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News on Food African2010-09-02 BBC News - Deadly riots in Mozambique over rising pricesDeadly Maputo clash over prices Mozambicans have seen the price of a loaf of bread rise by as much as 30 pct. as the value of the national currency, the metical, has fallen against the South African rand. Six people are reported killed in Mozambiques capital Maputo in riots over rising food and fuel prices.
2010-09-01 Brown returns to politics with a plea for famine-stricken Niger - Africa, World - The IndependentOne in six children are malnourished. In coming months the UN World Food Programme estimates 7. 9 million of Nigers 15. 3 million population will require emergency food. Josette Sheeran, its executive director, said: "The drought in Niger is an unfolding catastrophe for millions of people and we are struggling against time to scale up quickly enough to reach the escalating number of hungry. " Gordon Brown returns to front-line politics today, making an appeal for Britain to fund food aid to the landlocked African state of Niger where more than half the population face starvation. Gordon Brown returns to front-line politics today, making an appeal for Britain to fund food aid to the landlocked African state of Niger where more than half the population face starvation.
2010-08-31 Biofuels Firms Buy Up African Land, Cause Deforestation, Food Output Loss - BloombergJatropha can use up valuable water resources and require expensive pesticides, while in some cases diverting farmland away from food crops, Friends of the Earth said. Companies including D1 Oils say the non-edible plant is a promising crop for biofuels thats tolerant to drought and adaptable to different weather conditions. Chinese, Swiss, German, Nigerian, Ghanaian and Norwegian firms are also listed as land purchasers. Friends of the Earth recommended that African nations halt the land purchases, and that the EU scrap its biofuel target, which was intended as a measure to cut greenhouse gases and combat climate change. Biofuels companies from the U. K. to Brazil and China are buying up large swaths of Africa, causing deforestation and diverting land from food to fuel production, the environmental group Friends of the Earth said.
2010-08-29 AfricaNews - Malawi: AU leader hails Barack Obama - The AfricaNews articles of Mtheto LunguThe African Union chairperson and Malawi president, Bingu wa Mutharika, said Barak Obama managed to convince rich countries to change Africa food support policy. He said there was now a shift from supporting Africa with food aid to providing needs to self food sustenance. Today," he added, "We are a country that can feed itself. Africa can and will feed itself. Long ago rich countries used to give us food aid in terms of yellow maize and other foodstuffs. They told Africa it was ok to be hungry as they would provide the food aid. Not anymore," he added during the event that attracted over 80 local exhibitors and others from Zimbabwe. The most compelling interactive Africa community, sharing news, photos, weblogs, videos, mobile reports and the untold stories by African people.
2010-08-28 Eric Holt Gimenez: Monsanto in Gates Clothing The Emperors New GMOsThe first Director of AGRA was Gary Toenniessen, a career program officer for Rockefeller Foundation. He said AGRA was not ruling out GMOs and if and when they were introduced it would be with all the appropriate "safeguards. " After AGRA was criticized for not having any Africans, Kofi Anan was named Chairman in 2007. He first said GMOs were out of the picture, the next day he recapitulated. Last Spring, Joe DeVries, who runs the AGRA seed program was asked by a Worldwatch blogger if they were engaging in genetic engineering. " If you had any doubts about where the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is really placing its bets, AGRA Watchand no. 39;s recent announcement of the Foundationand no. 39;s investment of usd. 23. 1 million in 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock should put them to rest. Genetic engineering: full speed ahead. - Monsanto in gates clothing the emperors new gmos world
2010-08-27 Vitamin D and Cancer Link Could Be Good News. GatherA new study shows that Vitamin D could help fight cancer and other diseases. This could especially be beneficial to African Americans who tend to be Vitamin D deficient. The new study conducted by scientists from England and Canada showed Vitamin D works with the genes that are associated with come cancers and autoimmune diseases. Scientists are concluding that this means people may need even more Vitamin D than is currently recommended. As whites to produce the same amount of Vitamin D. So the further away from the equator African Americans live, the more Vitamin D deficient they will be. Many African American diseases could be linked to the Vitamin D deficiency. Therefore, correcting the deficiency could solve many problems. A new study shows that Vitamin D could help fight cancer and other diseases. This could especially be beneficial to African Americans - News health vitamin d and cancer vitamin d and african americans vitamin d deficiency african american vitamin d deficiency
2010-08-26 Ex-growth future likely for Southern African aluminium smelters - BHP BillitonOf Investec, who asked where BHP Billitons nongrowing Southern Africa aluminium smelters stand in view of the corporations reiteration of wanting to own only "expandable" growth assets. Gerrard also wanted a comment on the importance of the Southern African aluminium smelters compared with Worsley, which BHP Billiton also operates and partly owns and which incorporates a bauxite mine and alumina refinery in Australia, where BHP Billiton states that it is the largest corporate taxpayer at usd. 29-billion in the last six years. Southern Africas aluminium smelters appear to be heading for an ex-growth future. BHP Billiton CEO Marius Kloppers, who has announced a 16 pct. -higher usd. 12,5-billion profit for the worlds largest mining company in the 12 months to , indicates that new "ubiquitous" aluminium technology and changed consumption patterns are resulting in BHP Billiton de-emphasising the - BHP Billiton aluminium Marius Kloppers
2010-08-25 UPDATE: Discovery Holdings Takes 20 pct. Stake In Ping An HealthBEIJING (Dow Jones)--South African health care insurer Discovery Holdings Ltd. (DSY. JO) is taking a 20 pct. stake in Chinas Ping An Health Insurance Co. , the companies said Tuesday.
2010-08-22 BBC News - Niger food hoarding puts children at riskHoarders worsening Niger crisis Last week the UN World Food Programme said the West African state was facing the worst food crisis in its history. A food crisis in Niger is being made worse by hoarders who sell grain at prices beyond the reach of most people, Save the Children says. These traders are using market fluctuations to make a profit at the expense of ordinary people," said Josh Leighton, food security and livelihoods officer at Save the Children. They are helping to fuel the current food crisis and are putting hundreds of thousands of childrens lives at risk. " The lives of hundreds of thousands of children in Niger are being put at risk by grain hoarders, Save the Children says.
2010-08-18 UN: Aid Returns to Darfur IDP Camp East Africa EnglishThe forced absence from the southern Darfur camp began with a dispute between the government and the joint-U. N. -African Union peacekeeping mission, known as UNAMID, over the status of six camp leaders. The officials said Monday authorities in West Darfur asked the local head of the U. N. Food and Agricultural Organization and two top officials with the U. N. refugee agency to leave the state. Sudan has allowed humanitarian workers back into a Darfur camp for internally displaced people, after a nearly two-week absence the United Nations said led to dire conditions for the residents. - United Nations Red Cross aid workers Sudan Darfur El-Geneina and Zalingei ICRC Peacekeepers Africa FAO Sudan allows workers back
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