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29 Nov 2010
Rise in food prices make structural changes urgent
23 November 2010, Abu Dhabi - The key to long-term food security lies in boosting investment in agriculture, particularly in low-income food-deficit countries, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said today.The rapid increase in hunger and malnourishment since the food crisis of 2008 reveals the [...] |
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25 Nov 2010
The Governments of Ethiopia, Mongolia and Niger got a big boost in their fight against poverty and hunger when they were awarded grants totaling USD 97 million from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), a multi-donor funding mechanism.
FAO welcomes this latest round of GAFSP funding, which will bolster [...] |
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29 Oct 2010
EBRD grains and oilseeds roundtable
28 October 2010
Joint statement from the EBRD, the UN’s FAO and leading grains and oilseeds companies
The EBRD, with the support of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, held a workshop in London on 28 October with senior representatives from the largest global and local companies in [...] |
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20 Oct 2010
Public-Private Partnerships Key to Modernizing Russia s Agricultural Curriculum
20 October 2010, Moscow - Cooperation between the public and private sector is crucial to reinvigorate Russia's agricultural education system, a study presented in Moscow today finds. The study was commissioned by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and carried [...] |
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13 Oct 2010
13 October 2010, Istanbul - The countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia have vast untapped agricultural resources and can play a vital role in improving world food security, the FAO and EBRD said at the opening of a two-day meeting in Istanbul today.
With global demand for food, [...] |
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08 Oct 2010
7 October 2010, Barisal and Khulna, Bangladesh - At first glance it looks like another of Bangladesh's hundreds of rivers − that is, until the half-submerged houses and blackened trees come into view.
Thousands of acres of rice paddy have been under water in Koira Upazila (sub-district) in southern Bangladesh since Cyclone Aila [...] |
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06 Oct 2010
Barisal and Khulna, Bangladesh – Shefali Rani, a Bangladeshi woman in her fifties, dreams of starting her own paper bag making business one day. And it is her pregnant goat – her sole asset – that holds the key to that dream, she says.
“I hope to sell one of the [...] |
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01 Oct 2010
FAO partnered with the Government of Iraq and the World Bank in the preparation of a Country Water Resources Assistance Strategy which helped to identify roles for donors for critical support needed in the water resources and irrigation sector. The Investment Centre provided advisory support to the Government and helped [...] |
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29 Sep 2010
Developing countries provide key momentum in global economic development in the current financial atmosphere that has high-income countries lagging behind. A new World Bank handbook, The Day After Tomorrow: A Handbook on the Future of Economic Policy in the Developing World, claims that almost half of global growth comes now [...] |
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28 Sep 2010
The FAO Investment Centre contributed to the preparation of the Environment Management Plan in support of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH) for Morocco presently featured by the World Bank at:http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22562596~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html |
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