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PRODUCER COUNTRY TEA MARKETS HAVE MARGIN FOR GROWTH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is advising tea-exporting countries to stimulate demand in their domestic markets, because major growing sales are unlikely in traditional importers of black tea, such as Britain and Russia. Here, "scope for expansion in consumption is quite limited…but in the countries where tea is produced the per capita consumption is much lower and so there is a lot more market potential," said Kaison Chang, secretary of FAO’s inter-governmental group on tea.…
UNESCO PUSHES AHEAD WITH AMBITIOUS AFRICA HISTORY TEACHING PROJECT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HISTORIANS are working with Unesco (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and educationalists to try and develop a common African history syllabus, teaching approach and pedagogical materials. The ambitious project will initially focus on helping primary and secondary schools across Africa, and this coming year an assessment will consider how universities in Africa could benefit from such work.…
CORRUPTION IN KENYA: A BARRIER TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT
BY ALYSHAH HASHAM
KENYA, and its capital Nairobi, is the business hub of east Africa. It also has the reputation of being one of the world’s most corrupt places – a place where bribery is an accepted part of doing business.…
BIOFUELS PRODUCTION INCREASES IN EASTERN AFRICA
BY WACHIRA KIGOTHO
EAST Africa is developing as an important source of biofuels and biofuel feedstock, with governments keen to attract foreign direct investment for this potentially strategic rural development option.
Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan, and Tanzania are countries where foreign companies are competing to acquire land for biofuel projects.…
CDM PROJECTS OFF TO A SLOW START IN AFRICA
BY GEORGE STONE
THE KYOTO Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has made slow progress in Africa, but schemes are slowly getting off the ground, led by programmes in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.
Under the United Nations-backed CDM process, projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to sustainable development can earn saleable certified emission reduction (CER) credits.…
DE BOER REPLACEMENTS AS CLIMATE CHANGE BOSS EMERGE
BY ERIC LYMAN and KEITH NUTHALL
THE EXECUTIVE secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) Yvo de Boer will switch his attentions to the private sector after standing down from his job on July 1. He will be joining the consultancy group KPMG as global adviser on climate and sustainability and working with a number of universities.…
NAIROBI AIRPORT GETS EU CASH INJECTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
JOMO Kenyatta International Airport is receiving Euro 68.8 million financing from the European Union (EU), mostly from the European Investment Bank (EIB). It is lending the Kenya Airports Authority Euro 63.8 million alone and granting Euro 5 million in conjunction with German development bank KfW.…
TOBACCO CONTROLS MAYBE GROWING - BUT THEY ARE OFTEN WEAK
BY AHMAD PATHONI, ALYSHAH HASHAM, MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL
GIVEN the constant flow of news about tougher tobacco industry regulations from all continents, tobacco executives could be forgiven for thinking there are no countries where they have a relative free hand to sell their products.…
RINDERPEST WILL BE DECLARED EXTINCT BY FAO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CATTLE disease responsible for the destruction of millions of head of cattle and other hoofed livestock should be declared extinct within the next 18 months, with global cooperation the key to success. The United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Office International des Épizooties (OIE) – the world animal health organisation – are preparing to announce that rinderpest has disappeared.…
SOMALI PIRACY AND THE SPECTRE OF MONEY LAUNDERING
BY PAUL COCHRANE
PIRACY has increased exponentially off the coast of Somalia in recent years, with ships hijacked deep into international waters despite the presence of a multi-national naval task force, and pirates demanding ever higher ransoms from shipping companies. But while the spoils of piracy are evident in coastal Somali towns, tracking down where the remaining millions of dollars disappear to is hard to pin down, with allegations circulating of ransom money entering the real estate markets of Kenya, to money laundering in Yemen and Dubai.…