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Africans look to video on demand
2013-10-29 01:24:06| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Video on demand is set to change the way Africa watches
Biofuel project funded by UK leaves Africans without food
2013-09-01 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Thousands of people in one of Africas poorest countries are going hungry because of a biofuels land grab by a firm that receives funding from the Department for International Development, a charity claims. ActionAid accuses the Swiss company Addax Bioenergy of threatening livelihoods in rural communities in Sierra Leone, where it runs an extensive sugar-cane plantation. Addax, which will soon begin the first commercial shipping of biofuels from Africa to Europe, receives funding from a UK-based...
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Africans vulnerable to climate change due dependency on rain-fed agriculture
2013-07-23 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nyasa Times: Malawi Minister of Environment and Climate Change Management Halima Daudi has attributed East and Southern Africans vulnerability to climate change to heavy dependence on rain-fed subsistence agriculture for livelihoods and on wood energy for cooking and heating. The Minister made the remarks at the Southern Voices on Climate Change, East and Southern Africa Regional workshop being held at Sunbird Nkopola Lodge in Mangochi on Tuesday when she officially opened the workshop which ends Thursday....
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Africans should be more proactive facing climate change: expert
2013-04-24 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: As the world marks Earth Day, a geology scientist calls on Africans to be more proactive and invest in alternative energy to stem deforestation and spur development. Professor Benjamin Mapani, who teaches geology at the University of Namibia and conducts research on the impacts of climate change, said climatic patterns are changing drastically, and that rural communities will bear the brunt of climate change. "In the 1970s we used to have floods and droughts but not as frequently as now. We...
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Africans move against REDD initiatives in continent
2013-04-08 04:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Premium Times: REDD intiatives have been decried as a form of neo-colonialism. African participants at the World Social Forum in Tunisia have taken a historic decision to launch a No REDD in Africa Network and join the global movement against REDD. Participants from Nigeria, South Africa, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Mozambique, Tunisia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and Tanzania participated in the launch of the network recently. REDD, an acronym for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation;...
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