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26 Jun 2007
The Investment Centre is leading FAO’s collaboration in the UN Secretary General’s Special Humanitarian Envoy Initiative on Food Security in the Horn of Africa, in collaboration with the World Food Programme.
More information at : http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2007/1000613/index.html |
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24 Jan 2007
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today proposed a series of major changes in the way international food aid is managed and delivered.
More information at : http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2007/1000482/index.html |
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20 Dec 2006
A project jointly prepared by a team of experts from Mexico’s Secretariat of Agrarian Reform, the World Bank and FAO’s Investment Centre, working in the Latin America and Caribbean region, has been awarded the 2006 “Golden Plough for Innovation” for Agriculture and Rural Development by the World Bank.
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05 Dec 2006
Amid growing calls for reform and coherence among United Nations partners, the heads of the three Rome-based food and agriculture agencies demonstrated their determination to strengthen joint efforts to reduce hunger and poverty at the grassroots level by visiting Ghana’s food insecure Northern Region this week.
More information at : http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000452/index.html |
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27 Nov 2006
A two-day workshop in Dushanbe, organized by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and FAO looked into ways of expanding rural and agricultural finance in Tajikistan. Given the importance of the agricultural sector for the Tajik economy, improved access to loans and other financial services is crucial for [...] |
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26 Oct 2006
Ten years after the World Food Summit, global representatives from over 120 countries will meet in Rome next week to review just how far the world has come towards meeting the 2015 goal of reducing by half the number of hungry people in the world, then estimated at 800 [...] |
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16 Oct 2006
“Recently there has been a significant revival in lending for agriculture. Debt forgiveness programmes, strengthened by the G8 decision in 2005, have begun to release national resources for investment in agriculture. But much still remains to be done,” said FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf today.
More information at : http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000424/index.html |
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19 Sep 2006
Among the events taking place in over 150 countries to mark this year’s World Food Day on 16 October 2006, will be a five kilometre Run-for-Food race through Rome’s historical centre.
More information at : http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000397/index.html |
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04 Sep 2006
FAO’s Investment Centre is increasingly being called on to assist in the process of reviewing and advising on natural resource management.In 2004, the Government of Ghana and the World Bank identified a policy gap regarding the contribution of natural resources towards economic growth and livelihoods in Ghana. They agreed to [...] |
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07 Aug 2006
An in-depth interview with Charles Riemenschneider, Director of the FAO Investment Centre, has been published by the International Alliance Against Hunger, in connection with FAO's 2006 World Food Day theme on "Investing in Agriculture for Food Security - the whole world will profit".
More information at : http://www.iaahp.net/news_agencies_en.html#4 |
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