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Monday 20 May

A worker prunes vines on the Beyerskloof vineyard, part of the Boland wine estate, 67% owned by black people, Western Cape 2005. South Africa aims to restrict private and foreign land ownership in a new draft reform policy released Wednesday that aims to overhaul lagging efforts to transfer farms to the black majority.

Bulletin: S.Africa unveils new land reform draft policy

Bulletin: S.Africa unveils new land reform draft policy

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A girl shows a barbary fig in Skhour Rhamna region near Marrakech in Morocco. Oil from the plant, celebrated as an effective anti-ageing skin potion, is following argan oil as a significant cosmetic export from the north African nation.

Bulletin: Morocco taps benefits of Barbary fig oil

Bulletin: Morocco taps benefits of Barbary fig oil

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Workers on South Africa's renowned wine and fruit farms face unfit housing and exposure to pesticides and are blocked from forming labour unions, a new study said.

Bulletin: 'Inhumane conditions' in S.African wine farms

Bulletin: 'Inhumane conditions' in S.African wine farms

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, pictured in May 2011. Mugabe's land reforms have cost the economy $12 billion in lost agricultural production over the past decade, the mainly white Commercial Farmers' Union said Wednesday.

Bulletin: Zimbabwe land reform cost $12bn: farmers

Bulletin: Zimbabwe land reform cost $12bn: farmers

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An aerial view taken on July 19, 2011 shows the Dolo Ado refugee camp in southern Ethiopia surrounded by arid lanscape. Ethiopia's leasing of vast swathes of arable land to foreign and state-owned firms risks adding to the millions of people already requiring food aid in the drought-struck region, a US based think-tank warned on Friday.

Bulletin: Ethiopia land lease risks displacement: report

Bulletin: Ethiopia land lease risks displacement: report

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Germany's Africa policy coordinator on Thursday blamed China's practice of buying up land in the Horn of Africa for contributing to the devastating drought ravaging the region.

Bulletin: Germany blames Chinese land buys for Africa drought

Bulletin: Germany blames Chinese land buys for Africa drought

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South African-born farmer Piet Kemp, who found a new home in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, is pictured near the eastern Georgia's village of Sartichala. Shaken by violent attacks and reforms to transfer land to blacks in South Africa, many white farmers have been emigrating, and some are now relocating to Georgia to set up businesses under a programme launched by the government.

Bulletin: White South African farmers seek new life in Georgia

Bulletin: White South African farmers seek new life in Georgia

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Disgruntled farmers in Gezira state -- home to one of the world's largest irrigation projects, between the Blue and White Nile rivers -- do not bear witness to Sudan's would-be agricultural revolution.

Bulletin: In Sudan's breadbasket, a revolution is waiting to happen

Bulletin: In Sudan's breadbasket, a revolution is waiting to happen

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An undated handout picture from the Sudanese ministry of agriculture and dams shows the Roseires dam in the Blue Nile state in northern Sudan. Sudan is aggressively seeking to tap its abundant Nile waters with new dam projects as the oil-rich south's independence looms, but experts warn of the social and environmental costs, and the bearing on the Nile water sharing dispute.

Bulletin: Sudan seeks to tap 'blue gold' with new dam projects

Bulletin: Sudan seeks to tap 'blue gold' with new dam projects

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Desert locusts strip a thorn bush near Dakar airport in Senegal in 2004. The UN food agency warned on Tuesday that concentrations of locusts in southwestern Madagascar are at risk of turning into a plague and could threaten the livelihoods of 13 million people.

Bulletin: UN warns of locust plague risk in Madagascar

Bulletin: UN warns of locust plague risk in Madagascar

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