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BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round moves towards completion, a big push is underway to see a wine and spirits geographical indication register established within final deal. A WTO special group for the issue met yesterday (Mon Dec 3) and supporters of the register pushed for full negotiations on the issue, ending technical discussions that have dragged on for years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round moves towards completion, a big push is underway to see a wine and spirits geographical indication register established within final deal. A WTO special group for the issue met yesterday (Mon Dec 3) and supporters of the register pushed for full negotiations on the issue, ending technical discussions that have dragged on for years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AS the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round moves towards completion, a big push is underway to see a wine and spirits geographical indication register established within final deal. A WTO special group for the issue met yesterday (Mon Dec 3) and supporters of the register pushed for full negotiations on the issue, ending technical discussions that have dragged on for years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

"TEA is known to be good for you, now it is also getting better for the environment:" so said UN Environment Programme (UNEP) executive director Achim Steiner, when launching renewable power initiatives in east Africa. UNEP is coordinating two Global Environment Facility (GEF)-financed projects greening tea production in the region, where it is a pivotal industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

"EAT your greens": this common-or-garden parental health advice may boost the health and wealth of Kenyan rural communities in an innovative market garden development project. The UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is spending US$26.6 million on improving vegetable production and distribution for local markets, with the aim not only of boosting local prosperity, but also improving the diets of local consumers, improving their health and in turn making them more productive.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Addis Ababa

ETHIOPIA’S tobacco sector is growing at a robust 4% a year, and is estimated to be worth some US$131.5 million (Ethiopian Birr 1.19 billion). But while growth has remained steady in recent years, near endemic levels of smuggled cigarettes are curbing further growth despite attempts to stamp out illicit brands coming into the country from neighbouring African states.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Addis Ababa

ETHIOPIA’S tobacco sector is growing at a robust 4% a year, and is estimated to be worth some US$131.5 million (Ethiopian Birr 1.19 billion). But while growth has remained steady in recent years, near endemic levels of smuggled cigarettes are curbing further growth despite attempts to stamp out illicit brands coming into the country from neighbouring African states.…

BY MARK ROWE

A FUEL marker so complex that it is all but impossible for thieves to replicate has been developed by scientists; the marker is so sensitive, it can identify illegal stolen fuel by using nanotechnology-based components.
This nanotech-based tracer, developed by Authentix, a nano-science company based in Dallas, Texas, uses hand-held LSX-based technology, and which has already been taken up by Luke Oil, Shell and BP in the United States.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
NANOTECHNOLOGY has huge implications for the oil and gas industry, according to leading scientists who attended a conference on the impact of this cutting edge science on the environment at the Royal Society in London. They stressed the technology offers the prospect of carbon emission reduction, resource use minimisation, hazardous chemical substitution, the chance to dramatically reduce fraud, and pollution reversal techniques.…

BY BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg
AS Zimbabwe descends further into economic and political meltdown the country’s ruling elite are continuing to enrich themselves through fraud, theft and bribery. Bill Corcoran reports from Johannesburg.

UNLIKE politically stable countries where large scale commercial crime is just as likely to occur in the private sector as it is in the public, troubled Zimbabwe’s major fraudsters and thieves are today predominantly found in state run companies or government departments.…