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November 1999

• One hundred and seventeenth session of FAO Council opens at Headquarters

October 1999

• United Kingdom gives $34 million for African fisheries programme
• BBC World Television focuses on food security in support of World Food Day
• Conference convenes in Melbourne to assess future of food trade agreements

September 1999

• FAO 'Tea Mark' on intergovernmental tea meeting agenda
• Rural Women and Information subject of high-level consultation

August 1999

• New forum on post-harvest management established

July 1999

• "Cultivating our futures": conference website launched
• Guide to maize marketing for extension officers

June 1999

• Bangladeshi agricultural experts to advise the Gambia
• Official reports of foot-and-mouth disease from China

May 1999

• Latest EMPRES bulletin published
• Near East regional workshop on non-wood forestry products
• International Tropical Fruits Network launched at meeting in Australia
• Desert Locust Bulletin 247 released
• School milk meeting for Europe

April 1999

• Field guide on African Animal Trypanosomiasis
• Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture meets in Rome

March 1999

• Food agencies in Rome agree to increase collaboration
• Freshwater fisheries under threat in most regions of the world
• Network to promote rabbit breeding in Mediterranean countries has first meeting
• Latest EMPRES Transboundary Animal Disease Bulletin now out
• Ministerial Meeting endorses action plans to reduce overfishing and overcapacity
• Foodcrops and Shortages reports "deteriorating" food situation in Somalia
• Mission to Lao People's Democratic Republic finds monsoon rice harvest above average
• Ministers meet to discuss forestry, fisheries and agriculture in small island developing states
• Desert Locust Bulletin 245 released
• Risk of Rift Valley Fever back down in the Horn of Africa
• Special Alert for Angola - intensified fighting drives farmers from their fields
• Mission to Cambodia finds rice harvests better than expected

February 1999

• "Listening to change": development communication video available
• African swine fever spreads to Madagascar
• Desert Locust Bulletin 244 released

January 1999

• Genetic resistance to African Swine Fever under investigation
• New World Screwworm in the United Kingdom
• AG21 spotlights dangers of intensifying livestock production
• 62nd Session of Committee on Commodity Problems
• Desert Locust Bulletin 243 released
• Special Report: Sudan
• Special Report: Ethiopia

December 1998

• How much cocoa makes chocolate?
• New Desert Locust Bulletin
• Intergovernmental meeting on fibres  

November 1998

• FAO Council meets in Rome
• FAO plans aid to flood-stricken Sudan
• Members of the world's parliaments meet in Rome
• Meetings on meat and hides and skins
• New Desert Locust Bulletin
• President of Iceland visits FAO
• Draft sustainable fishery documents agreed
• International workshop on seed security
• Email conference on globalization of fish trade
• Women need better tools