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Agriculture
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 | African livestock can triumph in the face of climate change | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Africaâ?s livestock producers are proving resi
lient to climate change and generating huge
economic benefits for their nations and regions, researchers said in a book publ
ished Monday by the International Institute for
Environment and Development (IIED) and SOS Sahel.
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| Yam research in Africa receives support from European Union | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Research on yam improvement in West and Central Africa h
as received a boost with a donation of US$ 1 million from the European Union-Afr
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can, Caribbean and Pacific Science and Technology Programme (EU-ACP), according
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o a statement from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), b
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sed in Ibadan, capital of the South West Oyo State of Nigeria.
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| Officials follow up Tanzania's ivory auction proposal | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Officials of the UN panel overseeing the Conven
tion on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) have started the inspe
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tion of Tanzania's ivory stockpile which the government intends to auction, desp
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te mounting opposition from some African countries that are worried about the su
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vival of their own elephant herds.
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| Niger invests CFAF 4b on millet | | Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger will directly buy 20,000 tonnes of millet from prod
ucers at the cost of CFA F 4 billion (about US$ 9 million), PANA reported from h
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re Tuesday.
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| Burundi coffee production tumbles to 6,500 tonnes | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Unroasted coffee harvests for 2008/2009 in Burundi t
umbled to 6,500 tonnes, while the production reached over 30,000 tonnes the prev
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ous year, a source close to the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry tol
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PANA here.
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| Fighting climate change with grasslands | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Grasslands have vast untapped potential to mitigate clim
ate change by absorbing and storing
Carbon Dioxide (CO2), according to a new report by the Food and Agriculture Orga
nisation (FAO).
13/01/2010 full text... |
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| Italy gives Mauritania US$3m for food security | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian Foreign Affairs Minister Naha Mint M
ouknass, and his Italian
counterpart Franco Frattini, Monday evening signed a US$3 million agreement to e
nhance food security in the
African nation.
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| French diplomat advises Angola to focus on farming | | Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The French Ambassador to Angola, Francis Blondet, here o
n Friday advised the Angolan government to continue working for agricultural and
human development, noting that they are important areas for the country's progre
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s, PANA reported.
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| Cocoa prices go up in Ghana | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana has increased the producer price of cocoa by 8.6 per
cent, jumping up from
2,208 Ghana cedis to 2,400 Ghana cedis per tonne (US$1=1.42 Ghana cedis).
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| Tanzania moves to protect fisheries sector | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - In a bid to protect its fisheries industry, the
Tanzanian government Wednesday ordered local stockists and
manufacturers of restricted commercial fishing nets to destroy the gear immediat
ely or risk legal action.
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| Burundi tea growers get nearly US$1 million bonus | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Tea Board in Burundi (OTB) is to release some 95
7 million Burundian francs (about US$957,000) of its profits in 2009 for redist
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ibution to tea growers, a senior official of the state-owned enterprise said on
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onday.
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| Tea prices to stabilize in 2010 - FAO (Corrected) | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Tea prices reached record levels this year but should ease in 2010 as weather patterns returned to normal in the main tea-producing regions of Asia and Africa, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.
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| Tea prizes to stabilize in 2010 - FAO | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Tea prices reached record levels this year but should ea
se in 2010 as weather patterns returned to normal in the main tea-producing regi
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ns of Asia and Africa, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.
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| Gambian farmers receive EU support | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) â" The European Union (EU) has given assistance to Gambia
â?s groundnut farmers in form of equipment, under the 1.6 million euro project s
igned by EU and the tiny West African nation, government sources in Banjul confi
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med to PANA Thursday.
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| Experts to curb exploitation of aquatic animals | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - An advisory panel of independent experts, convened by th
e Food and Agriculture Orgnization (FAO), has made a number of recommendations t
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limit international trade in some commercially-exploited aquatic animals under
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he Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flo
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a (CITES).
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| Rwanda seeks US$ 300m to sustain agriculture | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Rwanda requires US$ 300 million in new investment
s in its agriculture to sustain the growth rate that it has achieved in the sect
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r as part of commitments made by African leaders to boost agriculture production
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President Paul Kagame said Thursday.
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| Benin moves to fight malnutrition | | Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - In a bid to reduce cases of malnutrition in the country,
the Beninese government has flooded the market with 'enriched edible oil and wh
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at flour', PANA learnt here on Friday from the Health ministry.
