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Kenya:
Agricultural Budget Out of Reach of Small-Scale Farmers
IPS, 23 September 2010
Although the majority of Kenyans are agricultural producers, only 3.6 percent of the country's national budget goes towards the sector. This falls severely short of government's… Read more »
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East Africa:
East Africa to Boost Potential of Cassava, Potato
SciDev.Net, 22 September 2010
An array of technologies that could propel cassava and potato into more potent poverty-fighting roles has opened up to smallholder farmers. Read more »
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Mali:
Cured Meat As a Cure
UNIRIN, 23 September 2010
Destocking weak animals has long been considered part of the emergency and recovery response to help pastoralists survive, and protect their livelihoods in droughts, but experts… Read more »
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Kenya:
Through Insurance, Farmers Reap Even After the Drought
Nation, 22 September 2010
Maize farmers have started insuring themselves against drought in the arid Mbeere District.Through the Kilimo Salama Insurance Programme, the farmers obtain insurance for farm… Read more »
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Africa:
World Hunger Drops Half a Percent
IPS, 16 September 2010
Ten years after setting the goal of halving the proportion of people suffering from poverty and hunger by 2015, only mixed success can be found for the U.N.'s Millennium… Read more »
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Malawi:
Can Micro-Finance Help Africa Meet the MDGs?
Gender Links, 21 September 2010
With only five years remaining until governments are to meet the targets set out by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the sub-Saharan Africa region continues to have the… Read more »
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Africa:
Rich Countries Urged to Step Up Aid to Africa
RFI, 20 September 2010
The United Nations and the OECD called Monday on rich nations to increase development aid to Africa, warning that it faces "steeper challenges" as a result of the global economic… Read more »
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Africa:
Summit Failure on Water, Sanitation Would Be Recipe for Disaster
IPS, 13 September 2010
A weeklong international conference here has transmitted a strong political message to next week's U.N. summit meeting of world leaders: what good is the fight against poverty,… Read more »
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Africa:
U.S. Secretary Kicks Off the 1,000 Days Movement to Fight Child Malnutrition
State Department, 22 September 2010
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking in New York City at the launch of an initiative to improve child nutrition: Read more »