ETHIOPIA: Desperate farmers eat seeds before planting
SEKE, 4 September 2008 (IRIN) - Martne Harja had prepared her three-quarter hectare piece of land at Galcha Seke village in Wolayita zone of Ethiopia’s Southern Region for the planting season, but her seven children found themselves without food after the rains failed.
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ETHIOPIA: Families hard hit by food crisis
KARAT, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - The crowd that filled Konso Mekane Yesus primary school in Karat town, 600km south of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, were not pupils, but hundreds of mothers and children forced by food shortages to queue for relief rations.
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ETHIOPIA: Battling malnutrition in the south
GIRARA, 1 September 2008 (IRIN) - Since June, Girara health centre in southern Ethiopia has been a hive of activity each Monday when health staff run the outpatient therapeutic clinic.
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GLOBAL: Food wasted is water lost
JOHANNESBURG, 29 August 2008 (IRIN) - To meet growing food demand, in another 40 years the world would need enough water to fill at least three lakes the size of Victoria, Africa's largest body of water, according to a projection in a new policy brief. Lake Victoria's estimated volume is 2,750 km3.
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ETHIOPIA: Two months of rain but still not enough to eat
BADESSA, 29 August 2008 (IRIN) - In normal times, the weekly market in Badessa town, Damot Woyde district of Wolayita zone in Ethiopia’s Southern Region, fills with fresh food as farmers and traders bring in crops from the surrounding hills.
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ETHIOPIA: Thousands more displaced as floods spread
ADDIS ABABA, 27 August 2008 (IRIN) - Flash floods following torrential rains in Ethiopia's Gambella regional state have spread to four woredas and displaced thousands more people, an official in the area said.
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ETHIOPIA: Urban poor finding it harder to get food
ADDIS ABABA, 25 August 2008 (IRIN) - Fatuma Ali and Tieba Hussein left Hara village in Wollo, Amhara region of northeastern Ethiopia with some of their neighbours, believing that they could improve their livelihoods in the capital city, Addis Ababa.
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GLOBAL: Pressure on to reach emissions agreement
ACCRA, 22 August 2008 (IRIN) - Industrialised and developing countries will be under intense pressure to agree on greenhouse gas emission reduction targets during week-long negotiations over future greenhouse gas emission targets which kicked off in the Ghana capital Accra on 21 August.
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ETHIOPIA: Thousands displaced by flash flood in Gambella
ADDIS ABABA, 22 August 2008 (IRIN) - Threee rivers in the Gambella region of western Ethiopia have burst their banks following torrential rains that fell in the area for three consecutive days, government officials in the area said.
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GLOBAL: Cyclones, storms and hurricanes
JOHANNESBURG, 21 August 2008 (IRIN) - One symptom of climate change is more severe tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, featuring in the headlines more often.
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