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Senegal MDG plan ignores climate change

Senegal’s progress review of its Poverty Reduction Strategy overlooks the risks posed by climate change.

Published April 28, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change, poverty reduction, senegal

Europeans fish for biofuels in Senegal

Egged on by European energy companies, Senegal has ambitious plans for producing biodiesel from jatropha. The country also targets self-sufficiency in food. Is there a contradiction here?

Published March 1, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged biofuels, food security, senegal
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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things