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Niger RiverImporting technical knowledge from Zimbabwean migrants is part of the Nigerian government’s plan to increase food self-sufficiency.

The Nigerian government is inviting foreign farmers and giving them 1,000 hectares of land with 25-year leases in the agricultural hub of Shonga in order to improve food production, Reuters reports.

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Video: Discussing Water at World Water Week in Stockholm

J. Carl Ganter, director of Circle of Blue, Rob Kerr, vice president of GlobeScan, and other water experts at World Water Week in Stockholm discuss the findings of the Circle of Blue | Globescan global water survey.

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ASPEN — AIGA, the professional association for design, gathered some of the most innovative students in design last week

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BBC presenter Nik Gowing moderates the closing session of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Summit in Dubai November 9. Photo by Dana Smillie/WEF

DUBAI — It’s no news that our house is on fire. And what room isn’t burning? Financial systems, climate, environment, water, energy, media — they’re all melting. The alarms keep coming in.

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For three days last week, Tianjin’s TEDA district was home to 1,400 established and up-and-coming global business leaders attending the World Economic Forum’s “New Champions” conference

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Internship – Multimedia News

Circle of Blue, the journalism and science project reporting the global freshwater crisis, seeks one or more interns for Summer 2009, Fall 2009, and Winter 2010. Circle of Blue is the leading news organization at the front lines of global freshwater crisis, reporting with solid journalism and science the extreme challenges and the complexity of solutions.

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CSRwire’s new monthly series profiling selected member organizations has chosen Circle of Blue as its first feature.

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Original video available online at ITT Watermark

STOCKHOLM – This year’s World Water Week convened a panel of communications and water experts from ITT and SustainAbility to discuss solutions to the global water challenge.

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From space, the Earth appears as a simple Circle of Blue

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Students to develop solutions to global water crisis in first annual “Aspen Design Challenge”

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