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		<title>A gender crisis, a global opportunity</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/10/a-gender-crisis-a-global-opportunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JGreenblatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging for Water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may be woman, but I can’t hear you roar. In fact, I can’t hear you at all. Maybe it is because you don’t really have time.  No one can blame you. But maybe if you, and the hundreds of millions of women across the developing world trapped in similar situations, weren’t forced to waste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa&#8217;s hunger hardships spur biotech debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juhie Bhatia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggers Unite!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was commissioned as part of a Pulitzer Center/Global Voices Online series on Food Insecurity that draw on multimedia reporting featured on the Pulitzer Gateway to Food Insecurity. Share your own story here. Sunset over farmland in South Africa by Irene2005 on Flickr While there have been significant increases in agricultural productivity in Asia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ending poverty: our discussion, our vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KwasiSelassie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young people have the talent and creativity to end poverty. It is our inherited problem, and we must solve it together. The Kwasi Selassie Poverty Discussion is a blog space for young people who want to share possibilities, solutions and experiences in the effort to end poverty across the globe. It is my greatest pleasure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tostan and the Jokko Initiative: mobile technology amplifying social change</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/05/tostan-and-the-jokko-initiative-mobile-technology-amplifying-social-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 13:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GuillaumeDebar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cell Phones & Social Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With mobile phone networks rapidly expanding to reach the vast majority of Senegalese citizens, and with mobile phones already commonplace in even the most remote villages, mobile technology quickly appeared to us as to be a promising new pedagogical tool for literacy.]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile literacies – bridging the gap between phone and book</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/05/mobile-literacies-%e2%80%93-bridging-the-gap-between-phone-and-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 21:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marion Walton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The limitations of mobile access mean that it is still an urgent priority to improve computer access in schools and libraries, particularly in rural areas, and to make broadband internet access more affordable for all South African households.]]></description>
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		<title>Woman or man, only their works will speak</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/03/woman-or-man-only-their-works-will-speak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zoneziwoh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[African women face many constraints and discrimination which affect them economically. Though women with economic power tend to make positive choices for their families and communities, too often they are deprived of the opportunity.]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya: Severe drought affects millions</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/01/kenya-severe-drought-affects-millions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Liebhardt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Youth in humanitarian crises]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drought in rural Kenya has resulted in a lack of food and water, but has also caused violence, uprooted communities, and disrupted the education and lives of young people.]]></description>
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		<title>Graça Machel on Africa &amp; the Financial Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/07/graca-machel-on-africa-the-financial-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Ford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Meltdown & Women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the people who helps me understand the impact of the economic crisis on women is Graca Machel, the passionate advocate for women and children and a former Minister of Education and Culture in Mozambique.  She knows what it&#8217;s like for African households to go hungry; she understands the struggle of African women to [...]]]></description>
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