Sustainable Development

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The world food crisis can be solved, Mozambican President Armando Guebuza declared on Thursday, if major investments are made in countries such as Mozambique, which possess large amounts of arable land that is still unused or underused. (AllAfrica)

Almost three million children across the Horn of Africa are at risk of death, disease and malnutrition due to a combination of drought, rising food prices and conflict, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned today. (AllAfrica)

The head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has urged countries to make good on the promises they made this week at a high-level conference in Ghana devoted to making international aid more effective. (AllAfrica)

TOP business personalities and conservation experts from 26 countries are gathering in Namibia this weekend to discuss links between business expertise and environmental projects in Africa to unlock the potential of protected areas for socio-economic development. (AllAfrica)

The Federal Government yesterday identified lack of transparency and openness in administering aid and assistance as factors militating against derivation of benefits from about N384 billion disbursed in about one decade, for development projects. (AllAfrica)

Britain and the World Bank have launched an initiative to make delivery and management of aid more open and accountable. (AllAfrica)

Delegates from both developing and developed countries have adopted the Accra Agenda For Action (AAA) as a guide to improve the way aid is given and spent. (AllAfrica)

Angola's economy may be booming on the back of high oil prices and strong diamond exports, but six years after a peace deal ended the 27-year civil war, unemployment stands at around 65 percent. (AllAfrica)

Mrs Adjoumi Hamidou is the President. One of three surviving widows of Ali Hamidou, she heads Akoldiningnal, a collective that runs a multi-cereal mill at Gashiga village, 15 kilometres from the capital of Cameroon's North Province, Garoua. (AllAfrica)

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has promised to make Ghana an industrialized country, with the establishment of, at least, a factory in each district of the country. (AllAfrica)

President Museveni who has been touring the country recently is back at his game of creating more districts out of villages. He has reportedly promised district status to Ntoroko, Serere, Buikwe and Ngora counties. (AllAfrica)

The World Bank has asked the international community to urgently implement measures to contain the food crisis that has pushed millions of people in vulnerable countries to the verge of extreme poverty. (AllAfrica)

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, World Bank Managing Director, said yesterday in Accra that the perpetual dependence on aid by African countries would not develop the continent, but only facilitate growth. (AllAfrica)

To address fertiliser crisis and agriculture related problems in Nigeria, there is the need to ensure policy consistency that will be passed from one regime to another, former Governor of Nassarawa State has said. (AllAfrica)

Over the years local residents of Rebero in Gicumbi District north of the Rwandan capital of Kigali, watched as their soil was washed away by rain. (AllAfrica)

People can ‘fly’ to some of the world’s most dramatic environmental hotspots courtesy of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)’s innovative use of the popular mapping tool Google Earth. (AllAfrica)

World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick today outlined steps to address the immediate risks of the global food crisis while also proposing reforms for the international aid system so it can have a greater impact on the lives of poor people. (AllAfrica)

RECREATIONAL parks are important to the vibrancy of any city by providing a natural place for beauty, solace and quiet reflection. (AllAfrica)

In the Aid Effectiveness talks in Accra, Ghana, officials from various African governments are accusing donors of making it difficult for recipients to produce results. (AllAfrica)

One person was killed and six others were injured during a food riot inside a camp that houses Chadian refugees in the Sudanese region of Darfur, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports. (AllAfrica)

Angelina Sidumo is one of the hundreds of traders that throng the busy train station in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, on most Wednesday afternoons to catch the once-weekly train south to Chicualacuala town in Gaza Province, an 18-hour journey covering nearly 500km. (AllAfrica)

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki announced that their countries have a "strategic" relationship, before signing a framework cooperation agreement in Pretoria, which paves the way for future arrangements on technology transfer and concrete deals involving oil and food. (AllAfrica)

The European Union has reached a new agreement aimed at preventing import of illegal timber from Africa, but environmental campaigners believe bolder action is needed to curb deforestation across the globe. (AllAfrica)

AS PART of proactive measures to forestall any possible disasters from floods this year, the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) has held a flood-preparedness meeting with all heads of Departments, and stakeholders in the region. (AllAfrica)

Member countries of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have adopted international guidelines aimed at limiting the impact of fishing on fragile deep sea fish species and habitats. This came to light after two years of preparation and negotiation with member countries. (AllAfrica)

Governments from around the world and their implementing aid partners were expected on Thursday to conclude a three-day forum in Accra, Ghana intended to ensure that poor countries optimally benefit from donors aid. (AllAfrica)

A Liberian-American Couple based in Brooklyn, United States of America has continued the donation of several bags of rice and other humanitarian supplies to several orphanages and old folk homes in Monrovia and its environs. (AllAfrica)

A US$350 million turnkey rural electrification project has been awarded to a 13-employee engineering company based in Illinois. They will procure equipment and services from US suppliers as part of the loan agreement with the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank). (AllAfrica)

World leaders have been told to gear up or miss international commitments and targets for effective aid by 2010. (AllAfrica)

During a visit to Northern Ghana, Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, announced projects to help women survive child birth and to increase children's access to education. (AllAfrica)

United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes expressed yesterday that persistent relief aid to the drought affected areas of Ethiopia is needed in order for the dire situation not to worsen to famine. (AllAfrica)