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There are optimistic comments coming out of the three day African Green Revolution Forum organised by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and its partners taking place in Accra, Ghana’s capital.
Source: Reporting Development Africa Network
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The African Green Revolution Forum kicked off with optimism. Here, more than 800 people are participating in a three-day meeting to agree on a strategy for investment in African agriculture to enhance food security and drive economic growth.
Source: IPS
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Growing cocoa has become much more popular in Sierra Leone as a result of a combination of events that is strengthening the country's hand in the world cocoa market.
Source: Global Post
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Coordinated conservation measures to arrest the steep decline of stocks of Nile perch in Lake Victoria are showing encouraging results.
Source: IPS
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How the deadly carbon dioxide clouds of Lake Kivu, in Rwanda, will be harnassed for a greater good and a few other interesting stories about Rwanda's evil lake.
Source: Africa Review
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Following and filming the world's last mountain gorillas
Source: BBC News - Africa
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As land becomes scarce and food prices hit the roof, a new method of growing vegetables is fast gaining popularity in various parts of the country
Source: Daily Nation
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Sobering pictures of the disastrous floods in Niger.
Source: BBC
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Federal Government is fast- tracking the implementation of sound policies to promote the development of green energy projects.
Source: This Day
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Uganda’s tobacco industry is big. In 2009, the country exported 32,000 tons of tobacco leaves which fetched $57 million in revenue. The previous year, the industry exported 29,042 tons fetching $66 million
Source: The East African
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The international green activists’ campaign against construction of a highway in the Serengeti National Park has suffered a major blow — the head of state says the project will go on.
Source: The East African
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outh Africa's sugar output for the 2010/11 season is seen slightly lower than previously forecast.
Source: Reuters Africa
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Scientists have reversed the action of the humble herbal tea bag to purify water on a small scale. Instead of infusing water with flavour, a sachet sucks up toxic contamination when fitted into the neck of a water bottle.
Source: SciDev.Net
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This is a wonderful discovery; it could drastically change the water crises all over Africa.
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Coming soon to a shop near you - a genetically modified African banana...ahem...green pepper...no, banana. (It is controversial, but good news as the discovery might eradicate the feared Banana Wilt that costs the continent millions each year)
Source: http://www.allafrica.com
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And what illness will it create in our children a few years down the line, or the impact on the environment and animals?
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THE director of the Namibia Desert Environmental Education Trust (NaDEET), Victoria Keding, has called on environmental centres in the country to be role models in promoting environmental education.
Source: The Namibian
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Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica says her department is concerned about the impact of deteriorating water quality in the country.
Source: BuaNews
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The government has partly bowed to pressure from international organisations and rescinded its decision to pave a road running across the world-famous Serengeti National Park (Senapa).
Source: The Citizen
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The government should be focussed on sustaining and maintaining this ecosystem, instead of being a contributor to further agitation of this already weakened wildlife reserve.
by Juliet 4 weeks 1 day ago/18/
The rapid growth in the global demand for bushmeat is leaving many African species facing the possibility of being eaten out of existence...
Source: BBC
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WHILE SA faced water supply constraints and suffered from rainfall that was less than half the world average.
Source: Business Day
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A very interesting feature on the Venda people's fight to stop tourism development on their very beautiful land as it will disturb their intricately linked system of holy sites.
Source: Africa Review
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This seems like just another talk-fest with polititians mouthing empty promises in luxurious surroundings while lack of health care and education facilities continue to cripple many countries and corruption is still as high as ever.
by Tony 1 hour 54 minutes ago