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Adding value would help grow African cotton sector
2013-11-25 15:27:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Africa's promising cotton sector needs to reinvent itself by adding value, because 65% of the crop it grows is exported as raw material, industry leaders argue.
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GERMANY: Gerhard Rösch to use sustainable African cotton
2013-11-21 10:49:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Lingerie specialist Gerhard Rösch is to use sustainable cotton produced in a number of sub-Saharan African countries for the first time next year.
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Cost of climate change adaptation could destabilise African countries, UN warns
2013-11-20 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: African countries are increasingly vulnerable to climate change and could struggle to feed and defend their people as temperatures rise, according to a major UN report. The cost of developing drought-resistant crops, providing early-warning systems for floods, droughts and fires, and building seawalls, dykes, and wave breaks will be vast, says the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) emissions gap report, launched this week at an African environment ministers' meeting in Warsaw. It will cost Africa...
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African Swine Fever Kills Exotic Pig Breeds in Zambia
2013-11-20 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ZAMBIA - The Zambian veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of African swine fever in Lusaka.
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Petroplan to open new South African office
2013-11-19 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Global recruiter for the oil and gas industry Petroplan is set to open a new South African office in CenturyCity, a business development in the suburbs of Cape Town.
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