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UGANDA: COULD BECOME REGIONAL RICE EXPORTER, RESEARCHERS SAY
KAMPALA, Sep. 2, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - 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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FOOD: REVOLUTION IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE GATHERING MOMENTUM
ACCRA, Sep. 2, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - As one major meeting on agriculture ends, another begins: farming is truly back on Africa's agenda.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: GROWING SEED SECURITY
WINDHOEK, Sep. 1, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - 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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DEVELOPMENT: FISHERIES CAN PLAY KEY ROLE IN AFRICA
CAPE TOWN, Sep. 1, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Fisheries contribute at least $10 billion to African economies every year. In countries such as Angola, Egypt and Namibia, fisheries are vital economic drivers.
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DEVELOPMENT: FUNDING BEGINS FLOWING FOR AFRICAN AGRICULTURE
WINDHOEK, Sep. 1, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (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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AFRICA: ‘WELCOME TO MY TAXI – LET’S DO BUSINESS ON MY CELL PHONE’
JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 31, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - In cities across Africa, being an entrepreneur requires no office, business card or investors. All it takes is a cell phone, says Adele Botha, a researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa.
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SOUTH AFRICA: ‘TEA BAG’ FILTER PROVIDES SAFE DRINKING WATER
JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 30, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Though it may look like a tea bag, straining water through this recently developed filter could provide a cheap, easily replenished source of water for those who need it most.
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AFRICA: OUTRAGE OVER CLAIM THAT ANTI-GM CAMPAIGN "CAUSES HUNGER"
CAPE TOWN, Aug. 27, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - 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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ASIA: JAPAN’S GDP FALLS TO NEW LOW AGAINST CHINESE GROWTH
TOKYO, Sep. 3, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - China’s stepping up as the world’s second largest economy drives home to Japan the point that after decades of ruling the roost in Asia, it will have to share the leadership stage with a new, powerful contender that is here to stay.
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DEVELOPMENT: SOUTH-EAST ASIAN HIGHWAY HITS ROADBLOCK IN BURMA
BANGKOK, Aug. 31, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - With its thick forest cover and abundant wildlife, the Dawna mountain range in south-eastern Burma is coming in the way of a flagship highway project being pushed by one of Asia’s premier financiers of roads.
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA: CHINA FLEXES HYDROPOWER MUSCLE
BANGKOK, Aug. 27, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - After all the turbines in the Xiaowan hydropower station sputtered to life this week in China’s south-west Yunnan province, the Asian giant was able to lay claim to having the world’s largest hydropower capacity.
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BRAZIL: INEQUALITY DECLINES IN RIO AS RICH GET POORER
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep. 2, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - The huge gap between the poorest and richest neighbourhoods of Brazil's most famous city shrank between 1996 and 2008. But the news is not as good as it sounds, because the decline in inequality was due to lower incomes in the richer zones, rather than to an increase in wealth in the "favelas" or shantytowns.
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ARGENTINA-BRAZIL: NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS A MODEL FOR THE WORLD
BUENOS AIRES, Sep. 2, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - A system of mutual safeguards, created nearly two decades ago by Argentina and Brazil for in-situ verification of the peaceful use of nuclear power in both countries, serves as an international model of transparency and confidence building in this highly sensitive field.
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NICARAGUA: MAJOR BLOW TO ILLITERACY AMONG NATIVE GROUPS
MANAGUA, Aug. 26, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - For 46 years, Nicanor García didn't know that his first name was seven letters long and that the first letter was also the start of the names of his country, Nicaragua, and his father, Norberto. He found out just eight months ago, when he finally learned how to read and write.
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HAITI: SCRAPING BY ON MUD COOKIES
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug. 27, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - At six in the morning in Cite Soleil, the poorest zone of Haiti's capital city, the sun is already up. It's the start of another workday for Lurene Jeanti, making cookies from mud, butter and salt. She's been mixing the ingredients on the side of the road to sell to her neighbours for the past eight years.
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EAST EUROPE: ACTIVISTS DECRY PROMOTION OF CAR CULTURE
PRAGUE, Sep. 3, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Quality of life in Eastern European cities will continue to fall unless outdated systems of city life dominated by cars are abandoned, NGOs in the region say.
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EUROPE-ENVIRONMENTAL: STUDY FAULTS EU FOR INACTION
PARIS, Aug. 28, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - The European Union (EU) is failing to fulfil its environmental commitments in practically all areas, from protecting biodiversity to improving air quality in the cities, according to official studies released this month.
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SPAIN: MARATHON PUPPET SHOW RAISES FUNDS FOR BOLIVIAN SCHOOL
MADRID, Aug. 28, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - The 17th Titirilandia (Puppetland) Festival will conclude with a marathon puppet show, to be held Sunday Aug. 29 in Spain's capital city in aid of a school in the remote Bolivian mining province of Potosí.
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HEALTH: U.N. LAGGING ON WATER AND SANITATION DEVELOPMENT GOALS
UNITED NATIONS, Sep. 2, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - The United Nations stands accused of marginalising water and sanitation in its much-touted Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at improving the lives of billions of people in the developing world.
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GEOTHERMAL: MINIMAL INVESTMENT IN GETTING ENERGY FROM THE EARTH
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - The heat in the upper six miles of the earth’s crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world’s oil and gas reserves combined. Despite this abundance, only 10,700 megawatts of geothermal electricity generating capacity have been harnessed worldwide.
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