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Monday, 22 February 2010 |
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The School of Development Studies invites you to a seminar by Clive Coetzee titled: The economics of South African cities.
As of this year, SDS seminars will be brown bag seminars, so feel free to bring along your lunch. The paper can be downloaded and the presentation and discussion will proceed on the assumption that people who attend the seminar have read the paper.
Date: Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Development Studies Seminar Room, F213, MTB at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
Queries:
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Clive Coetzee is Manager of Inter-governmental Relations and
Economist in the Treasury, Provincial Government of KwaZulu-Natal. He
worked previously in the Department of Economics, University of
KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg. He has, inter-alia, worked on
developing economic models of the economy of KwaZulu-Natal.
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Monday, 22 February 2010 |
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Date: Thursday,
25th February 2010
Time: 17h30
- 19h00
Venue:
Durban Botanic Gardens, Visitors Centre
Please RSVP to
Dorothy Lutchmiah on 031 311 4277 or Lutchmiahd@durban.gov.za for seating purposes
As part of the commitment to
host the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in an environmentally sustainable way
there was a strong emphasis in achieving energy and water saving during
the construction of the Moses Mabhida Stadium. The purpose of
this open forum is to present on overview of key energy and water savings
initiatives that were implemented in the stadium. The Open
Forum will start with two 30 minute presentations
- Ken Woodley:
Moses Mabhida Stadium Energy Saving Initiatives
- Ganny Govender:
Wet Services Engineering
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
Project launched to ring urban areas with thousands of small farms in bid to reverse agricultural decline
Cuba has launched an ambitious project to ring urban areas with
thousands of small farms in a bid to reverse the country’s agricultural
decline and ease its chronic economic woes. The five-year plan calls
for growing fruits and vegetables and raising livestock in four
mile-wide rings around 150 of Cuba’s cities and towns, with the
exception of the capital Havana. The island’s authorities hope
suburban farming will make food cheaper and more abundant, cut
transportation costs and encourage urban dwellers to leave bureaucratic
jobs for more productive labour. But the government will continue to
hold a monopoly on most aspects of food production and distribution,
including its control of most of the land in the communist-run nation.
The pilot programme for the project is being conducted in the
central city of Camaguey, which the Cuban agriculture ministry has said
eventually will have 1,400 small farms covering 52,000 hectares
(128,490 acres), just minutes outside the town. The farms, mostly in
private hands but also including some cooperatives and state-owned
enterprises, must grow everything organically, and the ministry expects
they will produce 75% of the food for the city of 320,000 people, with
big state-owned farms providing the rest.
From “Cuba plans city farms to ease economy woes“, by Marc Frank, the Guardian UK
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 |
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Last Minute Market
(LMM) is a project where shops and producers who have unsold food which
would otherwise be discarded are linked with people and charities who
need food. Originating in Bologna, it is active in more than 40 Italian
towns, with 2 new projects under development in Argentina and Brazil.
LMM offers services to enterprises and institutions in order to prevent
and reduce waste production at its origin. It also develops innovative
services for the recovery and reuse of unsold goods. Since the
introduction of the Italian anti–waste law in 2008, non-food items can
also be recovered.
LMM has 6 different and interrelated areas of activities:
* Food- unsold food which is still edible
* Harvest- vegetables not harvested which would be rejected by retailers due to cosmetic reasons or weather damage
* Seeds- seeds that do not conform with market standards
* Catering- products not served by public and private catering
* Books- unsold books that would otherwise be destroyed
* Pharmacy- unsold pharmaceuticals which can be used to meet the health needs of socially disadvantaged people
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