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 JOHANNESBURG, 16 March 2010 (IRIN Global) - The price of maize, sorghum, wheat and other staple grains is likely to climb again in many food-importing east African countries, agricultural economists warn.
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DRC: Bicycles needed to fight "tied legs" syndrome |  KINSHASA, 16 March 2010 (IRIN Africa) - Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are appealing for funds to combat a tropical disease associated with the consumption of insufficiently processed cassava in western Bandundu province, officials said.
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NEPAL: Ramping up the fight against child malnutrition |  KATHMANDU, 16 March 2010 (IRIN Asia) - Nepal is boosting efforts to tackle child malnutrition, which is so widespread that every other child under five has been found to be malnourished.
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NIGER: Experts explain why malnutrition is recurrent |  DAKAR, 15 March 2010 (IRIN Africa) - IRIN has asked a range of experts over the past year why malnutrition is recurrent in Niger even after decades of donor support and government programmes. Two of the hardest-hit regions were focused on - Diffa, which has borders Chad, and Zinder, which borders Nigeria.
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BANGLADESH: Salt-resistant paddy offers hope to farmers |  DHAKA, 15 March 2010 (IRIN Asia) - A new salt-resistant paddy - BRRI Dhan 47 - is offering hope to coastal farmers in southern Bangladesh whose crops are affected by climate change, say experts.
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SOMALIA: Without food and unable to bury the dead in Mogadishu |  NAIROBI, 15 March 2010 (IRIN Africa) - Five days of fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have left residents without food, cut off from their homes and unable to bury their dead, civil society leaders in the city said.
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GLOBAL: The impact of grey literature on climate projections |  JOHANNESBURG, 11 March 2010 (IRIN Global) - Most food crop cultivation in Africa is rain-fed, but climate change is affecting vital rainfall patterns and pushing up temperatures, diminishing yields that could halve in some countries by 2020. This warning has been widely quoted since it first appeared in a synthesis report for policy-makers in 2007 by the authoritative UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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NIGER: More needed to avoid catastrophe |  NIAMEY/ZINDER, 11 March 2010 (IRIN Africa) - A severe food and malnutrition crisis is looming in Niger, according to aid agencies. More than 20,000 under-five children are being treated for malnutrition nationwide and at least another 200,000 are at risk of severe malnutrition, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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KENYA: Hungry and HIV-positive in Nairobi's slums |  NAIROBI, 10 March 2010 (PlusNews Global) - Violet Tinah, 40, a resident of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is living with HIV and was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis, but her biggest problem today is not disease - but hunger.
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NIGER: Southern villages emptying as drought bites |  TANOUT, 10 March 2010 (IRIN Africa) - "Empty" increasingly describes villages around the southern Niger town of Tanout in Zinder Region: Water wells and pastures, fields and food banks - and slowly - entire villages, are emptying.
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