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ALL AFRICA | Gambia River Basin Development Organisation Natural Resource Development And Project Management | December 16, 2002
The objective of the project is to increase agro-forestry and pastoral output, rationalise tapping of the natural resources and improve the infrastructures and social services of the project area. It also seeks to reduce poverty on a sustainable basis and improve the living conditions of the population within the project circuit.
ALL AFRICA | Fading Hope for Children Hit By Drought | December 1, 2002
At the tender age of seven Nuria Ibrahim shouldn't have to worry about starvation or death. But like many children in Ethiopia she soon learnt the harsh realities of life in one of the poorest countries in the world.
ALL AFRICA | Poverty-Busting Project Could Also Benefit Wildlife | November 15, 2002
A pioneering new project to heal dying and degraded lands fringing Africa's mighty deserts was launched on November 11 by the United Nations Environment Programme UNEP and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CGIAR.
ALL AFRICA | Lions "Killing Cattle in Caprivi" | October 14, 2002
A HANDFUL of cattle in the Caprivi have been devoured by lions whose hunting grounds straddle Namibia, Zambia, Angola and Botswana, a source at the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) told The Namibian on Friday.
ALL AFRICA | New Farmers Set to Own Wildlife Resources | September 26, 2002
PEASANTS settled by the government on Zimbabwean game conservancies under its controversial land reforms could end up owning the money-spinning wildlife if a proposed wildlife policy is approved by the government, it was established this week.
ALL AFRICA | Away With Genetically Modified Organisms, They Say | September 5, 2002
History was made in Room 2 of the Buffalo Hall at Nasrec Expo Centre last week Thursday, when for the first time in the history of a world summit, small farmers from around the world made their voices heard and revealed their frustrations, problems and expectations to the outside world.
ALL AFRICA | Away With Genetically Modified Organisms, They Say | September 5, 2002
History was made in Room 2 of the Buffalo Hall at Nasrec Expo Centre last week Thursday, when for the first time in the history of a world summit, small farmers from around the world made their voices heard and revealed their frustrations, problems and expectations to the outside world.
ALL AFRICA | Away With Genetically Modified Organisms, They Say | September 5, 2002
History was made in Room 2 of the Buffalo Hall at Nasrec Expo Centre last week Thursday, when for the first time in the history of a world summit, small farmers from around the world made their voices heard and revealed their frustrations, problems and expectations to the outside world.
ALL AFRICA | Away With Genetically Modified Organisms, They Say | September 5, 2002
History was made in Room 2 of the Buffalo Hall at Nasrec Expo Centre last week Thursday, when for the first time in the history of a world summit, small farmers from around the world made their voices heard and revealed their frustrations, problems and expectations to the outside world.
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ALL AFRICA | Away With Genetically Modified Organisms, They Say | September 5, 2002
History was made in Room 2 of the Buffalo Hall at Nasrec Expo Centre last week Thursday, when for the first time in the history of a world summit, small farmers from around the world made their voices heard and revealed their frustrations, problems and expectations to the outside world.
ALL AFRICA | Food And Sustainable Development - A Roundtable | August 27, 2002
Approximately 80 percent of Africa's population is engaged in some form of agriculture - mostly subsistence. But despite this great presence on the land, food security has remained elusive. On August 26 the UN Food and Agriculture Organization released a report saying that 21 African countries face "food emergencies" and millions of people are on the brink of starvation.
ALL AFRICA | Mt Kenya Water Diverted | August 23, 2002
Water levels in rivers flowing from Mount Kenya have drastically reduced, creating a shortage of the commodity. Central provincial water engineer Tom Ogola yesterday said rivers supplying the semi-arid Laikipia District were the most affected.
ALL AFRICA | Leaders Must Take Action at WSSD to Curb Climate Change in Africa | August 21, 2002
The choices that world leaders make on energy at the upcoming Earth Summit will have widespread implications for biodiversity, water supply and food security in Africa, according to a new report from World Wildlife Fund.
ALL AFRICA | Deforestation Hits Buhera | August 17, 2002
RBRICK-moulding in some parts of Buhera has led to extensive deforestation as moulders indiscriminately cut down trees. Thick forests which used to cover homesteads in Chief Makumbe's area only a few years ago have disappeared.
ALL AFRICA | Some 50,000 Farmers May Abandon Farmland to Sand Dunes | August 6, 2002
At least, 50,000 farmers in about 100 villages scattered along the desert fringes of Yobe State are at the risk of abandoning this year's farming season due to the forced occupation of their farmlands by sand dunes.