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| Cameroon detains 2 Chinese fishing boats for illegal fishing | | Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - Officers from Cameroon's National Maritime Control Bri
gade Thursday night boarded
two Chinese-registered fishing boats, both named "Les Da lian Yu 15027", about
100km off the port of Douala for
"illegal fishing", sources close to the brigade told PANA.
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| Rwanda calls for genuine action on African agriculture | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Africa has identified the Comprehensive Africa
Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) as the avenue for addressing the chall
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nges of food security, but both the donors and African governments are yet to fu
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fill their commitments to CAADP, Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Thursday at
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he start of a two day high-level meeting on CAADP in Kigali.
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| Rwanda calls for genuine action on African agriculture | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Africa has identified the Comprehensive Africa
Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) as the avenue for addressing the chall
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nges of food security, but both the donors and African governments are yet to fu
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fill their commitments to CAADP, Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Thursday at
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he start of a two day high-level meeting on CAADP in Kigali.
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| Food prices up again - FAO | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Global food prices are on the rise again with the FAO Fo
od Price Index, a food basket composed of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sug
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r 96 registering four straight monthly rises, the Food and Agriculture Organisa
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ion (FAO) said Wednesday.
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| Niger investigates food situation | | Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger's National Statistics Institute (INS) on Tuesday be
gan investigations into the food situation in the country with a view to finding
out how far households had remained vulnerable to food insecurity, official sour
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es told PANA here.
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| Groundnut price set at D8,500 as Gambia trade season begins | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Agribusiness Service and Producer Association (ASPA)
, responsible for the management of the Gambia groundnut sector, has fixed produ
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er price of the product at D8,500 per metric ton, a commission of D900 per metri
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ton for the 2009/10 groundnut marketing season.
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| Two agriculture bodies want end to hunger, poverty | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A second Green Revolution must be waged to end hunger an
d poverty in the dry lands, according to a joint statement from the Internationa
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Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Internatio
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al Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) made available to PANA in Lagos on F
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iday.
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| 'Rinderpest to be eradicated soon' | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - For the first time in history, humankind will succeed in
killing off an animal disease
when rinderpest is eradicated in the next 18 months, the Food and Agriculture Or
ganisation (FAO) said Monday.
30/11/2009 full text... |
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| African Swine plague kills 100,000 pigs in 3 years in Togo | | Lome, Togo (PANA) - African swine plague killed over 100,000 pigs over the
last three years in Togo, according to statistics released by Narcisse Litaaba-A
kila,
an official of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fishing
Mr. Litaaba-Akila disclosed these figures during a workshop on strategies for
a sustainable control of the swine plague in Africa, held this week at the
national agricultural training institute of Tove, located about 120km North-west
of Lome.
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| FAO ratifies treaty on illegal fishing | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said it h
ad approved a new treaty that aims to close
fishing ports to ships involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fis
hing.
27/11/2009 full text... |
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| Japan grants Burundi US$ 5 million to fight hunger | | Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Japan will grant Burundi US$ 5 million to help the c
ountry meet urgent needs in some of its districts gripped with acute food crisis
due to climate change, the Japanese Ambassador to Burundi, resident in Nairobi,
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r. Shiego Iwatani, said here on Wednesday.
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| FAO seeks stronger world food security | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organizationâ?s top governing
body has cleared the way for setting up a stronger and more effective system of
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lobal food security governance.
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| FAO, Libya seal co-operation deal on Food security | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Libya and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) wi
ll work closely together over the next five years to strengthen food security an
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sustainable development in the
country, the UN food and agriculture agency has said.
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| Spain moves to ease hunger in Horn of Africa | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Spain has taken the lead on World Food Programmeâ?s (WF
P) appeal for funds to tackle the persisting crisis of hunger in the Horn of Afr
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ca, WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said on Thursday after the Spanish go
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ernment announced a fresh donation of 75 million euros (US$ 112 million).
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| France grants WFP 1.5 mln euros for food aid in DRC | | Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The French ambassador to the Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC), Pierre Jacquemot, and the representative of the World Food Programm
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(WFP) in Kinshasa, Abdou Dieng, on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understandi
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g, worth 1.5 million euros, in a bid to strengthen the UN agency's efforts in pr
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viding food to victims of armed conflicts in the country.
19/11/2009 full text... |
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Famine hits Africa
