pastoralists across East ...
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SOMALIA Street children increase as food insecurity grips region
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79823 NAIROBI, 14 August 2008 (IRIN) Food insecurity compounded by inflation and recent fighting between insurgents and government forces around the town of Beletweyne in central Somalia's Hiran region has led ...
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DJIBOUTI Access to food halved
nbsp;http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79824 NAIROBI, 14 August 2008 (IRIN) Access to food in Djibouti has been cut by more than 50 percent because of reduced availability and rising prices, according to a humanitarian official. "The price ...
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