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Agriculture Reporter THE Food and Agriculture Organisation has launched a programme aimed at addressing crop production and post-harvest systems to reduce the effects of climate change which is affecting most…
Grow potatoes to enhance food security — SIRDC
Herald Reporter A Scientific and Industrial Research And Development Centre agri-business research expert has encouraged Zimbabweans to take up potato production at their homesteads to enhance household food security and…
Editorial Comment: Civil servants’ leaders must stop bickering
Revelations that civil servants are failing to agree on the composition of their salary negotiating team make sad reading. The civil servants’ actions are surprising, to say the least, considering…
Pastors only pray for food
Reflections Isdore Guvamombe Back in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, it is in the blood of our species to cheat in marriage, examination,…
If Taylor is a war criminal, so is Bush, Obama, Clinton
Glen Ford “Whereas Liberian president Charles Taylor was accused of encouraging the slaughter of possibly 50 000 people in Sierra Leone, Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have armed,…
Indigenisation, a tool to manage globalisation
Kuthula Njokweni The idea that local actors, such as the state and citizens, play a diminished role in managing economic globalisation predominantly within their countries is widespread. Closely linked to…
Time liberation movements walk the talk
Lovemore Ranga Mataire On August 12, 1998, the soon to be president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, delivered a speech that challenged African politicians at the dawn of the 21st…
No free press in Britain
John Pilger In its bid to continue lawlessly spying on almost everyone, Britain’s “intelligence” and “security” establishment has launched an assault on the Guardian. Such is the rise of the…
India’s ‘elephant girl’ takes on the herds
14-YEAR-OLD old Nirmala Toppo has become something of a minor celebrity in the eastern Indian state of Orissa. In June, panic gripped the industrial city of Rourkela one night when…
US’s surveillance scandal will weaken credibility: Chinese experts
ANGER over Washington’s extensive eavesdropping on world leaders and ordinary citizens has shown no signs of abating, as observers say using anti-terrorism as an excuse for pervasive surveillance is “hypocritical…