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		<title>Female rapists&#8230; my unanswered questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mukundi Mutasa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who have been following the &#8216;crime scene&#8217; in Zimbabwe, the story of the three &#8216;female rapists&#8217; arrested in Gweru would not be a new revelation. For some&#8211;relatives, friends, foes and victims alike&#8211;the three are well known to them. Their faces, including that of the 24 year old &#8216;female rapists pimp&#8217; were even splashed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukundi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2095751&amp;post=95&amp;subd=mukundi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How sustainable is migration as a climate change adaptation strategy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mukundi Mutasa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mukundi Mutasa When faced with a crisis, withdrawal—commonly referred to as migration—is often taken as a coping alternative. Although there are loads of factors contributing to migration, “it is now increasingly recognized that environmental degradation and climate change are major drivers in both forced and voluntary migration,” argues the United Nations Environment Programme. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukundi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2095751&amp;post=96&amp;subd=mukundi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ruthless! Cruel! Mweya! Famba zvakanaka</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mukundi Mutasa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mukundi Mutasa It is past midnight (well it was when I wrote this). I sit on my bed. I am a stranger to sleep, and sleep avoids me. This is not because I have had a boring day preceding this night. Neither did I fight with my girlfriend—I’m soon corrected—fiancée. Some thought crossed my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukundi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2095751&amp;post=91&amp;subd=mukundi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humanity and forest habitants commemorate WED 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mukundi Mutasa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Environment Day, commemorated every June 5, brings to the fore environmental issues and the socio-ecological relationships at play. WED was set aside for this purpose starting in 1973 after it was established at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1972. The conference is commonly referred to as the Stockholm [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukundi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2095751&amp;post=72&amp;subd=mukundi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabwe tries to go green… or does it?</title>
		<link>http://mukundi.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/zimbabwe-tries-to-go-green%e2%80%a6-or-does-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mukundi Mutasa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanitation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Mukundi Mutasa Barely two weeks after Zimbabwean media reported a consumer outcry regarding the ‘ban on plastics bags’, has the Environmental Management Agency attempted to clarify the position. Statutory Instrument 98 of 2010 “gives directives that retailers and all other manufacturers should stop distributing carrier bags below 30 microns,” an official of EMA, Estas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukundi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2095751&amp;post=66&amp;subd=mukundi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When spirituality meets ecology</title>
		<link>http://mukundi.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/bookreview1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mukundi Mutasa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Knowledge Systems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mukundi Mutasa The NewsDay (Zimbabwe) of 16 November 2010 ran an article about how religion is one of the missing links in the fight against climate change. In the article, Peter Makwanya, laments the lack of acknowledging the roles that God gave to humanity and how Christianity can be integral in healing the climate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukundi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2095751&amp;post=52&amp;subd=mukundi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marrying indigenous knowledge and modern science sustains agriculture</title>
		<link>http://mukundi.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/marrying-indigenous-knowledge-and-modern-science-sustains-agriculture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mukundi Mutasa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture; Indigenous knowledge systems; Rainfall prediction indicators]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Mukundi Mutasa The importance of indigenous knowledge in agricultural sustainability has been repeatedly talked about, yet on the ground it is only applied sparingly. The President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Kanayo Nwanze, recently said that local communities should be empowered to blend traditional knowledge systems with modern technology as a step [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukundi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2095751&amp;post=47&amp;subd=mukundi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabwe: Rural agriculture banks on women</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mukundi Mutasa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The immense role that women play in rural agricultural production has been previously underestimated. This has been a subject of a number of researches, yet this lack of recognition of women&#8217;s contribution in agriculture and rural development has persisted. Women, who make up the majority of rural agricultural producers, are the backbone of food supply, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukundi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2095751&amp;post=45&amp;subd=mukundi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Return from sabbatical</title>
		<link>http://mukundi.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/return-from-sabbatical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mukundi Mutasa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alerts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  After a sabbatical of more than two years, I will track myself back to blogging beginning in the coming two weeks. I have missed this, really I have, but I still need some days to brainstorm on the story ideas, gather the necessary information, and make sure I write credible and informative updates. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukundi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2095751&amp;post=30&amp;subd=mukundi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Water, our Life!</title>
		<link>http://mukundi.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/our-water-our-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mukundi Mutasa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Mukundi Mutasa Africa joins the rest of the world in commemorating the World Water Day on 22 March fully aware that availability of water is of paramount importance to sustaining livelihoods on the continent.  The theme for this year’s World Water Day is ’sanitation matters’. It is also coinciding with the United Nations International [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mukundi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2095751&amp;post=20&amp;subd=mukundi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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