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Agriculture Biodiversity Conservation Farming Practices Floods Poverty Reduction

Thursday 19 April 2012

Ghanaian Fisherfolk Blasting Their Way to Finding Fish
ips.org | 19 Apr 2012
By Jessica McDiarmidThomas Essuman says Ghanaian fisherfolk know that using poison, dynamite and illegal nets to catch fish is doing long-term damage. / Jessica McDiarmid/IPS TAKORADI-SEKONDI, Ghana, Apr 19 (IPS) – Explosives, high-watt light bulbs, monofilament nets, and poison:...

Johannesburg township residents have to queue for drinking water
ips.org | 19 Apr 2012
A resident of Diepsloot waits among his empty water buckets. Credit: Sipho Stuurman/IPSAfter a warning by the Johannesburg City Council, residents of the Diepsloot township have been queuing for days to get their hands on a bucket of drinking water. Sipho Stuurman was in the township and spoke to residents and officials.

Atelier sur la mise ' niveau environnementale et nergtique, le 26 avril Dakar
mediaterre.org | 19 Apr 2012
Le Bureau de mise ' niveau organise, le 26 avril, de 8 heures 30 12 heures 30 au Terrou-Bi, un atelier de sensibilisation et d'information sur la mise niveau environnementale et nergtique des entreprises. La rencontre, anime (...)

Uganda: IDP News Alert, 19 April 2012
feedproxy.google.com | 19 Apr 2012
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre Country: Uganda, World To see this news alert with links to the sources click hereUganda: Returning IDPs face further challenges over homelandWidespread land...

World Bank, UNDP, GEF Project Preserves Biodiversity in South Africa
biodiversity-l.iisd.org | 19 Apr 2012
The World Bank and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) implemented two Global Environment Facility (GEF) grants in South Africa in a project to streamline biodiversity objectives into land use planning strategies. The project aimed to improve conservation and implement conservation agreements with private landowners along the Cape Floristic Region.

/CORRECTED REPEAT**/: Listening to the Hum of Tilling Machinery in the Sierra Leone Countryside
Inter Press Service | 19 Apr 2012
In the eastern Sierra Leonean community of Lambayama, rice paddies are carved far into the landscape before being abruptly halted by distant hills. Aside from a paved road that draws a grey line through the green, swampy valley, it looks much as it did a century ago.

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