November 21, 2009
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Agriculture Last Updated     19/11/2009    15:25:00
Spain moves to ease hunger in Horn of Africa
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Spain has taken the lead on World Food Programmeâ?s (WF P) appeal for funds to tackle the persisting crisis of hunger in the Horn of Afr i ca, WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said on Thursday after the Spanish go v ernment announced a fresh donation of 75 million euros (US$ 112 million).    19/11/2009   full text...
France grants WFP 1.5 mln euros for food aid in DRC
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The French ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Pierre Jacquemot, and the representative of the World Food Programm e (WFP) in Kinshasa, Abdou Dieng, on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understandi n g, worth 1.5 million euros, in a bid to strengthen the UN agency's efforts in pr o viding food to victims of armed conflicts in the country.    19/11/2009   full text...
FAO Summit boosts agriculture to end hunger
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The three-day World Summit on Food Security ended in Rome late Wednesday after committing the international community to investing more in agriculture and to eradicating hunger at the earliest date.    19/11/2009   full text...
Mugabe blames West for failing agriculture in Zim
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Wednesday blamed fa iling agriculture in his country on heavy subsidies for farmers in the West, and sanctions that world big powers had imposed on his regime for alleged human righ t s violations.    18/11/2009   full text...
World leaders renew commitment to end hunger
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - World leaders who convened in Rome, Italy, Monday for th e World Summit on Food Security have unanimously adopted a declaration pledging renewed commitm ent to eradicate hunger at the earliest date, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO ).    17/11/2009   full text...
Italian proposes increase in Africa seed production
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan revolutionary leader Mouammar Kadhafi, the AU current chairman, on Sunday received in Rome the Italian writer and thinker, Mario Cabana, who is also the president of the Association of genetic rights in Italy.    16/11/2009   full text...
Ban calls for global climate deal to guarantee food security
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for a gl obal deal on climate change to ensure sustainable food security.    16/11/2009   full text...
Brazilian varsity to help in FAO programmes
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Scientists from a leading Brazilian university will prov ide their expertise to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for its agricultural development programmes in Latin America and African countries, under an agreement signed in Rome Monday, the UN agency said.    16/11/2009   full text...
Kadhafi in Rome for food security summit
Rome, Italy (PANA) - Libyan revolutionary leader Mouammar Kadhafi, the current c hairman of the African Union (AU), arrived in Rome on Sunday to take part in the world summit on food security which opens on Monday at the headquarters of the U n ited Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).    15/11/2009   full text...
FAO and IDB in US$1 billion agreement
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - On the eve of the World Summit on Food Security, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) h a ve announced a US$1 billion agreement to fund agricultural development in poor c o untries that belong to both organizations, the FAO said on Sunday.    15/11/2009   full text...
Nkurunziza in Rome for World Food Security Summit
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) â" Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza left for Rom e on Saturday to attend the World Food Security Summit being organised by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).    15/11/2009   full text...
FAO head on 24-hour hunger strike
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Hours before the opening of the World Summit on Food Sec urity, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Jacques D i ouf began a 24-hour hunger strike to call for action to end the scourge of hunge r and in solidarity with the one billion humans who suffer chronic malnutrition.    15/11/2009   full text...
UN chief fast to show solidaity with people in hunger
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will on Sunday fast to sh ow solidarity with the one billion people worldwide, who live in chronic hunger, a UN spokesperson said.    14/11/2009   full text...
Business leaders urged to help find solutions to hunger
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - With privatization, globalization and the transformation of the food chain from the farm to the table, the private sector has become ver y important in the realisation of these objectives, said the Director-General of t he Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Jacques Diouf, at an international p r ivate-sector forum on food security.    13/11/2009   full text...
FAO calls for world strike against hunger
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - On the eve of next weekâ?s World Summit on Food Securit y, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has called for a day-long, worldw i de hunger strike against chronic hunger.    12/11/2009   full text...
World leaders urged to salvage UN World Food summit
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Summit in Rome, Italy, sch eduled for 16-18 November, could be a waste of time and money unless world leade r s intervene now to salvage it, international agencies ActionAid and Oxfam said T h ursday.    12/11/2009   full text...
