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Developing countries to share community-based adaptation experience
By T.V. Padma – SciDev.Net Countries in Asia and Africa have formed an open and informal ‘government group network’ to help mainstream community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change and share...
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Focus on Gender: Business can do more to aid women
By SciDev.Net – Henrietta Miers Companies have much to offer when it comes to helping female entrepreneurs in developing countries access markets, says Henrietta Miers. Ongoing research into controlling cassava...
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Will Somalia get enough rain this year?
Parts of southern Somalia are yet to recover from the battering they took in 2010-2011, when severe drought followed excessive rain, and now the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS...
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Water ravenous Middle East and North Africa look to membrane bioreactors, says Frost and Sullivan
The total water consumption of the Middle East is expected to rise to 319 billion cubic meters (BCM) by 2020, with agriculture utilising the bulk. Population and economic growth, paralleled...
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Abu Dhabi Farmers’ Services Centre unveils state-of-the-art Hydroponics demonstrations
Abu Dhabi Farmers’ Services Centre (ADFSC) unveiled its first hydroponics demonstration farms on 13 March in the Western Region communities of Tharwaniya and Husan. Hydroponics is an agricultural system set...
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Fast-growing fish variety could benefit Egypt and West Africa
New breeds of fish that grow about 30 per cent faster than the most common commercial strains will boost food security and farmers’ earnings in Egypt and West Africa, according...
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Ministerial conference adopts integrated African strategy for meteorology
An integrated African strategy for meteorology to meet challenges such as climate change and extreme weather hazards has been adopted by a ministerial-level conference in Zimbabwe. The Second Session of...