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Amid global food crisis, UN helps boost farm production in Swaziland
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) is helping poor farmers to boost their agricultural production in Swaziland, one of many countries suffering as a result of the global food crisis.
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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SWAZILAND: New approach to shanty towns gives residents rights and responsibilitiesMbabane, Swaziland - Rather than bulldozing the countries growing informal settlements, Swazi authorities plan to give residents property rights and access to services under a series of new urban development projects. |
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- Amid global food crisis, UN helps boost farm production in Swaziland
- UN opens first zero emission community power centre in rural Kenya
- African ‘wall of trees’ gets underway
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