<rss version="2.0" xmlns:emm="http://emm.jrc.it" xmlns:iso="http://www.iso.org/3166" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss"><channel><description>Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm,  is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material</description><title>GDACS EMM News Feed</title><item><title>Heinz Completes Acquisition of 80% Stake in Brazilian Foodmaker to Accelerate Growth in Emerging Markets</title><link>http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/press/accelerate-growth-emerging-markets,1735213.html</link><description>PITTSBURGH - (Business Wire) H.J. Heinz Company (NYSE:HNZ) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of an 80% stake in Coniexpress S.A. 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Understanding that attention towards China’s deepening engagement with Africa should not overshadow the activities of other emerging powers in Africa, including India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa, the four research policy reports sought to develop an African perspective by strengthening the civil society voice in the discourse surrounding the engagement between Africa and these emerging powers. To this end, the research projects were themed around comparative African perspectives on China and other emerging powers in Africa by providing seed funding to African civil society organisations and activists to undertake research that can contribute to the emerging scholarship on the footprint of the emerging actors in Africa. 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It is glaring yet many seemed not to notice it. Environmental experts are mute on it; disaster managers have turned blind eyes to it while people of influence and cash rapidly destroy the environment to serve their business interests.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:19:00 +0100</pubDate><source url="http://www.ghanaweb.com/">ghanaweb</source><iso:language>en</iso:language><guid isPermaLink="false">ghanaweb-8048535364e118ffe9f7526ac22caed8</guid><category>Ecology</category><category>Environment</category><category>EnvironmentalProtection</category><category>Flooding</category></item><item><title>Turkish experts urge action to counter threats of drought</title><link>http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=as-the-most-important-assets-the-water-will-be-protected-2011-03-22</link><description>Authorities and experts are using March 22 World Water Day to urge a greater awareness of water-related problems around the world, including Turkey. ‘Not only global warming or drought but water scarcity should also be listed as global threats,’ PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:04:00 +0100</pubDate><source url="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/">hurriyetdailynews</source><iso:language>en</iso:language><guid isPermaLink="false">hurriyetdailynews-c79a92b5731ef149cb981e3c91398399</guid><category>NaturalDisasters</category><category>Agriculture</category><category>FoodSecurityFoodAid</category><category>PAC</category><category>Environment</category><category>EU-Africa</category><category>EU-Pacific</category><category>EU-Japan</category><category>EU-LatinAmerica</category><georss:point>39.9293 32.8533</georss:point></item><item><title>Rainfall Patterns Can't Be Ignored in Climate Change Debate</title><link>http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54151</link><description>In discussions of human activities that affect the climate, there is relatively little talk about alterations in rainfall patterns, despite the enormous implications that such changes have on human survival.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:33:00 +0100</pubDate><source url="http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/index.asp">ipsnews</source><iso:language>en</iso:language><guid isPermaLink="false">ipsnews-58fc14ff85ae05c9fda9fb338808921c</guid><category>Ecology</category><category>ClimateChange</category><category>ClimateAction</category><category>Environment</category><category>Agriculture</category><category>FoodSecurityFoodAid</category></item><item><title>PERU: Sacrificing the Rainforest on the Altar of Energy</title><link>http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53975</link><description>The construction of five hydroelectric dams in Peru as part of an energy deal with Brazil will do considerable damage to the environment, such as the destruction of nearly 1.5 million hectares of jungle over the next 20 years, according to an independent study.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:33:00 +0100</pubDate><source url="http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/index.asp">ipsnews</source><iso:language>en</iso:language><guid isPermaLink="false">ipsnews-b039351e12fee4888556a04f10aa49c2</guid><category>Ecology</category><category>ClimateAction</category><category>Environment</category><category>RegionalPolicy</category><category>AlternativeEnergy</category><georss:point>-12.0824 -77.0454</georss:point></item><item><title>With all the rain in L.A., it's now official: La Nina is a bust</title><link>http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-0322-weather-records-m,0,576074.story?track=rss</link><description>Let us go easy on beleaguered meteorologists, even as we set umbrellas and rubber boots by the door for another week of weeping gray skies.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:24:00 +0100</pubDate><source url="http://www.latimes.com">latimes</source><iso:language>en</iso:language><guid isPermaLink="false">latimes-e9a7c49f1f568d3babf88ba035f57178</guid></item><item><title>Weatherwatch: Heavy rains hit the Phillipines</title><link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2011/mar/22/weatherwatch-rain-floods-phillipines</link><description>Heavy rains hit central and southern parts of the Philippines last week, triggering floods and landslides which killed at least nine people and affected up to 150,000 others. 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Most of us who have navigated our way through these various disconcerting milestones would now, I think, acknowledge that turning 40 is not quite what it used to be. Mid-life crises these days tend to be delayed another decade or so, and it’s not until you’re 60 that anxieties about....</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:04:00 +0100</pubDate><source url="http://www.crisisgroup.org/">crisisgroup</source><iso:language>en</iso:language><guid isPermaLink="false">crisisgroup-3d425474d4e03e28c632ae372758e8d3</guid><category>HumanRights</category><category>Conflict</category><category>MilleniumGoals</category><category>TerroristAttack</category><category>G8</category><category>SecurityCouncil</category><category>DohaRound</category><category>JRCSafeguards</category><category>PeaceKeeping</category><category>Society</category><category>JRCNuclearSecurity</category><category>UNbodies</category></item><item><title>'Avoid disaster on our shores'</title><link>http://www.mg.co.za/article/2011-03-18-avoid-disaster-on-our-shores/</link><description>The government has five sites in mind for new nuclear plants: Schulpfontein and Brazil in the northern Cape, Bantamsklip near Gansbaai, Thyspunt and a second reactor at Koeberg. 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Most of us who have navigated our way through these various disconcerting milestones would now, I think, acknowledge that turning 40 is not quite what it used to be. Mid-life crises these days tend to be delayed another decade or so, and it’s not until you’re 60 that anxieties about....</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:51:00 +0100</pubDate><source url="http://www.crisisgroup.org/">crisisgroup</source><iso:language>en</iso:language><guid isPermaLink="false">crisisgroup-3d425474d4e03e28c632ae372758e8d3</guid><category>HumanRights</category><category>Conflict</category><category>MilleniumGoals</category><category>TerroristAttack</category><category>G8</category><category>SecurityCouncil</category><category>DohaRound</category><category>JRCSafeguards</category><category>PeaceKeeping</category><category>Society</category><category>JRCNuclearSecurity</category><category>UNbodies</category></item><item><title>Does the United Nations Have a Future?</title><link>http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/publication-type/speeches/2005/does-the-united-nations-have-a-future.aspx</link><description>Turning 40 . Most of us who have navigated our way through these various disconcerting milestones would now, I think, acknowledge that turning 40 is not quite what it used to be. 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Most of us who have navigated our way through these various disconcerting milestones would now, I think, acknowledge that turning 40 is not quite what it used to be. 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If your answer is 'not yet', then prepare yourself because things may be about to change significantly. 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