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November 2006

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11/30/2006 Getachew and Ingida are seasoned farmers in the fertile area of Debre Zeit in rural Ethiopia who have shared their views on the hardship of feeding growing families.
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Related: [Ethiopia] [Agriculture] [Education] [Population] [Poverty]
11/30/2006 The first commodity exchange opened in Chicago 150 years ago to help farmers ensure a stable demand for their crop. Facing similar issues, Ethiopia is now looking into developing a similar system--based on its own needs.
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Related: [Ethiopia] [Agriculture] [Poverty] [Finance] [Business]
11/30/2006 In Ethiopia, like in many countries in transition, there is a deep mistrust of traders. But without them, how would the country achieve its goal of commercializing agriculture?
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Related: [Ethiopia] [Agriculture] [Poverty] [Trade]
11/30/2006 Commercializing agriculture—and creating a “new farmer” as the government aims to do—is no easy task, especially in a country where both the roads and telecommunications structures are among the weakest in the world.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Ethiopia] [Agriculture] [Poverty] [Trade]
11/30/2006
Changing lives depends most on listening to people and understanding what motivates them.
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Related: [Ethiopia] [Agriculture] [Civil Society]
11/29/2006 Greenpeace has criticised the Indian government over its e-waste - waste from electronic and electrical equipment - policies for ignoring international laws and for putting the burden of handling e-waste on consumers and not producers. The organisation has said that the policy will "open the floodgates for dumping e-wastes in the country."
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Related: [India] [Kenya] [ICT]
11/28/2006 Suomen Punainen Risti lahjoittaa Maailman aids-päivänä ensimmäinen joulukuuta 100 000 euroa aidsin vastaiseen työhön eteläisessä Afrikassa. Avustus ohjataan Malawiin ja Etelä-Afrikkaan, joiden tartuntatilanne on erittäin huolestuttava. Suomen Punaisen Ristin tekemä lahjoitus tulee osaksi laajaa, koko eteläisen Afrikan kattavaa kansainvälisen Punaisen Ristin hiv-ohjelmaa.
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From: Punainen Risti
Related: [Malawi] [South Africa] [HIV/AIDS] [International Cooperation] [Health]
11/27/2006 "A woman was supposed to be seen and not heard," says the co-founder of the community group Womankind Kenya, which runs girls' schools and helps change attitudes among families and tribal leaders. "Now I'm being heard."
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From: Centre for Development and Population Activities
Related: [Kenya]
11/27/2006 International recognition of the self-declared independent state of Somaliland could secure a rare African success story, says international relations specialist Jawahir Adam.
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From: openDemocracy
Related: [Somalia]
11/27/2006 Suomen UFF ja Maailman Sarjakuvat ry ovat toteuttaneet yhteistyössä sarjakuvan tekoon liittyvän koulutuksen UFF:n kehitysyhteistyökohteissa Mosambikissa vuosina 2005 - 2006. Nyt UFF:n myymälöissä esitellään tuloksia, mosambikilaisten tekemiä sarjakuvia.
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Related: [Mozambique] [International Cooperation] [Culture]
11/24/2006 Kirkon Ulkomaanapu valmistelee yhteistyökumppaniensa kanssa avustustoimia Itä-Afrikan tulva-alueilla Keniassa ja Somaliassa. Avustussuunnitelmaan sisältyy hankkeita muun muassa itäisessä Keniassa ja Keski-Somaliassa. Rankkasateet ovat koetelleet Afrikan sarven aluetta jo useiden viikkojen ajan pahemmin kuin 50 vuoteen. Viikonvaihteessa tilanne paheni edelleen.
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From: Kirkon Ulkomaanapu
Related: [Kenya] [Somalia] [Emergency Relief] [Environment]
11/24/2006 Lukuvuonna 2005-2006 Taksvärkkikeräys kokosi noin 315 000 euroa hiv:n ja aidsin ennaltaehkäisyyn ja lasten oikeuksien edistämiseen Tansaniassa. Niin sanottujen Sara-klubien jäsenet koulutetaan kertomaan lasten oikeuksista sekä opettamaan muille lapsille ja nuorille, miten hiv- ja aids leviävät ja miten tartunnalta voi suojautua.
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From: Taksvärkki ry
Related: [Tanzania ] [Children] [Education] [International Cooperation] [Youth] [HIV/AIDS]
11/23/2006 Kirkon Ulkomaanavun tämän vuoden adventtikeräyksellä kootaan varoja Mosambikin lasten koulutukseen ja elinolosuhteiden parantamiseen. Myös ensimmäisen adventin kolehti kerätään Kirkon Ulkomaanavulle Mosambikin lasten auttamiseen. Kirkon Ulkomaanapu tekee Mosambikissa työtä Gazan maakunnassa, joka on yksi maan köyhimpiä alueita.
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From: Kirkon Ulkomaanapu
Related: [Mozambique] [International Cooperation]
11/22/2006 The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst floods in years. Thousands have fled their homes and 1.8 million people are affected across Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya.
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From: ActionAid UK
Related: [Somalia] [Kenya] [Ethiopia]
11/22/2006 Vuonna 2007 vietetään taksvärkkitoiminnan 40-vuotisjuhlavuotta. Juhlavuoden keräyksen varat suunnataan Kenian katulapsille. Nairobissa elää arviolta 60 000 katulasta ja -nuorta, jotka ovat 8-30 -vuotiaita. Kadulla asuu myös nuorten aikuisten perustamia perheitä. Taksvärkin kehitysyhteistyöhanke toteutetaan yhteistyössä kenialaisen kansalaisjärjestön Undugu Society of Kenyan kanssa.
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From: Taksvärkki ry
Related: [Kenya] [Development] [Children] [International Cooperation] [Poverty] [Shelter & Housing]
Dolphins presiding over the Nairobi UN climate conference - sending their last warning to the humans?
11/21/2006 from Maribo blog:
Snippets from the UN FCCC final report. Next meeting: Bonn, Germany in May 2007.
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Related: [Kenya] [Climate Change] [United Nations]
Image: Dolphins presiding over the Nairobi UN climate conference - sending their last warning to the humans?
11/21/2006 from The BBC:
What is the Nairobi conference actually doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
Image: Views of delegates at the UN climate conference in Nairobi

