News tagged with african exports

Relaxed trade rules boost African development, study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Often thought to be hobbled by corruption, poor infrastructure and a weak financial system, African exporters rose to the opportunities presented by a U.S. trade liberalization policy, a recent University ...

Other Sciences / Other

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Domestic consumption main contributor to Africa's growing e-waste

West Africa faces a rising tide of e-waste generated by domestic consumption of new and used electrical and electronic equipment, according to a new United Nations report. Domestic consumption makes up the majority (up to ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brazil to lead world in biotech crops: association

Brazil is on course to dislodge the United States as the world's top producer of biotech crops in the coming years, a leading promoter of farm biotechnology said Tuesday.

Biology / Biotechnology

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Warning of unrest, new study shows millions risk losing lands in Africa

New studies released in London today suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest—unless national ...

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

No future without scarce metals

It is not just in laptop computers, mobile telephones and LED screens that scarce metals are to be found but also in solar cells, batteries for mobile technologies and many other similar applications. The ...

Technology / Other

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Fisherman's gold: Shark fin hunt empties west African seas

Retired fisherman Sada Fall is upbeat. His two sons are returning from sea with a boatload of "gold", as he calls shark fins, whose value has near-obliterated the ocean's top predator in these seas.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brave new world: Pioneering electronic publication of new plant species

The changes to the publication requirements of new names for algae, fungi and plants accepted at the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne in July 2011 initiated several important challenges ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wind farm fuels Ethiopia's green power ambitions

Villagers in Ethiopia's arid north live as they have for centuries surrounded by cattle and donkeys; only the rows of towering white wind turbines look out of place.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 8

New bamboo charcoal tech to jumpstart African bioenergy sector, slow deforestation and climate change

Bamboo, a plant not often associated with Africa, may be the key to combating soil degradation and massive deforestation on the continent as an alternative source of energy.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Bird flu batters South African ostrich farms

Once filled with hundreds of ostriches, the fields of the Klein Karoo are strangely empty.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New software used in first global camera trap mammal study

A novel software system developed by researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been used in the first global camera trap study of mammals, which made international ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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