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FAO News and Highlights 1996
- Rwandese refugees: a
return to hope
(20 December 1996) - Irrigation schemes to
keep young people on the farm
(18 December 1996) - New land law entitles
people to security in Mozambique
(11 December 1996) - Seeds and tools to
transform returning refugees into food producers
(6 December 1996) - The crisis in the Great
Lakes region and eastern Zaire - FAO Media Brief
(2 December 1996) - FAO advance team flies
into Rwanda
(2 December 1996) - CIS countries respond to market changes, says FAO, but on-farm investment remains tightly constrained (27 November 1996)
- Africa's natural guard
protects key crops
(6 November 1996) - Growing urban farms
provide useful greens and earnings for poor
(31 October 1996) - The First World
Conference on Calcium and Vitamin D in Human Life
(25 October 1996) - Musicians hit right note
-- food for all
(31 October 1996) - New Global Terrestrial
Observing System launched on Web
(4 October 1996) - New home page for FAO's
Economic and Social Department
(1 October 1996) - First farm-to-farm
picture of Chinese countryside
(1 October 1996) - Southern Somalia faces
serious food difficulties
(1 October 1996) - Calls for greater
pesticide controls
(19 September 1996) - NGOs voice common
concerns over food plan
(19 September 1996) - NGOs prepare the ground
for Food Summit
(19 September 1996) - North Korean food
supplies plunge further
(13 September 1996) - Sri Lanka faces rice
crop losses
(28 August 1996) - Tropical fruit market
set to ripen
(16 August 1996) - International campaigns
to eradicate cattle plague
(9 August 1996) - Rinderpest -- the toll
and treatment of a plague
(9 August 1996) - Experts adopt blueprint
to eradicate cattle plague
(9 August 1996) - FAO regional
offices
(9 August 1996) - New office in the
field
(9 August 1996) - Rwanda harvest grows, but
600,000 still need emergency food aid
(30 July 1996) - Experts meet to highlight
links between population and food security
(17 July 1996) - World community approves action plan for plant
genetic resources for food and agriculture
(27 June 1996) - Desert locust on the
move in the Sahel
(25 June 1996) - Iraq still faces
shortages despite oil-for-food deal
(24 June 1996) - Pesticide Clean-Ups (10 June 1996)
- Unused pesticides in developing countries: 100 000 tonnes, poorly stored, threaten health and environment (10 June1996)
- Backgrounder on FAO's
Electronic Conference on Conflict Resolution in Community
Forestry
(7 June 1996) - Conflict and
forestry: an electronic conference on conflict
resolution
(7 June 1996) - Future Food Security
Patchy for Developing Countries
(6 June 1996) - Brief country-specific
descriptions of food security in Africa
(1 June 1996) - Global Food Supplies
Tight, Prices Up: Food security "precarious" in
Sub-Saharan Africa
(1 June 1996) - River Blindness and
Agriculture: Disease decline means vast tracts open
for sustainable farming
(1 June 1996)
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