[RED DEMOCRATICA] Report: Change African trade rules on food to spur growth

 

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	October 25, 2012 | News covering the UN and the world Sign up  |  E-Mail this  |  Donate Report: Change African trade rules on food to spur growth African farmers provide only 5% of the continent's cereal imports, and a World Bank report says that easing trade rules and fees among countries would encourage cross-border commerce in food -- and generating $20 billion annually for governments. "Too often borders get in the way of getting food to homes and communities which are struggling with too little to eat," said Makhtar Diop, the bank's vice president for Africa. 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The truce's prospects for success were unclear, as fighting broke out in Hama and the Damascus suburb of Harasta. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (10/24), Al-Jazeera (10/25), The Christian Science Monitor (10/24), BBC (10/25)      Other News Russia calls UN leaks "scandalous," proposes stripping violators of accreditation Reuters (10/24)      Syria's Assad asked to grant access to UN war crimes team Reuters (10/25)      Escaping the resource curse: Will Africa invest? Over-reliance on mineral resources and political corruption threatens to mire African countries in a cycle of the "resource curse," making them highly vulnerable to market forces, according to a paper from the European Centre for Development Policy Management. Angola and Nigeria are cited, as each has less than 3% of the world's oil and gas but garner nearly all export revenue from the resources. 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