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		<title>Reaping the rewards of Conservation Agriculture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paulina Banda is a 41-year-old woman and married, the family has three children; two boys and one girl, aged 21, 15 and 6 respectively. She is a primary school dropout from Kamowa Village, Group Village Head Stande in the area of Traditional Authority Kunthembwe in Blantyre District. Paulina’s household is one of the many vulnerable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing about us without us!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Informal Cross Border Trade (ICBT) has the potential to contribute significantly to economic, sustainable growth and development in southern Africa. It is estimated that ICBT in Africa contributes about 43 percent of official gross domestic product. So far there has been substantial proportion of informal cross border trade transactions in sub-Saharan Africa that includes staple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balaka and Blantyre farmers build resilience to climate change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travelling between the Malawi’s capital Lilongwe and Blantyre the commercial city can be exciting. The five-hour journey takes you through three districts of Dedza, Ntcheu and Balaka. The latter is regarded as a rain shadow area but also its one of the districts normally hit with prolonged dry spells during the rainy season. Cotton is [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PPillay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A delayed live video of the panel discussion presented by Oxfam focusing on the Brazilian experience in addressing poverty, hunger and inequality. Held in Durban on March 14th, 2013.]]></description>
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		<title>Cash transfer or food aid?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PPillay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Zilani Khonje You see, the politics of food aid in Malawi is quite interesting. Food aid or cash transfer? Whose voice matters in making decisions on what those missing their food entitlements should get? To me it is the major donors such as the World Food Program (WFP)! Not that I am saying they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Behind the Brands’ launch &#8211; Oxfam tackles 10 food giants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Approximately one in eight people go to bed hungry every night, while the 10 biggest food companies together generate sales of more than $1 billion a day. These companies have immense power but are failing to use it to help build a world where everyone has enough to eat. Oxfam’s GROW campaign has gone head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domestic Resource Mobilisation: A tax study of the South African economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developing countries face challenges including widespread poverty, ever increasing unemployment and widening inequalities. South Africa’s experience of these challenges has given rise in the post-Apartheid era to an examination of the nature and dynamism of income distribution and the factors that drive it; the role of fiscal policy as a redistributive tool and the progressivity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency cash transfer response to the 2012-2013 food crisis in Malawi</title>
		<link>http://www.oxfamblogs.org/southernafrica/?p=3155</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PPillay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Integrated Emergency Cash Transfer Response Project, which was implemented by Oxfam and its consortium partners and being funded by DFID UK Aid, (with co-funding from Oxfam) has targeted a total of 40,988 people and is part of the government led response to localised food insecurity in Malawi. The move is part of the response [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oxfam stands – and dances! – with one billion people to demand an end to violence against women</title>
		<link>http://www.oxfamblogs.org/southernafrica/?p=3147</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 14th, people around the world will be rising up together to protest, dance, march, and sing in a shared voice to demand an end to violence against women and girls. One Billion Rising, an inspiring global movement, couldn’t come a moment too soon. The assaults on women’s bodies that have filled global headlines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change Adaption in Midlands and Masvingo Provinces</title>
		<link>http://www.oxfamblogs.org/southernafrica/?p=3134</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Zimbabwe, climate change is affecting and has already affected many of the communities where Oxfam is working. This has occurred firstly, through gradual changes in Zimbabwe’s temperature and rainfall patterns, and secondly through an increasing frequency and/or intensity of natural hazards such as droughts and floods. These changes are affecting the poorest communities in [...]]]></description>
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