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<title>Five innovations working to empower women</title>
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<dc:date>2012-01-06</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Women produce more than half of the world's food but  face unique challenges as farmers. Five innovative programs are helping  them &ndash; and strengthening the world's food system.
At a time when world resources are dwindling and global population is  growing rapidly, finding sustainable solutions to nourish people and the  planet is more important than ever...]]></description>
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<title>Canada's Environment Minister announces recipients of climate change research</title>
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<dc:date>2012-01-05</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[On November 25, Canada's Environment Minister, the Honourable  Peter Kent, announced funding for seven winning projects from across  Africa that will support important and innovative initiatives to better  equip the African continent to deal with the effects of climate change.  The African Adaptation Research Centres (AARC) initiative is a three-year, $10 million project managed by IDRC with  funding provided by the Government of Canada, as part of Canada&rsquo;s  commitment to fast-start climate change financing promised under the  Copenhagen Accord...]]></description>
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<title>Delayed climate deal a risk to food production, ag specialists say</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-07</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[The dun maize field spreading out at Dumisani Ndlovu&rsquo;s offers a hint  of a bleak future. Baked by the sun and deprived of water, the crops on  his farm in Giyani, in South Africa&rsquo;s Limpopo province, are parched and  nearly dead.
Ndlovu, a third-generation farmer, pulls a leaf from a plant that ought to be plump and green...]]></description>
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<title>Leading Agricultural Organisations Issue Joint Appeal to COP17 Climate Negotiators at All-Day Event in Durban</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-03</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA: A group of 16 of the world&rsquo;s leading  agricultural organisations (including three United Nations agencies, the  World Bank, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and  Food Security (CCAFS), FANRPAN, the Global Forum on Agricultural  Research, Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU)  and the World Farmers&rsquo; Organisation) has jointly endorsed a letter  calling on COP17 climate negotiators to take concrete action to include  agriculture in the text of the climate agreement...]]></description>
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<title>Attention on Africa's agriculture as food becomes world's 'new oil'</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-03</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[With food expected to become the &ldquo;new oil&rdquo; of the 21st century, the  Standard Bank Group says Africa&rsquo;s agricultural output is set for  explosive growth in the coming decade.
According to a research analyst at the South African-based bank, Mr  Simon Freemantle, the continent&rsquo;s largely untapped potential is gaining  an elevated attention...]]></description>
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<title>John Prescott: suspend the Kyoto protocol</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-02</dc:date>
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The former Labour minister says countries should 'stop the clock' on the  agreement in order to continue negotiations on its future.
The Kyoto protocol should be suspended in order to safeguard its future, said one of the  lead architects of the treaty, the former Labour minister John Prescott.
Instead  of allowing the current provisions of the agreement to expire in 2012 -  as they would under current law - countries should "stop the clock" in  order to continue negotiations on its future, at United Nations climate change talks taking place this week and next in Durban...]]></description>
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<title>Canada urged to stay with Kyoto Protocol</title>
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<dc:date>2011-12-02</dc:date>
<description><![CDATA[Durban - South Africa has urged Canada to reconsider its position of not entering into a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, officials said on Thursday.
Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa called on Canada to recommit to Kyoto.
Molewa heads South Africa's delegation to the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change taking place in Durban...]]></description>
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