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Last week, news came over the wire that all the countries of the Great Lakes region had agreed to send a neutral force to attack the M23 and FDLR rebels. Can it be? Are we entering into a new phase of the Congolese crisis?
Maybe, but we should reserve some healthy skepticism.
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The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) in Zambia has announced that payments for this season's crops will be made into farmers' bank accounts. The FRA is probably the biggest buyer of crops produced by smallholder farmers and, for many, the major source of income during the year. Many of these smallholder farmers do not have bank accounts.They're part of the great unbanked masses that make up most of
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40 per cent of Lesotho's people live in extreme poverty and 82 per cent are engaged, if not reliant, on some form of agriculture. So two bad seasons has had a severe impact on food security. 2010-2011 saw flooding and heavy rains, 2011-2012 a drought. According to crop forecasts: ... the overall area planted in the 2011-2012 agricultural year decreased by nearly 40 percent from the previous year
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