Nigeria hosts 2-day int'l confab on agric policy in W/Africa
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - An International Conference on Financing Regional Agricu ltural Policy in West Africa (ECOWAP/CAADP) will be held from Wednesday at the T r anscorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria's capital city.    10/11/2009   full text...
Fishery workshop involving EU, W/Africa opens in Nouakchott
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - A sub-regional workshop on fishery involving Wes t African countries and the European Union (EU), with a view to "improving gover n ance in partnerships", started Tuesday in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, P A NA reported.    10/11/2009   full text...
Food prices stubbornly high in poor countries, says FAO
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Food prices in poor countries that are net importers of food still remain stubbornly high, despite a good 2009 world cereal production, F AO warned Tuesday in its latest Crop Prospects and Food Situation report.    10/11/2009   full text...
IITA to establish global research park in Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IIT A), in Ibadan, south west Nigeria, has unveiled a strategy to boost agricultural research in Africa with plans to establish a Global Research Park in Nigeria, th e organisation disclosed in a statement made available to PANA here.    09/11/2009   full text...
EU, FAO boost small farmersâ? food production in Pakistan
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Just in time for the upcoming planting season, the Europ ean Union (EU) has put in motion a major effort to turn the tide of rising hunge r in Pakistan.    09/11/2009   full text...
Zimbabwe govt floats grain bills
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Zimbabwe government Monday floated grain bills, th e first in a series, to raise funds to purchase more maize - the country's staple food.    09/11/2009   full text...
AGRA, NEPAD form partnership to raise food production in Africa
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Monday announced a 'groundbreaking partnership' that will link African government commi tments to agricultural development with concrete programmes in seeds, soil health, policy and markets, the alliance said in a statement made available to PANA here.    09/11/2009   full text...
AGRA, NEPAD partner to boost investment in agriculture
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Africaâ?s two leading farmer-focused initiatives will M onday announce a timely and important new partnership that will link pledges by A frican governments to increase investment in agriculture with concrete programme s in seeds, soil health, policy and markets in order to boost productivity of sma l lholder farmers across the continent.    06/11/2009   full text...
FAO, IFAD, WFP renew effort to fight hunger
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Rome-based UN agencies Thursday resolved to work togethe r to revamp the fight against hunger, PANA reported from here.    05/11/2009   full text...
Kenya to launch pilot food subsidy project for urban poor
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - One hundred thousand poor people in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, will benefit from a Kshs. 600 million pilot programme to be undertaken b y the government and development partners to transfer cash to the vulnerable poo r , the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement on Wednesday.    04/11/2009   full text...
Post-harvest losses aggravate hunger, says FAO
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Significant amounts of the food produced in developing c ountries is lost after harvest, thereby aggravating hunger, the Food and Agricul t ure Organisation (FAO) said Monday.    02/11/2009   full text...
Kenya's tea production drops to lowest figure in five years
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's overall tea production for January to Septembe r 2009, dipped by 12 per cent to stand at 209.4 million kilogrammes, compared to the 238.1 million kgs the country recorded during the same period in 2008.    30/10/2009   full text...
FAO moves to boost food production in Tanzania
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is to pr ovide Tanzania with advisory support for farmers that will help them better respond to market opportunities and thus heighten food security, the agency said Wednesday.    28/10/2009   full text...
FAO targets land tenure
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FA O) has begun widespread consultations over the first-ever international guidelin e s on governance of tenure to land and other natural resources such as water supp l ies, fisheries and forests.    27/10/2009   full text...
Germany donates 1 million euros for food in Burundi
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Germany has granted one additional million euros to enable the World Food Programme (WFP) to better fight against food insecurity in Burundi, according to a press release from the German diplomatic representation i n Bujumbura made available to PANA on Monday.    26/10/2009   full text...
Locust infestation looms in Mauritania
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Ground control operations are in progress against an inf estation of desert locusts in Mauritania, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) warned Monday.    26/10/2009   full text...
FAO launches `toolbox' on food access
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Friday laun ched a guide to help the billion people around the world suffering from hunger a c hieve access to adequate food.    24/10/2009   full text...
Ethiopians in need of food aids rise by 1 million
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The number of Ethiopians needing emergency food a id has climbed by over one million from last yearâ?s figure, the government anno unced Thursday.    22/10/2009   full text...
