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PRETORIA: AfriForum plans to assist a group of South African farmers with land in Zimbabwe this week to prevent a discriminatory investment agreement between the governments of South Africa and Zimbabwe, which is to be signed in Harare on Friday, 27 November 2009. 24 Nov 2009 08:18
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ROME: Libya and the FAO plan to work closely together over the next five years to strengthen food security and sustainable development in the country. 23 Nov 2009 07:29
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ROME: The assistant secretary-general of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Domingos Caholo, has called for an institutional reform in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to ensure better implementation of its programmes. 23 Nov 2009 07:13
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[Gregory Gondwe] The government's decision to devalue the local currency, the Malawi Kwacha, last week has sparked fears that it might affect interest and inflation rates. 20 Nov 2009 11:54
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[Dumisani Ndlela] For Zimbabweans, Christmas has of late never been this merry: over the past decade, they have had to battle a hyperinflationary crisis that made it impossible to budget for festivities, while retailers shunned festive season indulgences for customers. Then there were empty shelves to contend with over the last two years. 20 Nov 2009 11:49
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PRETORIA: South Africa is looking forward to working with Nigerian businesses to further open up trade opportunities and allow investment to grow between the two countries, says Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe. 17 Nov 2009 10:16
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A Chinese centre for research and transfer of agricultural technology is set to open in Mozambique in early 2010. The facility will use China's farming expertise to boost the African country's agricultural productivity by improving cultivation methods and training local scientists and farmers. 13 Nov 2009 10:08
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Pervasive high food prices are putting millions of people in dozens of poor countries at risk of critical food insecurity, according to the United Nations. 12 Nov 2009 08:09
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Sales of Somali livestock have seen a sudden increase over the past few days since Saudi Arabia lifted a nine-year ban on imports of the kind from Somalia last week. 12 Nov 2009 08:06
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[Dumisani Ndlela] Zimbabwe's retailers, which had withdrawn credit facilities due to a hyperinflationary crisis, have brought back the credit terms for retail customers. 10 Nov 2009 07:27
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The International Growth Centre (IGC), directed and organised by the London School of Economics (LSE) and Oxford University, will host their first Africa-focused session on 13 November 2009 at the annual African Economic Conference (AEC). 10 Nov 2009 07:13
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JOHANNESBURG: The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has been feeding people in Lesotho since 1965, yet the tiny mountain kingdom is still not much closer to achieving food self-sufficiency. Time to overhaul the approach, aid agencies say. 9 Nov 2009 12:30
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CAIRO: A new report released by the World Bank's Middle East and North Africa (MNA) region, From Privilege to Competition: Unlocking private-led growth in the Middle East and North Africa, has found that the private sector is not yet generating enough jobs and sustaining higher growth in the region. 9 Nov 2009 07:21