ALL AFRICA | Major Factors of Forest Degradation And Problems Towards Sustainable Management | July 26, 2002
RAbout a century ago, most of Gambian forest cover was categorised as closed dense forest of the Guinea-Savannah and Sudan-Savannah types. However, with the increasing human population since in the early 50's, the equilibrium that ever existed started declining at a steadily faster rate. This was due to the unsustainable utilisation of the forests such as the extraction of wood and non-wood products, expansion of agricultural activities and frequent incidences of fire.
ALL AFRICA | Recrudescence of Conflicts Between Baboons And Some Communities in CRD South | May 3, 2002
Reports on clashes between baboon and some communities in LRD that was followed by the publication of numerous letters and articles in your paper advancing temporary or permanent conflict resolution strategies are still fresh in the minds of many people.
ALL AFRICA | Food-for-Work Plan Launched | May 3, 2002
A food-for-work programme is to be started in West Pokot District following the discontinuation of emergency food supplies to famine-stricken residents.
ALL AFRICA | Youths Make Inroads Into Poultry, Horticulture | April 30, 2002
The Youth Agricultural Extension Service has made significant inroads into horticulture and poultry business.
ALL AFRICA | Rural Communities Need to Benefit From Wildlife | April 29, 2002
The Southern African Development Community should assist rural communities in the member states to contribute to economic growth by fully participating in wildlife activities.
ALL AFRICA | Proper Land Management to Insure Poverty Alleviation | April 26, 2002
Scholars attending the three-day workshop organized by the international Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) under the theme 'Reducing Hunger, Poverty and Environmental Degradation in the Highlands' said that proper land management is an important instrument to fight poverty.
ALL AFRICA | Combating Desertification And Deforestation | April 23, 2002
The alarming speed at which the Sahara Desert is devastating Nigeria's lands and forest is no longer any news to all the tiers of government. In fact, it is also no news to those our compatriots whose source of livelihood is daily threatened by the menace.
ALL AFRICA | Concern Over Livestock Health | April 19, 2002
Agriculture Minister, Dr Bonaya Godana has called for concerted efforts in tackling increased diseases among pastoral communities' livestock.
ALL AFRICA | Rural Folk Need Incentives to Preserve Wildlife | April 4, 2002
RURAL landowners, communities and villagers should be given incentives to encourage them to preserve wildlife, Safari Club International director of wildlife conservation, Mr Rick Parsons said.
ALL AFRICA | Farmers Advised to Consider Wildlife | March 25, 2002
SOME commercial farms acquired for resettlement in dry and marginal areas will be more productive if they are used for wildlife by the resettled communities as this will also redress serious imbalances in the tourism sector, the Minister of Environment and Tourism, Cde Francis Nhema said last Friday.
CNN | Study: Trace amounts of chemicals in streams | March 13, 2002
A government survey of 139 streams in 30 states turned up small quantities of a host of manmade chemicals, including antibiotics, other prescription drugs, veterinary drugs, hormones, steroids and fire retardants.
ALL AFRICA | Life Saving System Launched in Somali Region | March 1, 2002
For the pastoralists living in Somali Region, it will be a lifesaver. When the famine struck in 2000, tragically it was the rapidly escalating toll of death that finally alerted the world to the crisis. But a British Aid Agency is now at the forefront of a system that will act as the eyes and ears of the international community and raise the alarm to any future crisis.
ALL AFRICA | KWS Told To Rein In Rogue Elephants | February 19, 2002
Residents of Makueni District have appealed to the Kenya Wildlife Service to control elephants which have destroyed property worth millions of shillings.
ALL AFRICA | Serengeti Lion Population Rises By Over 1,000 | February 18, 2002
THE NUMBER of lions in the Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania has been increasing steadily since an outbreak of the cauche distemper virus killed up to 1,000 lions in 1999.
BBC NEWS | Farming faces major shake-up
| January 29, 2002
A "watershed" report into food production and farming in England has called for reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy, arguing the current situation is unsustainable.
BBC NEWS | Wary welcome for farming report | January 29, 2002
Farmers have given a cautious welcome to a UK Government report on the future of English farming which urges them to become "guardians of the countryside".
BBC NEWS | Ethiopia's forests face extinction | January 17, 2002
Ethiopia could have no natural forests left by 2020, according to the author of a new UN report on forest fires in Ethiopia.