Malawi
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Malawi’s rural land development project gets additional funding
afrol News, 20 November - The World Bank has granted Malawi US$10 million for the Community-Based Rural Land Development Project (CBRLDP). The additional grant will also extend the project for another two years, the bank said. Read more
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Africa | World
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Developing countries urged to make agriculture a funding priority
afrol News, 19 November - On the final day of the World Summit on Food Security, the head of the UN’s rural poverty agency said he was pleased to see how developing countries are increasingly deepening their commitments to food security through investment in agriculture. Read more
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World
Affairs | Development | Economy | Macroeconomy | Policy | Policy | Trade
Concluding Doha Round could boost recovery, WB
afrol News, 19 November - Countries can contribute to a more robust recovery from the global recession by rapidly concluding the Doha Development Round (DDA), which could bring up to US$160 billion in gains, according to new World Bank research. Read more
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Horn of Africa
Development | Disasters | Famine | Finance | Food Security | People | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services
Spain doubles aid for Horn of Africa
afrol News, 19 November - The World Food Programme (WFP) has today received a boost for its emergency relief efforts feeding millions of hungry people in the Horn of Africa, with the announcement of a $112 million donation from Spain. Read more
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Africa | World
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FAO chief regrets no measurable targets adopted to fight hunger
afrol News, 19 November - The three-day United Nations summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome yesterday with its host lamenting that it produced neither measurable targets nor specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet. Read more
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Africa | World
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$1 million boost for FAO’s food security work
afrol News, 16 November - The United Nations efforts to strengthen agriculture and enhance food security received a boost, ahead of a major summit beginning today, thanks to new initiatives with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and a leading Brazilian university. Read more
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Africa | World
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FAO calls for worldwide day-long hunger strike
afrol News, 12 November - The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has called for a day-long, worldwide hunger strike, against chronic hunger, on the eve of next week’s World Summit on Food Security. Read more
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Africa | World
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Africa’s poor to suffer due high food prices
afrol News, 11 November - Millions of people in dozens of poor countries are in desperate need of emergency humanitarian aid, despite good global cereal harvests this year. This due to stubbornly high food prices, the United Nations agricultural agency warned in a report released yesterday. Read more
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China-Africa commitments applauded
afrol News, 10 November - The head of the UN food agency has welcomed the declaration by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation underlining the critical role that investment in food security, agriculture and infrastructure plays in feeding people on the continent. Read more
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Mauritania
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Mauritanian grassroots groups receive US funding
afrol News, 10 November - The United States African Development Foundation (USADF), in conjunction with the United States Embassy in Mauritania, hosted a ceremony to launch nearly $850,000 in development assistance to grassroots groups in Mauritania. Representatives from each group receiving USADF funds were in attendance. Read more
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Africa
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AGRA and NEPAD partner to increase food security in Africa
afrol News, 9 November - The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) have today announced a groundbreaking partnership that will link African government commitments to agricultural development with concrete programmes in seeds, soil health, policy, and markets. Read more
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Nigeria
Development | Development | Natural sciences | Science | Social sciences
Nigeria to get agro-research park
afrol News, 9 November - The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture on this weekend unveiled a strategy to boost agricultural research in Africa with plans to establish a "Global Research Park" in Nigeria.
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Central Africa | West Africa
Development | Natural sciences | Nutrition | Poverty | Science | Social sciences
Maize research splendid investment for Africa
afrol News, 3 November - A new book looking at the history and effect on maize research in West and Central Africa reveals it is among the best spent funds to achieve poverty reduction. Every million US$ spent on maize research had lifted 35,000 Africans out of poverty, it claims.
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Ghana
Development | Policy | Policy | Trade
Ghana fit to double cocoa production
afrol News, 3 November - The Ghanaian government and its cocoa industry is gearing up to meet the aim of producing one million metric tonnes of cocoa by 2012. Ghana's Cocoa Marketing Company is already preparing to address bottlenecks in distribution, marketing and sales.
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Tanzania
Cooperation | Development | Economy | Finance | Food Security | People | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Trade
Tanzanian farmers receive FAO's boost
afrol News, 28 October - The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is to provide Tanzania with advisory support for farmers that will help them better respond to market opportunities and thus heighten food security. Read more
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Kenya | World
Development | Development | Finance | People | Poverty | Social Services
Kenya leads Africa rural connect in third round
afrol News, 27 October - The Africa Rural Connect (ARC), a new online community hosted by the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA), announced today the third-round winners of its online contest to select the best ideas submitted on how to help solve rural Africa’s greatest challenges in agricultural development. The first- and second-prize winners were from Kenya, while the third prize went to a resident of the United States. Read more
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Africa
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Africa told to enhance actions to reduce disaster risk
afrol News, 23 October - Climate change will lead to ever greater numbers of people being uprooted in Africa, the top United Nations humanitarian official said yesterday, calling for enhanced and swift actions to reduce disaster risk and step up mitigation. Read more
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Ethiopia
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Ethiopia needs urgent food aid
afrol News, 22 October - Ethiopia has appealed for emergency food aid for 6.2 million people following five year drought that has ravaged poor communities in the Horn of Africa. Read more
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