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'Sand dams' bank water for dry season in semi-arid Kenya

2013-02-20 11:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AlertNet: Barely a month after heavy rains pounded Kenya, many seasonal rivers in the country's semi-arid east are already drying up, and residents are preparing for the months-long dry season. But some, like Paul Masila and other members of the Woni Wa Mbee self-help group, are not worried about the looming dry spell. Instead, they are preparing to plant crops or are harvesting fields they planted before the rains. The group -- the name means "progressive vision' in Kamba, the local langage -- have...

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Intervene in Kenya sugar ban, government told

2013-02-19 07:46:40| Sugar Industry News

The Uganda National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UNCCI) has asked Comesa member states to intervene and investigate Kenya for violating the East African Community agreement

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Kenya: Cutting food waste crucial to ensuring food security, experts say

2013-02-13 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AlertNet: Sticking to what's written on your shopping list, checking food expiry dates, cooking just enough but no more and a few other simple practices can help curb global food waste, which amounts to 1.3 billion tonnes of food every year, experts say. This is vital at a time when climate change and population growth are reducing the availability of food for millions of vulnerable people around the world, they add. "With the World Bank warning of the possibility of a four-degrees-centigrade temperature...

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Kenya: Miller Accuses Nema of Blocking Sugar Factory

2013-02-10 06:37:34| Sugar Industry News

WEST Kenya Sugar Company has accused the National Environmental Management Authority (Nema) of frustrating efforts to put up a new sugar factory in Busia County.

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