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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Subsidies and the Africa problem Billions of taxpayer dollars are helping destroy African waters	Andrew Sharpless	16 Dec 2007	Gristmill
After exhausting commercial seafood stocks off their own shores decades ago, wealthy nations turned their bows toward the pristine populations off the coast of Africa. In the 1990s, the European Union took more than a million pounds of fish out of African waters annually; the former Soviet states took about 2.5 million pounds. The result has been predictable: a steep decline in biomass along the African coast. Meanwhile, African nations took a sliver of th ...
Topics: Mozambique, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

Regular Folk Human compost boosts harvests in Mozambique		17 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Regular Folk Human compost boosts harvests in Mozambique The more than 2,500 residents of Mozambique's impoverished village of Matimangwe have harnessed the power of their poo to fertilize their crops, and the village is now on the road to sustainable food production and development. Thanks to a human-waste compost latrine system called EcoSan, villagers have seen a major difference in the size of their harve ...
Topics: Mozambique, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Mozam-piqued		16 May 2002	Daily Grist
Mozam-piqued Mozambique has decided to proceed with a $520 million plan to build a harbor and industrial free-trade zone on its pristine southern coast, a decision that has outraged environmentalists. The plan seems likely to put an end to efforts to establish a transnational conservation area stretching from St. Lucia in South Africa through Swaziland and into the Maputo Elephant ...
Topics: Africa, land stewardship, marine life, Mozambique, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

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