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<title>Agriculture Industry Today: North Africa Agriculture Trade News</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news/north-africa-agriculture-trade</link><description>Constantly updated news and information about agriculture industry.</description><item>
<title>India &apos;could lift rice export ban&apos;</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185382394</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 08:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of $1,080 a tonne in March. But Egypt has said it will end its ban  ...  spur the government to allow some exports. Farm Minister Sharad Pawar has said the government  ...  to be delivered to Nigeria and other African buyers, which helped prices,&apos; one exporter said.  ...
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<title>Gulf banks plan Islamic investment funds</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185356286</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 03:58 GMT</pubDate>
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...  rapid growth in the Middle East and North Africa lures billions in new investment. The consortium  ...  also building energy operations in places like Libya, said it would start a $2bn cement  ...
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<title>As Angola reaps oil wealth, many remain poor</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185347030</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 02:08 GMT</pubDate>
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...  revenues to invest in the country&apos;s once-prosperous farm sector. The other 12 parties in the  ...  said Alex Vines, the head of the Africa program at London-based think-tank Chatham House. &quot;The  ...  of oil, about the same reserves as Algeria, according to estimates by Edinburgh-based energy consulting  ...
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<title>Angola reaps oil wealth but many remain poor</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185340220</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 00:54 GMT</pubDate>
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...  revenues to invest in the country&apos;s once-prosperous farm sector. The other 12 parties in the  ...  said Alex Vines, the head of the Africa program at London-based think-tank Chatham House. &quot;The  ...  of oil, about the same reserves as Algeria, according to estimates by Edinburgh-based energy consulting  ...
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<title>Background Notes : Zambia (08/08)</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185338221</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 00:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  expectancy--37 years. HIV prevalence (15-49)--17%. Work force: Agriculture--75%; mining and manufacturing--6%; services--19%. Government Type: Republic.  ...  zinc, cut vegetables, cotton, tobacco. Major markets--South Africa, United Kingdom, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Japan. Imports--$2.7  ...  the African Union (AU) Summit in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt. In accordance with the constitution, Vice President  ...
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<title>Gulf banks launch investment firms</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185312918</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 21:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  specialised bank to finance infrastructure projects, an agriculture firm and a hospitality fund as rapid  ...  rapid growth in the Middle East and North Africa lures billions in new investment. The consortium  ...
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<title>Prysmian S.p.A.: Prysmian S.p.A., First Half 2008 Results</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185297104</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 19:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Greater Gabbard, the world&apos;s largest off-shore wind farm being built in the UK, which join  ...  an important contract was signed with the Libyan General Post &amp; Telecommunications Company to supply  ...  sales in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) reported 6.0% organic growth in the first  ...
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<title>Gulf banks launch three Islamic investment firms</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185276630</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 17:24 GMT</pubDate>
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...  rapid growth in the Middle East and North Africa lures billions in new investment. The consortium  ...  also building energy operations in places like Libya, said it would start a $2 billion  ...
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<title>Prysmian S.p.A., First Half 2008 Results</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185261924</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 15:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Greater Gabbard, the world&apos;s largest off-shore wind farm being built in the UK, which join  ...  an important contract was signed with the Libyan General Post &amp; Telecommunications Company to supply  ...  sales in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) reported 6.0% organic growth in the first  ...
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<title>UPDATE 3-Gulf banks launch three Islamic investment firms</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185244099</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 14:05 GMT</pubDate>
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...  specialised bank to finance infrastructure projects, an agriculture firm and a hospitality fund as rapid  ...  rapid growth in the Middle East and North Africa lures billions in new investment. The consortium  ...
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<title>UPDATE 2-Gulf banks launch three Islamic investment firms</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185241097</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 13:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  specialised bank to finance infrastructure projects, an agriculture firm and a hospitality fund as rapid  ...  rapid growth in the Middle East and North Africa lures billions in new investment. The consortium  ...
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<title>World Food Crisis (Part II: The Bad News -- and the Case of Africa)</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185133452</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 22:52 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Bad News -- and the Case of Africa) In spite of the unimaginable global transformations  ...  the unexpected climatic conditions being adverse to agriculture or at least agriculture in tropical Africa,  ...  advance investing in agriculture in other countries. Libya has been seeking farmland in the Ukraine,  ...
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<title>Will NYTimes Science Stoop To Propaganda?</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185125850</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 21:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  International Food and Information Council and GMO Africa Blog, just to name a few. Etherton  ...  been extremely successful in applying science to agriculture and we can afford to say, &amp;ldquo;Let&amp;rsquo;s  ...  the Middle East. Our recent interactions with Libya had science and technology as a centerpiece,  ...
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<title>Al Qudra to buy 400,000 hectares of farmland</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185117331</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 20:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  at a farm in the Nile Delta, Egypt. ABU DHABI // Al Qudra Holding, the  ...  of land in the Middle East, East Africa and Far East by the end of  ...  1,500 hectares of land in Morocco and Algeria. Within the next year, the business would  ...
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<title>Al Qudra to buy agricultural land in Asia, Africa and Middle East</title>
<link>http://agriculture.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185116453</link>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2008 20:49 GMT</pubDate>
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...  at a farm in the Nile Delta, Egypt. ABU DHABI // Al Qudra Holding, the  ...  of land in the Middle East, East Africa and Far East by the end of  ...  1,500 hectares of land in Morocco and Algeria. Within the next year, the business would  ...
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