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Agricultural policies in Africa could be harming the poorest
2016-02-09 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Agricultural policies aimed at alleviating poverty in Africa could be making things worse, according to research by the University of East Anglia (UEA). Published this month in the journal World Development, the study finds that so-called 'green revolution' policies in Rwanda -- claimed by the government, international donors and organisations such as the International Monetary Fund to be successful for the economy and in alleviating poverty -- may be having very negative impacts on the poorest....
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South Africa won't declare national disaster over drought
2016-02-07 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: South Africa will not declare a national disaster in response to its worst drought in a century as it hopes ample late rains will continue to improve the situation, deputy minister of agriculture Bheki Cele said on Sunday. "For some reason God has been kind and late rains did come, and we think the 6 million tonnes (of maize) we were looking to import - we have downgraded that to four," he told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of a conference in Dubai. The country's largest grain producer...
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M-Net unveils GoTV DTT service for South Africa
2016-02-03 17:10:43| Digital TV News
M-Net has unveiled its digital terrestrial television service for South Africa, called GOtv. GOtv will use digital network towers throughout South Africa and customers will need a decoder to access the signal.
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Charisma counts: Focus on great apes creates glaring research gaps in tropical Africa and Asia
2016-02-02 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] ANN ARBOR—Large national parks that are home to gorillas, chimpanzees and other great apes are focal points for much of the field research conducted in tropical Africa and Asia, resulting in crucial knowledge gaps and a biased view of broader conservation needs in those regions. Those are key findings from a new study by University of Michigan anthropologist Andrew Marshall and several colleagues. They used Google Scholar to determine what effect the presence of great apes ha…
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Jose Cuervo adds Tradicional Reposado to South Africa portfolio
2016-02-01 12:46:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Jose Cuervo has launched so-called "sipping" Tequila Jose Cuervo Tradicional Reposado in South Africa.
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