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'You Can’t Eat Electricity': Why tackling inequality and hunger should be at the heart of low carbon development in South Africa (June 2013)

ELECTRICITY

How can low carbon development be pursued without making inequality and food insecurity worse? South Africa, like many middle income countries, faces the challenge of how to reduce greenhouse gas...

WWF: Statement by the World Wide Fund for Nature, conservation organisation, supports World Environment Day’s ‘waste not, want not’ message (05/06/2013)

STATEMENT

In recognition of World Environment Day’s (WED’s) anti-food waste and food loss campaign, WWF South Africa (WWF-SA) is calling on South Africans to become more discerning in their food...

SA: Statement by the African Centre for Biosafety, non profit organisation, G8 "Hunger Summit" initiative rejected by African civil society (03/06/2013)

STATEMENT

At the heart of the leading initiatives to “modernise” African agriculture is a drive to open markets and create space for multinationals to secure profits. Green revolution technologies –...

Daily podcast – May 28, 2013.

PODCAST

South African Reserve Bank data has shown that South Africa's banks have cooled the pace of unsecured lending amid fears of rising impairments from weak growth in the continent's top economy. The...

'What is a House without Food?': Mozambique’s Coal Mining Boom and Resettlements (May 2013)

HUMAN RIGHTS

This 122-page Human Rights Watch report (summary available for download above) examines how serious shortcomings in government policy and mining companies’ implementation uprooted largely...

Food insecurity slows Africa’s progress on development goals

AFRICA DEVELOPMENT

While Africa is the world’s second-fastest growing region, its rate of poverty reduction is insufficient to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving extreme poverty and hunger by...

AU/UNDP: Statement by the African Union and the United Nations Development Programme, Africa making great strides toward many Millennium Development Goals, yet serious challenges remain (27/05/2013)

STATEMENT

Released today, The MDG Report 2013: Assessing progress in Africa toward the Millennium Development Goals concludes that while Africa is the world’s second fastest growing region, its rate of...

Addressing emerging environmental issues in 21st century Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Africa, the world’s poorest continent and plagued by high population growth rates, is predicted to make significant economic gains over the next decade.(2) A study commissioned by the...

IIED: Statement by the International Institute for Environment and Development, independent policy research institute, report warns of ways climate change threatens food security of urban poor (28/03/2013)

STATEMENT

Policies to increase food security in the global South focus too much on rural food production and not enough on ensuring poor people can access and afford food, especially in urban areas, says a...

IFAD: Statement by the International Fund for Agricultural Development, poverty alleviating organisation, on election of IFAD president (11/02/2013)

STATEMENT

Against the backdrop of a world confronted with unprecedented challenges of food insecurity, volatile food prices, climate change and financial instability, representatives of 169 Member States of...

Africa’s green revolution: Experiences from India and the use of genetically modified organisms

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

There has been a renewed effort by the international community to transform Africa’s agricultural practices. This campaign comes amid growing concern over widespread hunger and poverty throughout...

Food security: What does this mean for Africa?

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Food security is a challenge in both the developing and the developed world; the difference lies in the magnitude of the problem and the proportion of the population that is affected.(2) Within...

Blue industrialisation: Issues in aquaculture and Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

A hallmark of modernity is the mastery of nature by man to fulfil needs, and the harnessing of technology to overcome the problem of scarcity.(2) Innovations in agriculture thousands of years ago...

WB: Statement by the World Bank, asserts that urgent action on climate change is needed in the Arab world (05/12/2012)

STATEMENT

The impact of climate change will be especially acute in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, according to a new World Bank Group report, and immediate action will be needed to avoid the...

SA: Grizelda Cjiekella: Address by the Acting Premier of the Northern Cape, on the occasion of the World Aids Day commemoration, Ritchie, Frances Baard District, Northern Cape (01/12/2012)

SPEECH

I am greatly honoured to welcome you here today in keeping the candle of hope and compassion burning and as well as the promise that we have made that we will defeat HIV and Aids. Today as we...

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