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Mali | Côte d'Ivoire
Crime | Policy | Social

Reporter offered child slaves

afrol News, 17 March - Working undercover to reveal the extent of forced child labour in Côte d'Ivoire's cocoa industry, a Danish journalist openly was offered to buy as many children as he wanted for €200 each in Mali.

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Chad
Famine | Food Security

Food crisis affecting 2 million in Chad

afrol News, 16 March - Around 2 million people have been affected by the poor harvest of 2009-2010 in Chad and they will need food and non-food assistance during this year, according to a new emergency report from the Sahelian country.

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Somalia
Affairs | Corruption | Food Security | War & Peace

UN confirms Somalia food aid corruption

afrol News, 11 March - The UN's food aid agency WFP today confirmed the authenticity of a leaked report, which concludes that up to half the food aid sent to Somalia is stolen by corrupt contractors. WFP has already frozen cooperation with three Somali transport contractors.

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Africa
Development | Policy | Trade

Call for common African food market

afrol News, 10 March - At the African agriculture summit in Abuja, the proposal of creating a common Africa market of strategic food and agricultural commodities achieved much attention. A scheme that could boost African agriculture was presented.

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Congo Kinshasa
Food Security | Livestock | Natural sciences | Science

Guinea pigs to help ease DRC food crisis - scientists

afrol News, 10 March - Scientists are examining how to increase guinea pig production to boost food security in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where inhabitants keep the rodents as "micro-livestock". The researchers were originally puzzled to find guinea pigs in the DRC at all.

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Development | Policy | Trade

West Africa enters intl organic food market

afrol News, 9 March - Consumers in Europe and America are willing to pay extra for trusted quality organic food products. Now, a new project helps thousands of farmers in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal and Sierra Leone to enter this lucrative market.

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Kenya
Development | Development | Finance | Food Security

Kenya farmers get low-tech micro-insurance

afrol News, 9 March - Drought usually spells disaster for small-scale farmers in Kenya. Innovative low-threshold technologies for the first time are empowering farmers to lower their weather risks by purchasing cheap micro-insurance policies.

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Africa
Development | Policy | Policy

"Subsidise infrastructure, not fertilisers," report

afrol News, 9 March - A new report urges African governments to stop the new tendency of direct intervention in agriculture, with subsidising fertilisers as an example. Government should rather help markets by providing infrastructure than thwarting markets, it says.

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Chad
Food Security

Chad food crisis gets attention

afrol News, 8 March - Donors are ramping up efforts to assist around 2 million Chadians who will require food aid this year because of poor rainfall and lean harvests, according to reports from UN agencies coordinating the aid efforts.

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Africa
Food Security | Medicine | Natural sciences | Science | Science

Drumstick tree can provide Africa with clean water

afrol News, 5 March - Moringa oleifera, also known as the drumstick tree, could be the almost cost free solution to provide millions of Africans with clean water. A simple technique can make its seeds into an effective water purification remedy.

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Cape Verde
Development | Land rights | Policy | Policy

Cape Verde farmers to reorganise into companies

afrol News, 5 March - The government of Cape Verde is promoting the set-up of agricultural companies by the archipelago's farmers. This commercialisation of agriculture should "boost rural development," the PM holds.

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Gambia
Affairs | Development | Economic rights | Economy | Finance | Food Security | People | Policy | Poverty | Social Services

$8 million support for agric production

afrol News, 4 March - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has signed a grant agreement of US$8 million with the Republic of The Gambia to improve the production and marketability of livestock and horticulture products, specifically targeting rural women and youth nationwide.

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Mozambique
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Economy | Finance | Food Security | Livestock | People | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services

Mozambique to carry out agric census to gauge poverty

afrol News, 1 March - Mozambique is expected to sign a grant deal with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Italian government that will give capacity to the country to strengthen its agricultural production statistics.

