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<title>Agriculture Industry Today: Africa Farm Subsidies News</title>
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<title>Stop the war on poor families</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185718576</link>
<pubDate>30 Aug 2008 06:36 GMT</pubDate>
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...  delays, price hikes, and renewable-energy mandates and subsidies. They will produce little or no new energy. Wind farms with hundreds of gargantuan, unreliable turbines have  ...  vote on our energy and economic future. Niger Innis is national spokesman for the Congress  ...
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<title>Kenya: Value Addition the Key editorial</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185715971</link>
<pubDate>30 Aug 2008 06:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  is another example of the tendency by African leaders to prefer talking to taking action.  ...  that are hurting the continent such as subsidies to farmers in the donor countries, export conditionalities and  ...
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<title>Africa aid effort targets fertiliser supply costs</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185664977</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 23:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  costs of fertiliser and seed to small farmers in Africa by making supply channels more efficient could  ...  to create a global fund for African agriculture at the World Bank. &quot;The actual funding  ...
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<title>SA sugar industry a significant contribution to economy, Deputy Minister</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185618291</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 18:07 GMT</pubDate>
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... The South African sugar industry is a national asset, Deputy  ...  promotion of black economic-empowerment (BEE) in the agricultural sector. The Inkezo Land Company, operated as  ...  contribution from government in the form of subsidies, but is supported through the import tariff,  ...
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<title>Africa: Invest in Food Crops, Continent Told</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185584412</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 12:12 GMT</pubDate>
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... Posted to the web 29 August 2008 African MPs called for increased investment in agriculture to ensure food security on the continent.  ...  treaties governing international trade to &quot;allow African farmers to compete effectively with those from the  ...
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<title>Uganda: Smart Protectionism opinion</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185584406</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 12:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  where we talked about the future of farming in Uganda. &quot;By farming smarter,&quot; he said,  ...  slogan; it is the key to modernising African agriculture. An advocate of food self-sufficiency for  ...  are working in Uganda - and in Nigeria, where rice output is also soaring -  ...
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<title>Germans to modernise Ghana&apos;s railways system</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185569726</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 09:23 GMT</pubDate>
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...  partners sincere commitment in their dealings with Africa. Responding to a toast at a state  ...  the international market through the removal of farm subsidies. Earlier, President Kohler praised President Kufuor for  ...
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<title>Germans offer to assist modernise Ghana&apos;s railways system</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185552095</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 05:10 GMT</pubDate>
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...  partners sincere commitment in their dealings with Africa. Responding to a toast at a state  ...  the international market through the removal of farm subsidies. Earlier, President Kohler praised President Kufuor for  ...
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<title>No organic for me, please</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185509899</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 22:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  vegetables and cereals soaked in them. Intensive farming was harmful to soils and beasts alike.  ...  a year. Food riots have erupted in Africa and Haiti. The United Nations held a  ...  that organic farming is &quot;a waste of agricultural land in times when the world needs  ...
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<title>Canal, new reservoirs not needed</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185498502</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 21:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to 90 percent of it used for agriculture. The cheap and ecological answer is simple:  ...  is simple: conservation and reduced financial water subsidies. Conservation of just 10 percent of water  ...  fly the flags of other nations (including Libya and Cuba) along with the U.N. flag,  ...
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<title>Who Needs NATO? Or the WTO?</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185460040</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 16:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  offered during the Doha talks, to liberalize farm subsidies worldwide was simply slapped down. &quot;Global economic  ...  would pull in India, Southeast Asia and Africa. Security arrangements, says Bergsten, might grow out  ...
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<title>Kenya: MPs Call for Increased Investment in Agriculture</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185449064</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 15:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Nairobi has called for increased investment in Agriculture to ensure food security on the continent.  ...  existing treaties governing international trade to &quot;allow African farmers to compete effectively with those from the  ...
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<title>Southern Africa: Maize May Suffer From High Input Costs</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185379978</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 07:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  High fertiliser and fuel prices in South Africa may impact the 2009/2010 maize harvest in  ...  in the region&apos;s largest producer, a grain farmers&apos; body warned. &quot;The high costs will influence  ...  and Markets Division at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome. &quot;The vulnerability of  ...
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<title>Kenya to push for better trading terms</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185363588</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 04:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  meeting in Mombasa, Njiru noted that Sub-Saharan Africa had continued lagging behind in international trade.  ...  the developed countries over the removal of farm subsidies and tariffs. ...
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<title>Insight: The global spending spree has hit a brick wall</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185359846</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 04:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Poland, coupled with the soaring energy and agricultural wealth of states in the Middle East, Africa and South America, personal consumption in the  ...  roll back, albeit slowly, fuel and food subsidies. The latter have been critical in shielding  ...
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