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Busani Bafana the Zimbabwean Journalist and founding member / coordinator of the Network on Environment & Agriculture Reporting, a media network in Zimbabwe that seeks to promote coverage of agriculture and science issues by journalists, has published an article on the Inter Press Service titled ‘Farmers Need to Grow Climate Smart’. Bafana states “Farmers cannot wait much longer for negotiators to reach an agreement on including a work programme on agriculture in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. And until one is approved, “it will continue to be difficult for farmers to produce the food needed, and at the same time reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” [states] Anette Friis from the Danish Food and Agriculture Council and spokesperson for Farming First, a global coalition calling on world leaders to increase agricultural output in a sustainable and socially responsible manner. “Countries failed to get an agreement on agriculture at this year’s (Conference of the Parties) COP18 in Doha, which means that discussions will not move to the next level and a work programme on agriculture is not foreseen for the near future.” “Progress has been excruciatingly slow,” [states] Bruce Campbell programme director [CCAFS] Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security . “One sentence in Durban in the final agreement. Then a few non-committal sentences at SBSTA in June. This mirrors the UNFCCC negotiations generally. What can one say, but that we are on target for a four-degree warmer world, which is likely to reduce growing seasons over much of sub-Saharan Africa by more than 20 percent.” According to CCAFS, agriculture and land use change, mostly from deforestation, contribute an estimated one-third of total greenhouse gas emissions. However, an improvement to crop yields since 1960 has already reduced agricultural emissions by 34 percent. Arguing that farmers around the world are experiencing the impacts of climate change daily, Farming First says the agriculture sector could play an important role in both climate change adaptation and mitigation. …Climate-smart agriculture includes conservation agriculture, crop rotation, agro-forestry, better weather forecasting and integrated crop-livestock management. It is aimed at environmentally-friendly increases in food production, which thereby reduce the emissions produced from agriculture.”  Inspired by Inter Press Service ow.ly/gpPYR image source Linkedin ow.ly/gpPYa Farmers need to grow Climate Smart (January 5 2013)Busani Bafana the Zimbabwean Journalist and founding member / coordinator of the Network on Environment & Agriculture Reporting, a media network in Zimbabwe that seeks to promote coverage of agriculture and science issues by journalists, has published an article on the Inter Press Service titled ‘Farmers Need to Grow Climate Smart’. Bafana states “Farmers cannot wait much longer for negotiators to reach an agreement on including a work programme on agriculture in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. And until one is approved, “it will continue to be difficult for farmers to produce the food needed, and at the same time reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” [states] Anette Friis from the Danish Food and Agriculture Council and spokesperson for Farming First, a global coalition calling on world leaders to increase agricultural output in a sustainable and socially responsible manner. “Countries failed to get an agreement on agriculture at this year’s (Conference of the Parties) COP18 in Doha, which means that discussions will not move to the next level and a work programme on agriculture is not foreseen for the near future.” “Progress has been excruciatingly slow,” [states] Bruce Campbell programme director [CCAFS] Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security . “One sentence in Durban in the final agreement. Then a few non-committal sentences at SBSTA in June. This mirrors the UNFCCC negotiations generally. What can one say, but that we are on target for a four-degree warmer world, which is likely to reduce growing seasons over much of sub-Saharan Africa by more than 20 percent.” According to CCAFS, agriculture and land use change, mostly from deforestation, contribute an estimated one-third of total greenhouse gas emissions. However, an improvement to crop yields since 1960 has already reduced agricultural emissions by 34 percent. Arguing that farmers around the world are experiencing the impacts of climate change daily, Farming First says the agriculture sector could play an important role in both climate change adaptation and mitigation. …Climate-smart agriculture includes conservation agriculture, crop rotation, agro-forestry, better weather forecasting and integrated crop-livestock management. It is aimed at environmentally-friendly increases in food production, which thereby reduce the emissions produced from agriculture.”

 

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Chris Ofili the 42 year old UK painter renowned for his works referencing his Nigerian heritage and use of elephant dung, has had his first experimental piece located with two others in a vault of a gallery in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The piece was created in 1992 when Ofili traveled to Zimbabwe as a young 23 year old council funded artist to participate in an artists’ workshop, where he experimented in the use of elephant dung that has gone on to become his signature media. The Art Newspaper investigation uncovered these significant paintings from the now defunct workshop, in a branch vault of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. The paintings are in need of urgent conservation works due to the materials used and the young Ofili’s (now a Turner Prize winner of international fame) lack of experience at the time.

 

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Robert Gabriel Mugabe the 87 year old President of Zimbabwe, renowned for his iron fisted rule of the nation since 1980 when power was seized from the white-minority government, has imprisoned then demoted a senior police detective for using his reserved toilet at a trade fair. The Homicide Detective Sergeant Alois Mabhunu was held in custody on remand for three weeks until convicted by an internal police court and sentenced to 10 days imprisonment, on charges that a leading Zimbabwe human rights lawyer claims does not exist. The incident occurred at the annual Zimbabwe International Trade Fair, where the toilet was reserved for Mugabe’s use. Mabhunu who entered the reserved toilet to relieve himself, has in addition to the prison term been demoted back to a uniformed constable on the beat. Inspired by David Smith ow.ly/5hhSj image source Inthenews ow.ly/5hiI9 Never use toilet reserved for the President (June 19 2011)

Robert Gabriel Mugabe the 87 year old President of Zimbabwe, renowned for his iron fisted rule of the nation since 1980 when power was seized from the white-minority government, has imprisoned then demoted a senior police detective for using his reserved toilet at a trade fair. The Homicide Detective Sergeant Alois Mabhunu was held in custody on remand for three weeks until convicted by an internal police court and sentenced to 10 days imprisonment, on charges that a leading Zimbabwe human rights lawyer claims does not exist. The incident occurred at the annual Zimbabwe International Trade Fair, where the toilet was reserved for Mugabe’s use. Mabhunu who entered the reserved toilet to relieve himself, has in addition to the prison term been demoted back to a uniformed constable on the beat.

 

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Robert (Bob) Parsons the 60 year old CEO and founder of the Go Daddy Group of domain name registrars posted a video from his recent holiday to Zimbabwe of himself proudly killing an elephant. The video included images of local villagers wearing Go Daddy emblazoned hats butchering the beast went viral as concerned animal activists urged boycotting the Go Daddy business. Parsons simplistically claims he is assisting the villagers by protecting their fields and providing food, failing to take account of other humane methods of fostering peaceful co-existence where human footprint encroaches into wildlife habitats. The World Wildlife Fund has identified other means of keeping wildlife out of fields including scatterings of chili and tobacco-based plants. PETA has branded Parsons the “Scummiest CEO of the Year”. Inspired by John Platt ow.ly/4tncx image source Parsonsrep ow.ly/4tnam Of everything that I do this most rewarding (April 5 2011)

Robert (Bob) Parsons the 60 year old CEO and founder of the Go Daddy Group of domain name registrars posted a video from his recent holiday to Zimbabwe of himself proudly killing an elephant. The video included images of local villagers wearing Go Daddy emblazoned hats butchering the beast went viral as concerned animal activists urged boycotting the Go Daddy business. Parsons simplistically claims he is assisting the villagers by protecting their fields and providing food, failing to take account of other humane methods of fostering peaceful co-existence where human footprint encroaches into wildlife habitats. The World Wildlife Fund has identified other means of keeping wildlife out of fields including scatterings of chili and tobacco-based plants. PETA has branded Parsons the “Scummiest CEO of the Year”.

 

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