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ExceedFoods.Com – African Food Retailer – Market For West African Food

This website is a simple commercial undertaking offering a range of Nigerian Foods to expatriates in the United States.

 

 

 

from: Exceed Foods (click image for full story online)

 

 

The company is clearly an e-commerce company which has built a management team of Nigerians who are able to [...]

WWF and World’s Second Largest Brewer Return Water in South Africa

SAB Ltd, is funding water saving projects to compensate for its potential water consumption of 14 billion litres a year in South Africa. WWF (World Wildlife Fund) is facilitating the “water neutrality process” with a South African Government Project to ensure that this is not just a multinational greenwashing!

 

 

 

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The return of the “curvy cucumber and the knobbly carrot” to EU supermarkets.

Consumers in Europe are likely to increasingly see fruit and vegetables with less than perfect appearance (the so called “wonky” produce) on their supermarket shelves from July 2009 as the EU tries to reduce its bureaucracy

 

Vegetables

 

Attractive and wholesome fruit and vegetables like these feed the world but have, over [...]

Apple iPhone in South Africa

What is Apple doing to us in South Africa?

According to this email from Apple, the iPhone launches tomorrow.

 

 

But yesterday

the iStore could not tell me the price the iStore could not tell me the carrier contracts that would apply

and today the carrier Vodacom could not tell be

when the phone [...]

The Science / Food balance of the French

I found this well thumbed book in a house where I lived in France.

photo by Dave Harcourt (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License)

 

Knowing and having lived the French “obsession” with food for three months I feel it might be interesting to look at its contents a bit deeper. You can [...]

Ghanian Government Launches Composite Flours

Several articles in Ghanian newspapers refer to the 25th June launch of a composite cassava/maize flour. It is Manufactured by Women in Agriculture Development of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

from: The Statesman (click image for full story online)

 

from: The Ghanian Journal (click image for full story online)

 

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Waste – only until there’s a use!

Waste cooking oil becomes a valuable feedstock and encourages crime. [...]

Three Solar Dryer Designs – Link

Following on the link to a simple overview by the GATE programme of GTZ, the article below gives practical details of three solar dryer designs.

from: GTZ GATE (click image for full story online)

 

This paper presents the characteristics of three solar driers. A 15 US$ tent drier, a 400 US$ box [...]

Obama Larger

While the article links Kenyan beer to Senator Obama (the son of a Kenyan) now running as presidential candidate of the US, it is of more interest for information on selling alcoholic beverages to consumers at the bottom of the pyramid

from: San Francisco Chronicle (click image for full story online)

 

Consumers [...]

Tshwane – Traffic Testing Centres

The Record has run two front page articles on the Waltloo Testing Station.

While I am happy to say my daughter passed her license at Waltloo yesterday, the process lead to my watching what happens at the Centurion Testing Centre for many hours. Its just as bad as or worse than the Waltloo situation.

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