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28 Nov 2012

Small producer agency in the globalised market: Making choices in a changing world (November 2012)

Agriculture is still a small-farm story: half a billion farms of less than two hectares produce a significant proportion of the world’s food — estimated at over 90% in sub-Saharan Africa (iFPri...

26 Oct 2012

Land acquisitions: India’s investments in Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

In recent years, Africa has seen an increase in corporate and foreign Governments leasing or purchasing large areas of land in some of its poorest regions. These large-scale land acquisitions have...

21 Aug 2012

Primary health care implementation: A brief review

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

The goal of any health care system is to provide universal access to appropriate, efficient, effective and quality health services, in order to improve and promote people’s health. In most...

02 Aug 2012

Goats and reflexive modernisation: Reconciling economics, philosophy and the exigencies of Africa’s growth potential

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Africa’s population is growing, and will continue to grow rapidly over the coming decades, outpacing the world’s rate of population growth. The need for food is thus increasing in Africa at a...

10 Jul 2012

Global food security index reveals food-secure nations

FOOD SECURITY

The US, Denmark, France and the Netherlands are the most food secure countries in the world, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU’s) Global Food Security Index (GFSI) released on...

04 Jul 2012

Lessons from World Economic Forum on Africa: Investment opportunities, hotspots and pitfalls

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Looking back at the World Economic Forum on Africa one might conclude that the future for Africa is looking rather bright. However, issues of obstacles and pitfalls were obviously raised and it is...

04 May 2012

Still vulnerable

REAL ECONOMY: FOOD MARKETS

A section on global food markets contained within a special commodity markets feature in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) latest ‘World Economic Outlook’, published in April,...

05 Apr 2012

A review of food security implications of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Africa is particularly susceptible to the adverse impacts of climate change because about 95% of agricultural activities,(2) on which an estimated 70-80% of the continent’s population thrives,(3)...

05 Jan 2012

World Livestock 2011 – Livestock in food security (December 2011)

LIVESTOCK

Although much has been said about livestock’s role in achieving food security, in reality, the subject has been only partially addressed and no current document fully covers the topic....

21 Sep 2011

Moving towards an East African regional commodities market

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

On the 1st of July 2011, the East African Community (EAC) Secretary General, Dr. Richard Sezibera, and the Nicolas Berggruen Institute Senior Advisor, Ms. Jendayi Frazer, held discussions at the...

03 Jun 2008

Food summit blames trade barriers for high prices

INTERNATIONAL

The United Nations urged a summit on the global food crisis on Tuesday to help stop the spread of starvation threatening nearly 1 billion people by lowering trade barriers and removing export...

02 Feb 2008

SA: Mabudafhasi: World Wetlands Day (02/02/2008)

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Speech by Honourable Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Ms Rejoice Mabudafhasi on World Wetlands Day 2008 celebration, Walter Sisulu Square, SowetoTheme: Healthy Wetlands,...

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