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FARM-Africa’s new fund, the Maendeleo Agricultural Enterprise Fund (MAEF) has opened its call for Concept Notes for its newly launched Competitive Value Chain Fund.

Maendeleo Agricultural Enterprise Fund aims to increase agricultural productivity in East Africa sustainably, generate income and to lift rural households out of poverty and food insecurity.


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Western hedge funds have begun buying up vast parcels of land all over Africa. According to a series of new reports by the Oakland Institute, over 148 million acres in the last three years alone have been purchased -- that's an area larger than California.

The reports say the purchased land is often used to produce export commodities -- including biofuels, cut flowers and specialize

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One of the core functions of the police is to protect, life but this time an officer saved a life by donating his entire July salary to the Kenyans4Kenya relief kitty.

Police Constable Hashim Mohammed Elmoge was moved by the story of a child who continued suckling her mother long after she had died.

“I had heard that people were going hungry, but had not imagined how serious it was until I
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On Tuesday this week, Daily Monitor newspaper in Uganda reported the death of two people in the eastern district of Bulambuli. Local authorities there said the two had died due to hunger. They also warned that the deaths could be more.

In a desperate pleas the local areas leader had pleaded,“ hunger is killing us, please we are asking government to come to our rescue, our children have abandon

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It could have been an ordinary Saturday anywhere, with happy children ranging in age from six to sixteen playing football in the jerseys of their favourite soccer teams. My eye was caught by the boy with dazzling teeth dribbling the ball in a Chelsea shirt emblazoned with the name of Frank Lampard.

Except this was Dadaab in Kenya, home of the world’s largest refugee camp, and within yards of t

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Africa’s first specialist rural microfinance fund supporting fair trade and organic small business, FEFISOL, the European Solidarity Financing Fund for Africa, was launched earlier today by the European Investment Bank, Agence Française de Développement and a broad grouping of development bodies, social investors and microfinance service providers. The EUR 15 million FEFISOL fund will provide muc

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