Swiss food firm in stand-off with Mugabe over milk
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - A Swiss food company, Nestle, is embroiled in a row wi th supporters of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, after it abruptly terminated a milk supply contract with the veteran leader over his seizure of a farm from a white farmer under the country's controversial land reforms.    22/10/2009   full text...
IITA denies plan to leave Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - For the umpteenth time, the International Institute of T ropical Agriculture (IITA) has denied any plans to relocate from Nigeria.    21/10/2009   full text...
CORAF Director defines agricultural research priorities
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Executive Director of the West and Central African C entre for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF), Paco Sereme, on Tuesday said in Dakar that researchers must anticipate the effect of climate change on A f rica.    20/10/2009   full text...
Diouf calls for rapid elimination of hunger
New York, US (PANA) - Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), has called on world leaders to reach a "broad consensus on the total and rapid elimination of hunger" when they gather in Rome for the World Summit on Food Security scheduled 16-18 November.    17/10/2009   full text...
Belgium grants emergency food aid to Kenya, Ethiopia
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Belgium announced that it had released 500,000 euros for the purchase of 1,200 tonnes of food to be distributed by the World Food Pro g ramme (WFP) to some 330,000 people in Kenya, said a statement issued in Brussels , the capital, Friday.    16/10/2009   full text...
Spain boosts Kenya's food security
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - As the world marked the World Food Day on Friday, the Sp anish government announced that it had set aside Sh96.3 million to support World Food Programmeâ?s (WFP) efforts to deal with the drought situation in the countr y.    16/10/2009   full text...
FAO chief calls for rapid eradication of hunger
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf Friday called on worl d leaders to reach a broad consensus on the total and rapid elimination of hunge r when they gather in Rome, the Italian capital, for the World Summit on Food Sec u rity of Heads of State and Government on 16-18 November.    16/10/2009   full text...
FAO D-G seeks increase in PAD for agriculture
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agricul ture Organisation (FAO), Jacques Diouf, on Thursday pleaded for the return of th e amount of the Public Aid to Development (PAD) for agriculture to its former 17 p er cent level.    15/10/2009   full text...
Ghana increases producer price of cocoa
Accra, Ghana (PANA) â" The Ghana government on Wednesday increased the producer price of cocoa by 35 per cent to 2,208 cedis (about US$1,472) per ton with imme d iate effect.    14/10/2009   full text...
African states worst hit by extreme hunger - report
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - African states featured prominently among a list of states where hunger and starvation have increased alarmingly over the past 20 years, with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) listed as the worst-hit by hunger, according to a report released here Wednesday.    14/10/2009   full text...
One billion people undernourished worldwide â" FAO
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) â" The United Nations Agency for Food and Agriculture Org anisation (FAO) Wednesday said the â?combination of food and economic crisesâ? has pushed the number of hungry people worldwide â?to historic levelsâ? with mo re than one billion people undernourished.    14/10/2009   full text...
FAO D-G deplores low use of irrigation in African agriculture
Rome, Italy (PANA) - The Director General of the United Nations Food and Agricul ture Organisation (FAO), Jacques Diouf, on Monday deplored the low use of irriga t ion for agricultural purposes in Africa, saying this had made agriculture vulner a ble to the vagaries of the climate.    12/10/2009   full text...
Organisations move to improve high-yielding seed varieties in W/Africa
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A broad coalition of public and private sector organizatio ns Monday announced a new partnership aimed at raising the yields and incomes fo r smallholder farmers in West Africa by increasing their access to improved, loca l ly-adapted varieties of major food crops, according to a press statement from th e coalition here.    05/10/2009   full text...
AGRA, AWEPA to support African small-holder farmers
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa ( AGRA) and the Association of European Parliamentarians for Africa (AWEPA) Friday announced a new partnership to support African parliamentarians promoting polici e s to help small-holder farmers, a press statement from AGRA said here.    02/10/2009   full text...
Bamako hosts meeting on African seed system
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A four-day meeting on the African seed programme will be h eld Monday in Bamako, the Malian capital, an official source told PANA here on F r iday.    02/10/2009   full text...
FAO supports rice farming and market gardening in Chad
N'Djaména, Chad (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is support ing a programme in Chad to help bring down food prices, the UN food agency's pro g ramme officer in Chad, Batedjim Noudjalbaye, said on Thursday.    01/10/2009   full text...
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