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South Africa | Zimbabwe
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Economy | Finance | Land rights | Law | People | Socio-economic

Evicted Zim farmers in another ‘victory’

afrol News, 26 February - South Africa has been put on yet another test that could see power relations in the regional bloc, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), fused once more.

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Angola
Affairs | Development | Economy | Finance | Food Security | Industry | People | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Trade

Government approves $250 mln for agro-credit

afrol News, 16 February - Angola has approved $250 million agro-credit for small and medium scale farmers to strengthen credit among local businessmen.

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Africa | Uganda
Development | Natural sciences

"Easy to double African banana yields"

afrol News, 12 February - Over 70 million people in the East African highlands depend on banana as their primary source of food and income. With just a "minimal use" of fertilisers, they could easily double their yields, a new study finds. The results are said to be applicable for all Africa.

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Cameroon
Development | Nutrition | Science | Social sciences

"Overweight girls, undernourished boys" in Cameroon

afrol News, 12 February - A new study, the first of its kind in Cameroon, reveals how new nutritional trends in Central Africa are causing problems of both over- and undernourished school children.

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West Africa | Central African Republic
Food Security

New maize varieties to boost output

afrol News, 12 February - Improved maize varieties, developed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and partners, that will help enhance food security and incomes of maize farmers in the West and Central Africa have been released by the Nigerian National Variety Release Committee.

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Kenya
Conservation | Food Security | Livestock | Management | Policy | Policy | Wildlife

Kenya ferries park herbivores to feed starving lions

afrol News, 11 February - Kenyan wildlife authorities have begun moving thousands of zebras and wildebeest across the country to feed lions in the areas devastated by drought.

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Niger
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Disasters | Economy | Finance | Food Security | Nutrition | People | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services

International aid appeal launched for Niger

afrol News, 11 February - The United Nations and its non-governmental organisation (NGO) partners have appealed for international aid to help the impoverished West African country of Niger overcome imminent shortages of food. Some 7.8 million people in Niger - or three fifths of the population – are said to be facing moderate to severe food insecurity.

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Chad
Affairs | Development | Development | Economy | Finance | Livestock | Management | People | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Socio-economic | Water

Herders receive support to improve pastoral resources

afrol News, 9 February - Chadian nomadic herders in the arid sub-Saharan Sahel region, will benefit from a grant of $19.5 million to help secure water sources. The project will be funded through the United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating rural poverty.

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World | Africa
Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Economy | Events | Finance | Land rights | Law | People | Policy | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Socio-economic

Funding to help countries improve land tenure

afrol News, 8 February - A new partnership between Finland and FAO is to assist countries to develop sustainable and affordable land administration systems to improve tenure security and land governance in both rural and urban areas.

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Ethiopia
Economy | Finance | Food Security | Nutrition | People | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Social services

Ethiopia makes international food aid appeal

afrol News, 4 February - Ethiopia has declared an emergency making an international plea for aid to feed 5.2 million people this year.

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Zimbabwe
Affairs | Economy | Finance | Food Security | People | Poverty | Social Services

Zimbabwe needs 500 000 tonnes of maize

afrol News, 3 February - Zimbabwe’s minister of Agriculture says the country needs to urgently import 500,000 tonnes of maize to avert corn shortages following an extended dry spell that has adversely affected crop production.

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Africa | World
Affairs | Conservation | Cooperation | Development | Events | Food Security | Management | Nature | People | Policy | Policy | Policy | Pollution | Poverty | Social Services | Water

BirdLife cares for wetlands

afrol News, 2 February - Today is World Wetlands Day and this year’s theme – Caring for wetlands: an answer to climate change – highlights the bonds between wetlands, biodiversity and climate change. “Caring for wetlands is part of the solution to climate change”, said Melanie Heath – Senior Advisor on Climate Change at BirdLife. “If we manage them well, wetland ecosystems and their biodiversity have a vital role to play in mitigating against, and adapting to, climate change”.

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