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		<title>Trees &#8220;vital for food security&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, 28 August 2009 (IRIN) &#8211; Countries tackling food insecurity and climate change adaptation can greatly benefit from agroforestry &#8211; integrating fleshy plants and trees into their farming systems, environmental specialists say.
Sub-Saharan Africa has a history of food insecurity brought on by meagre rains, land degradation, declining soil fertility and bad management of resources, among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN Expert Group Meeting: Sustainable Agriculture in Africa</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the poor of the world, improved agricultural productivity and reduced land degradation is vital. The United Nations, the World Bank, and other bodies are currently making tremendous investments in African agriculture. How researchers can contribute to ensuring that these resources are put to best use was the main question for the expert group meeting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Towards sustainable agriculture for developing countries: options from life sciences and biotechnologies</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discussion Platform, Brussels, 30-31 January, 2003
Q. What are the background and objectives of this event?
The need to increase crop yields in developing countries in a sustainable manner, in order to meet the increasing demand for food. The objective is to listen to all points of view and assess how life sciences and biotechnology can foster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infestations of Aquatic Weeds in Africa</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[All across Africa there are infestations of aquatic weeds clogging the waterways, and sucking the land dry. Typha, Phragmites, water hyacinth and others are using up the water that the people need. They are also blocking drainage, and so causing flooding. They are also breeding grounds for many pests and diseases. Their clearance and control would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Agriculture Pushing Back the Desert</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Desertification – land degrading into desert – is often blamed on mismanagement and misuse of land. Local people are allegedly guilty of over-farming, over-grazing and allowing their populations to exceed the environment’s capacity. Lim Li Ching contests this myth, describing how local farmers in arid Africa are using innovative means to farm productively without destroying the environment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portraits of Sustainable Agriculture Projects and Initiatives in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is part of the &#8220;47 Portraits of Sustainable Agriculture Projects and Initiatives&#8221; originally published by Centre for Environment and Society of University of Essex, UK. You can click here to read the full article which includes portraits from Asia and Latin America. Below is the &#8220;Portrait of Sustainable Agriculture Projects and Initiatives in Africa&#8221;.
1. Benin: Mucuna (velvetbean) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Agriculture in Africa: Towards A New Paradigm – The Embeddedness Approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a paper written by
Cosmas Milton Obote Ochieng
International Development Centre
Queen Elizabeth House
Oxford University, UK.
An excerpt from the paper
Introduction
This paper argues that the conventional paradigm of sustainable agriculture1{SA} in Africa
has disenfranchised smallholder farmers as researchers and principal actors in the pursuit of
answers to this question. Many scientists, agricultural research institutions and policymakers
in Africa have conceptualised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to do to Eradicate Hunger in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark Yak Yak &#8211; Posted on ProgressiveU on April 27th, 2007

In African countries millions of poor people go to their beds hungry every day. The live has become more difficult for them, because they have no resources available to cater for their wellbeings. As a result, most of people ask themselves about what to do to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing Farmer Incomes through Reforms of Irrigated Agriculture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Working out a Sustainable Agriculture in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Perhaps, pictures like this may strike your heart, this is one of millions of children in Africa suffering from diseases related to malnutrition. Although it has abundant natural resources, Africa remains the world&#8217;s poorest and most underdeveloped continent, due largely to the effects of: tropical diseases, the slave trade, corrupt governments, failed central planning, the [...]]]></description>
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