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AFRICA: New round in the GM crop debate
13 February 2008
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Once heralded as an environmentally friendly “silver bullet” in the fight against poverty and hunger, genetically-modified (GM) crops today generate huge controversy over their safety and impact.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/76728/AFRICA-New-round-in-the-GM-crop-debate
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Thirty percent less maize by 2030
8 February 2008
(IRIN
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As global warming pushes temperatures up and droughts become more intense, the production of maize, southern Africa's staple food, could drop by as much as 30 percent in another two decades, according to a new study.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/76652/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-Thirty-percent-less-maize-by-2030
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GLOBAL: LifeStraw water purifier grows into family size
4 February 2008
(IRIN
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LifeStraw began when a young Danish graduate, whose family owned a small textile company, took a trip in the 1990s around Africa, where contaminated water claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year. Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen started to think how he could put the family company to good use for the people of Africa. The result was LifeStraw, a cheap, portable personal water purifier, cited by Forbes Magazine in 2006 as “one of the 10 things that will change the way we live”.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/76548/GLOBAL-LifeStraw-water-purifier-grows-into-family-size
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GLOBAL: Good early nutrition can make you richer
1 February 2008
(IRIN
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Eating nutritious food at an early age will not only ensure a source of income as an adult but also better pay, according to a study published in the current issue of The Lancet, a leading British medical journal.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/76527/GLOBAL-Good-early-nutrition-can-make-you-richer
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GLOBAL: Doomsday seed vault for food security
31 January 2008
(IRIN
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Should a major catastrophe hit the planet, a doomsday seed vault deep in the Arctic ice will ensure that survivors never go hungry.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/76507/GLOBAL-Doomsday-seed-vault-for-food-security
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BOTSWANA: Extremely dangerous TB strain detected
21 January 2008
(IRIN
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Two cases of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) have been confirmed in Botswana, health officials said.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/76348/BOTSWANA-Extremely-dangerous-TB-strain-detected
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GLOBAL: Space gears up for climate change study
17 January 2008
(IRIN
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A record 17 satellites are to be launched in 2008 in the largest-ever concerted global effort to monitor the impact of climate change over the next few decades, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which is leading the initiative.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/76300/GLOBAL-Space-gears-up-for-climate-change-study
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GLOBAL: Fund launched for poor countries struggling with high food prices
14 January 2008
(IRIN
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a multi-million dollar fund for import-dependent poor countries to help adapt their farming industries quickly to cope with galloping global food prices.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/76225/GLOBAL-Fund-launched-for-poor-countries-struggling-with-high-food-prices
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GLOBAL: Even simple tech helps reduce poverty
13 January 2008
(IRIN
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Asia's "green revolution" is a dramatic example of how even modest technological advances in developing countries have helped boost incomes and reduce the number of people living in poverty, according to the World Bank's Global Economic Prospects 2008 report, subtitled Technology Diffusion in the Developing World.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/76211/GLOBAL-Even-simple-tech-helps-reduce-poverty
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GLOBAL: Don't impose food price controls, warns World Bank
9 January 2008
(IRIN
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Food prices have risen nearly 75 percent within a decade and will continue to do so, hurting the poor, warned the World Bank's annual Global Economic Prospects 2008, which suggested that governments ease control over food prices and provide targeted safety nets.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/76162/GLOBAL-Don-t-impose-food-price-controls-warns-World-Bank
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