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		<title>Fairtrade means healthy peanuts and profits in Malawi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peanut farmer Rosemary Kadzitche points to a shrivelled clump of yellowing leaves in the heart of a peanut plant at her feet. “That disease,” she says, “affected the whole crop last year. We didn’t grow anything.”
Fortunately, this year’s peanut crop in Mchinji, western Malawi, where Rosemary lives and works, looks much healthier, with only the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmers go peanuts for Fairtrade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Life has changed. I’ve built a house with fired bricks and iron sheets for the roof. I also have four cows now.&#8221;
Like most farmers in Malawi, Sandrum Kalonga has a tiny farm of some 8.5 hectares of scattered plots.
For years he sold his soya beans, maize, tobacco and groundnuts to local vendors who would peddle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boiling Point goes onto Youtube.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boiling Point - watch the video here&#8230;
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		<title>Day 14: To sleep, perchance to dream&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[20 Dec 2009
Leonie Joubert is a science writer, reporting for Independent Newspapers from the United Nations climate negotiations taking place in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December. This is her blog-on-the-side. 
Slept late. Woke feeling groggy.
Went online. Sunday Independent’s front page top story: “The Hopelesshagen flop”
It’s all over. I survived my first CoP (Conference of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 13:  Did hope die today in “Hopenhagen”?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[19 Dec 2009
Leonie Joubert is a science writer, reporting for Independent Newspapers from the United Nations climate negotiations taking place in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December. This is her blog-on-the-side. 
Just quickly. I’m shattered and need to get to bed.
By the end of the day, yesterday, it was clear that we wouldn’t get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 12: &#8230; and then Copenhagen froze</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2009/12/day-12-and-then-copenhagen-froze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[18 Dec 2009
Leonie Joubert is a science writer, reporting for Independent Newspapers from the United Nations climate negotiations taking place in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December. This is her blog-on-the-side. 
My ed wanted two things out of today: a colour piece to show what the activists and green folk were up to, and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 11: Snowed under</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[17 Dec 2009
Leonie Joubert is a science writer, reporting for Independent Newspapers from the United Nations climate negotiations taking place in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December. This is her blog-on-the-side.
Jorisna Bonthuys (my intrepid colleague from Die Burger) and I made the grave error of deciding to leave an hour later than normal (6:30am) this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 10: Morassed in the final furlong</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[16 Dec 2009
Leonie Joubert is a science writer, reporting for Independent Newspapers from the United Nations climate negotiations taking place in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December. This is her blog-on-the-side. 
Today started badly. I’m not sure if it was the lingering malaise after the off-again on-again insomnia that plagues me when I get too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 9: Time&#8217;s running out&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2009/12/day-9-times-running-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[15 Dec 2009
Leonie Joubert is a science writer, reporting for Independent Newspapers from the United Nations climate negotiations taking place in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December. This is her blog-on-the-side.
Unbelievable. It seems that the most exciting thing to happen at Copenhagen so far is the arrival of Californian governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. That’s if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 8: If it bleeds, it leads; if it’s dull, it’s&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2009/12/day-8-if-it-bleeds-it-leads-if-it%e2%80%99s-dull-it%e2%80%99s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[14 Dec 2009
Leonie Joubert is a science writer, reporting for Independent Newspapers from the United Nations climate negotiations taking place in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December. This is her blog-on-the-side.
I’m feeling a little cynical about my profession today. Here’s how today played out: in a press conference scheduled for early today, the Africa group [...]]]></description>
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