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05 Jun 2008
Delegates to the Rome Food Security Summit announced their increased commitment to the fight against hunger and for agricultural development.
Even though the summit was not a pledging conference, a number of donors announced firm financial contributions. The money will benefit countries hard hit by the current world food crisis, [...] |
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04 Jun 2008
An unprecedented partnership among key players in agricultural development aims to significantly boost food production in Africa’s “breadbasket regions,” link local food production to food needs, and work across Africa’s major agricultural growing areas—or agro-ecological zones—to create opportunities for smallholder farmers. Today’s agreement marks a significant transformation in the [...] |
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29 May 2008
“Coherent action is urgently needed by the international community to deal with the impact of higher prices on the hungry and poor,” Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the FAO said at a press confence launching the Outlook in Paris. “Today some 862 million people are suffering from hunger and malnourishment [...] |
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28 May 2008
The upcoming High-Level Conference on World Food Security, to take place next week in Rome (3-5 June), offers a historic chance to re-launch the fight against hunger and poverty and boost agricultural production in developing countries, FAO said today. In a key policy document specially prepared for the Summit, [...] |
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26 May 2008
The Investment Centre is pleased to promote the below new FAO website. This digital agricultural atlas was produced by FAO’s Environment, Environmental Assessment and Management Unit in collaboration with the Centre.
26 May 2008, Bangkok – FAO has launched a new website offering a wide range of data and information [...] |
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29 Apr 2008
FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf today called on the international community not only to take immediate action to de-fuse the current world food emergency but also to seize the opportunities offered by higher food prices and prevent similar dramatic situations occurring in the future.
In a statement published on the FAO [...] |
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11 Apr 2008
"...FAO urges all donors and International Financing Institutions to increase their assistance or consider reprogramming part of their ongoing aid in countries negatively affected by high food prices. A tentative estimation of the additional funding required by the governments to implement country projects and programmes for dealing with soaring [...] |
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09 Apr 2008
Dr Diouf said: “It is essential to increase agricultural investment in water control and infrastructure and to facilitate small farmer access to inputs, so they can raise their productivity.” He stressed the importance of effective marketing and processing systems for agricultural products. “Agro-industry helps preserve foodstuffs, add value and [...] |
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31 Mar 2008
In view of severe consequences posed by climate change on the agricultural, rural and land use sectors, particularly for developing countries and food security, a ”Private Sector Stakeholder Consultation and Dialogue on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy“, was organized by the FAO Investment [...] |
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10 Mar 2008
In the context of soaring world food prices, senior government officials from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are meeting with executives from the private agribusiness sector to seek concrete proposals to boost agricultural investments and unlock unused output potential.
More information at : http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2008/1000808/index.html |
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