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20 Jul 2006
Despite a winemaking tradition that dates back several thousand years, Georgia’s greatest liquid asset – today wine is the country’s third biggest export – is at risk, threatened by counterfeiting and the wine sector’s failure to diversify its markets.
More information at : http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/field/2006/1000366/index.html |
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02 Jun 2006
More investment by governments in agriculture and the right farm policies would help keep rural populations on the land and reduce migration, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
More information at : http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000313/index.html |
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26 May 2006
Recently at a meeting of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, FAO Investment Centre’s principal adviser Michael Wales joined senior representatives of the World Bank and BMZ in a new series of ‘Platform speaking’ interviews on improving collaboration on investment in the agriculture and rural development sector. Wales [...] |
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16 May 2006
A new partnership aimed at restoring depleted fisheries and reducing poverty in Africa was launched today by the African Union (AU), the World Bank, WWF – the Global Conservation Organization, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).More information at : http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000293/index.html |
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04 May 2006
Economic growth in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia will require increased investment in agriculture as many of these economies are deeply rooted in the farm, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today at a meeting in Berlin called to ensure that agricultural [...] |
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08 Dec 2005
On 1 December 2005, FAO's Investment Centre organized a workshop in Tbilisi, in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture of Georgia and wine agency SAMTREST, to formulate a series of concrete actions to combat wine counterfeiting in Georgia.
Georgia has a long tradition in winemaking. Today, wine is the third export [...] |
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07 Dec 2005
Only days ahead of next week’s make-or-break World Trade Organization meeting in Hong Kong, where a final push will be made to reach an agreement to liberalize agricultural trade, the FAO today warned that the benefits of trade reform may not reach the poor unless urgent complementary policies and investments [...] |
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16 Nov 2005
A number of new documents are now available from the Investment Centre that can be downloaded for free from its web site under Publications.
A full set of 10 reports, published by the FAO Investment Centre/European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Cooperation Programme, can be accessed under Centre/EBRD publications. This series presents [...] |
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20 Sep 2005
Michael Wales, Principal Adviser of FAOs Investment Centre, explains why investment in rural areas is key to tackling poverty and talks about one initiative that is working to ensure that agriculture is front and centre on the poverty alleviation agenda.
FAO continues to drive home the message that more funds [...] |
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14 Sep 2005
As world leaders met at the UN Summit in New York, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today called on the international community to honour commitments to cut world hunger in half by 2015. The Rome-based food agency urged governments and private sector corporations to "adequately fund actions and [...] |
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