About Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,221,532 km² (11,668,545 sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area, and 20.4% of the total land area. With more than 900,000,000 people (as of 2005) in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. There are 46 countries including Madagascar, and 53 including all the island groups.

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Africa, particularly central eastern Africa, is widely regarded within the scientific community to be the origin of humans and the Hominidae tree (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their possible ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago – including Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Australopithecus africanus, A. afarensis, Homo erectus, H. habilis and H. ergaster – with the earliest Homo sapiens (human) found in Ethiopia being dated to ca. 200,000 years ago, according to this view.

Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones. Because of the lack of natural regular precipitation and irrigation as well as glaciers or mountain aquifer systems, there is no natural moderating effect on the climate except near the coasts."

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1. “ Do not tell me that food is currently expensive because of bio-diesel. Food is expensive because the world was not prepared to see millions of Chinese eat, millions of Indians eat, millions of Africans eat, millions of Brazilians and Latin Americans eat three meals a day. ”

   In Brazil responds to criticism of biofuel

2. “ The success that Brazil has achieved in food production can be done in Africa. ”

   In Brazilian president denies biofuels to blame for world food crisis

3. “ The success that Brazil has achieved in food production can be done in Africa. ”

   In Brazil at odds with UN over biofuels

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2. Ethanol is Not a Bargain

   Hawaii Reporter (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

   ... your mother would tell you to eat everything on your plate because there were starving children in Africa (or China, or India)? We usually responded, “then send it to them.” Those places were far away.... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Australia   Starbucks   Haiti

3. Food Crisis: "The greatest demonstration of the historical failure ...

   GlobalResearch.ca (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

   ...ural input packages and extension support tapered and eventually disappeared in most rural areas of Africa under SAP. Concern for boosting smallholders' productivity was abandoned. Not only were governments... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   René Préval   Uzbekistan   Senegal

4. UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis

   Environment News Service (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

   ... to the sharp hike in food and transport costs over the last few months. On a recent visit to east Africa, WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran met children at the Stara Rescue Centre and School in the N... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Japan   Ethanol Promotion and Information Council   Ban Ki-moon

5. Biofuels can't feed starving people

   The Christian Science Monitor (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

   ...nally become aware of an even more dire drama: the food crisis. Billions of people, particularly in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America, are victims of a gradual and unsustainable rise in the prices... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Japan   India   Food and Agriculture Organization

6. Mountain Views: Gas Prices Spinning Out Of Control

   Niagara Falls Reporter (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

   ...till trillions of barrels of oil around to be found and tapped, from offshore Alaska ... to coastal Africa, the South China Sea, the Gulf of Siam, Greenland, the Arctic, offshore Sakhalin, Kazakhstan, Uzbek... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Kazakhstan   Texas   Charles Schumer

7. Understanding the Global Rice Crisis

   businessweek.com (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

   ...ed. Faced with higher wheat prices, people are substituting rice in their diets, particularly so in Africa. And, of course, the demand for ethanol as an alternative fuel is linked directly to the soaring pr... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Thailand   China   Africa

8. Global Food Prices and Africa's Economic Famine

   washingtonpost.com (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

   ...he worldwide crisis with rising food prices and shrinking supplies, and in particular its impact on Africa -- which is facing its first serious food shortages caused not by drought or war, but by soaring pr... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Hampton   Haiti   Africa

9. Freescale and Chery Agree to Collaborate on Automotive Electronics ...

   businesswire.com (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

   ...uctor Asia-Pacific: Gloria Shiu, (85-22) 666-8237 gloria.shiu@freescale.com Europe, Middle East and Africa: Laurent Massicot, (33-16) 935-7712 laurent.massicot@freescale.com India: Sanjeeth Boloor, (91-80) ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Japan   Texas   Africa

10. Texas Governor Calls Ethanol Mandate “Misguided”

    findingDulcinea Home (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

    ...duction has caused of a food shortage and “a problem of high prices.” India and poor nations in Africa have called on the West to stop diverting so many crops to biofuels. Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Texas Poultry Federation   Texas   Haiti

11. On The Bright Side: Area man among those receiving honorary degrees

    The Daily Star, Oneonta, NY (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

    ...rly 30 years with the United States Department of State, working for the foreign service in Europe, Africa and South America. Upon his retirement to Cooperstown in the 1980s, he developed a scholarly intere... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Africa   Rochester   buffalo

12. Why Biotech Industry is Betting on Biofuels

    Mathaba News Network (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

    ...presentatives of civil society groups, social movements, and environmentalists from 17 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe met in Mali to discuss food and farming issues. Together they issu... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Japan   São Paulo   England

13. Residents feel pinch of high cost of living

    Home | The Dothan Eagle (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

    ...sts over prices of soybeans in Indonesia or even the burning and looting of government buildings in Africa because of soaring grain prices. She’s not thinking of the rush to plant corn for ethanol and the... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Arkansas   Australia   Africa

14. INTERVIEW-China XLX Fertilizer on export duty hike: What helps farmers ... - Forbes

    forbes.com (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

    ...inese farmers from sharp fertilizer price rises in Thailand and severe shortages in South Korea and Africa, Liu said. 'The government mechanisms and price caps haven't been used very effectively recently, e... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Liu Xingyu   China   Africa

15. INTERVIEW-China XLX Fertilizer on export duty hike: What helps ...

    forbes.com (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

    ...inese farmers from sharp fertilizer price rises in Thailand and severe shortages in South Korea and Africa, Liu said. 'The government mechanisms and price caps haven't been used very effectively recently, e... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Liu Xingyu   Thailand   China

16. INTERVIEW-China XLX Fertilizer on export duty hike: What helps farmers ... - Cnbc

    cnbc.com (Apr 28 2008) Explore Article

    ...inese farmers from sharp fertilizer price rises in Thailand and severe shortages in South Korea and Africa, Liu said. "The government mechanisms and price caps haven't been used very effectively recently, e... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Liu Xingyu   Thailand   China

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