Month: June 2015
- Africa
Farmers in Nekempte get new fertilizer blending facility
The Ministry of Agriculture, with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Oromia Bureau of Agriculture, and the Agricultural Transformation Agency, Sunday joined the Gibe Dedesa Farmers’ Cooperative Union to inaugurate a warehouse and one of the first fertilizer blending facilities in Ethiopia. Together, the warehouse and blending facility will help the cooperative to meet farmer…
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Second half of the year to see increased humanitarian need
Insufficient rain during the last short (Belg) rainy season of February to May this year has unexpectedly changed the humanitarian need context in Ethiopia, reports Relief Web, one of the biggest humanitarian portals in the globe. Despite optimistic forecasts at the beginning of the year, increasing water and pasture shortages were reported in parts of the country, leading to deteriorated…
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Waste not want not
From wasted economy to wasted planet: Why changing our consumption patterns is a choice we must make Achim Steiner As we sit down to lunch or dinner on this World Environment Day, it is important to consider this: one-third of all food produced globally each year – 300 million tones – is wasted. This waste costs the global economy…
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Egypt’s dead men walking
Omar Ashour Cairo – Mass death sentences are usually associated with regimes like those of Adolf Hitler’s Nazis or Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge. But Egypt’s military rulers have now joined the ranks of such regimes, staging circus-like trials in which the outcome is foreordained. One such trial, in March 2014, produced 529 death sentences; another, in April, yielded 683 death…
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