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Related: [Kenya]
11/20/2006 "It's an extraordinary feeling to sit in the annual negotiations of the world's governments tackling one of the biggest threats to humankind - and to be surrounded by such a lack of urgency among most delegates", writes Oxfam's Kate Raworth. So what was the image that symbolised this conference? Not what you might expect.
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Related: [Kenya] [Climate Change] [United Nations]
11/16/2006 from Solar Generation blog:
SG have been very active at COP 12 Nairobi conference. Among other things, they've visited the Youth Solar project in one of the slums of Nairobi. Young people there are making small solar panels, which they sell, and the profit is reinvested in youth projects on various issues.
Image: SG on demo in Nairobi

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Related: [Kenya] [Climate Change] [United Nations]
Yhteisöviljelyä Etiopiassa
11/16/2006 Etiopian ja Intian tulisi tiivistää yhteistyötään maataloudessa, toteaa Etiopian presidentti Girma Wolde-Giorgis. Hänen mukaansa intialaiset sijoittajat hyötyisivät, jos he investoisivat kukka- ja kasvitarhaviljelyyn. Vaikka intialaisilta on opittu jo paljon, presidentti uskoo tiiviimmän yhteistyön vauhdittavan tuotannon kasvua.
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From: Ulkoministeriö
Related: [Ethiopia] [India] [Agriculture] [International Cooperation] [Economy] [Credit and Investment]
Image: Yhteisöviljelyä Etiopiassa © Megan Montoya /
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