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CARE International launches food security programme Business Ghana, 30 November 2009 Accra: CARE International has launched a 15-year “Agriculture and Food Security Programme” for the Northern Savanna Zone to improve food security in the area. The Savanna Zone comprised northern Ghana, parts of Brong Ahafo and Volta Regions... NZ farmers want to be excluded from ETS Otago Daily Times, 30 November 2009 Dunedin: The Government appears to have put to one side the specifics of how agriculture will fit in to the emissions trading scheme (ETS) as it focuses on integrating other parts of the economy. Federated Farmers was forced recently to concede defeat in its battle to exclude the sector from the ETS, with the Government passing an amendment Bill that offered concessions of a longer phase-in period before agriculture meets the full cost of its emissions... American farmers must step up on climate change Des Moines Register, 30 November 2009 Des Moines: Next month, I travel to Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change Negotiations with two Drake agricultural law students. We are part of the Iowa UN Association delegation going to witness the international talks on possibly the most significant environmental, social and political issue shaping our futures... Kenyan tea producers battle climate change AlertNet, 1 December 2009 Meru: Michimukuru's tea is considered top quality on the world market. From the remote hills of Meru, 300 kilometers (187 miles) northeast of Kenya's capital of Nairobi, packets of tea bags find space on the shelves of London's top supermarkets. And for the 9,000 farmers in Michimikuru, tea is almost the sole source of household income and one of the East African country's major cash crops... Lake Victoria meeting fails to address key resource concerns The East African, 1 December 2009 Nairobi: Despite talks to jointly harness shared resources for regional economic development, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania are yet to resolve key issues surrounding the management of Lake Victoria. Water excavation, overfishing and the Migingo question continue to pose a challenge even as the region celebrates 10 years of co-operation... IFAD chief says climate change threat is very real The Hindu, 1 December 2009 New Delhi: “The threat of climate change and its impact on agriculture is real. We have evidence that by 2025 in some parts of the world including India, parts of Asia and parts of Africa, crop yields will drop from anything between 20 and 40 per cent from rise in temperatures. Large parts of land will become so bad that it would no longer be good for agriculture and new diseases and pests would come up... Rich world should pay Africa to preserve forests Reuters, 1 December 2009 Yaounde: The developed world should pay African countries to preserve their vast forests to help the fight against climate change, some of the continent's governments will argue at next month's summit in Copenhagen... Livestock farmers on climate change front line Farmers Guardian, 1 December 2009 London: The English Beef and Lamb Executive (Eblex) has launched an ambitious climate change strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector. Eblex presented its document, ‘Change in the Air: The English Beef and Sheep Production Roadmap’, to industry leaders and Government representatives in Westminster... Climate change, food security represent a dual challenge: FAO Xinhua, 2 December 2009 Rome: Tackling climate change and ensuring food security represent a dual challenge and thus require a unique solution, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) urged in a policy brief issued on Tuesday... Even island states can make plans to improve food security Inter Press Service, 2 December 2009 Port Louis: Eric Mangar deplores the fact that Mauritius, despite being a net food importer, has failed to learn its lessons from the food crisis. The island state is pursuing “business as usual” without taking steps to improve food production on the local front. Mangar is the manager of the Movement for Food Self-Sufficiency, which was set up as a non-governmental organisation (NGO) for agricultural development in 1981... Climate change fuels rural out-migration, rising farm debt Inter Press Service, 2 December 2009 Bhubaneswar: Under a shed made of bamboo and corrugated sheet metal, Purusottam Sur feeds his two bullocks and a cow with a bundle each of dry paddy plant. A fifth of his five-acre paddy harvest will be used only as cattle feed; the rice seeds just did not develop because of untimely rains this monsoon... Climate agreement must support shift toward sustainable agriculture Common Dreams, 3 December 2009 Minneapolis: To effectively address global climate change, policy solutions must support a transition toward more sustainable agriculture systems that recognize the critical role agriculture plays in the world, concludes a series of issue briefs released today by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)... Ten reasons for farmers to support action against global warming Centre for American Progress, 3 December 2009 This week, the US House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research is conducting welcome hearings on the potential economic impacts of climate change on the farm sector. Farmers already know firsthand the threat posed by extreme weather to rural livelihoods and the nation's food and energy supplies... Gabon eyes forest deal to boost state coffers Reuters, 3 December 2009 Libreville: Gabon is aiming for an annual revenue boost of hundreds of millions of dollars a year by using its forests to reap carbon credits, a top official said, but any windfall will depend on this month's Copenhagen climate talks. Three quarters covered by rainforests and part of the lush Congo Basin region, the central African nation has long exported oil but its reserves are dwindling and newly-elected President Ali Ben Bongo is under pressure to seek new sources of revenue... Brazil wants limits on use of tropical trees for carbon credits Bloomberg, 3 December 2009 Berlin/Rio de Janeiro: Brazil, whose Amazonia rainforest is the biggest in the world, wants a new climate agreement to limit the use of forests to slow global warming, putting a crimp on investors hoping to create carbon credits from trees. South America's largest economy will make the forestry proposal at next week's climate summit in Copenhagen, where about 190 countries are trying to establish new reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions, Environment Minister Carlos Minc said... Maasai: “We are a harbinger of what is to come” Inter Press Service, 4 December 2009 Copenhagen: A small group of indigenous people have travelled here to the historic Copenhagen climate talks to show negotiators dramatic documentary videos they made about the immediate impacts of climate change on their homelands and way of life. “We want to show policymakers what the three-year long drought in my country is doing to our communities,” said Stanley Selian Konini, a Maasai from Oltepesi in Kajiado district, Kenya... Risk insurance and climate change Inter Press Service, 4 December 2009 Montevideo: The catastrophic risk insurance shared by the countries of the Caribbean could serve as a model for collective strategies for dealing with natural disasters resulting from climate change, John Nash, the World Bank's lead economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, told Tierramèrica... Africa to use climate change for sustainable development Xinhua, 4 December 2009 Lagos: Climate change risks need to be integrated into national development projects and strategies Nigeria's National Environmental Standards and Regulatory Enforcement Agency (NESREA) said on Thursday. “With coherent and proper coordination, Africa can steer the engine of economic growth and development toward a carbon-neutral path for sustainable development,” NESREA said in a statement... |
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Africa-wide Civil Society Climate Change Initiative for Policy Dialogues - ACCID
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