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Agriculture
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 | 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
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ca, WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said on Thursday after the Spanish go
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ernment announced a fresh donation of 75 million euros (US$ 112 million).
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| 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
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(WFP) in Kinshasa, Abdou Dieng, on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understandi
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g, worth 1.5 million euros, in a bid to strengthen the UN agency's efforts in pr
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viding food to victims of armed conflicts in the country.
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| 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.
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| 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
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s violations.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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ited Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
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| 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
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ve announced a US$1 billion agreement to fund agricultural development in poor c
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untries that belong to both organizations, the FAO said on Sunday.
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| 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
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ouf began a 24-hour hunger strike to call for action to end the scourge of hunge
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and in solidarity with the one billion humans who suffer chronic malnutrition.
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| 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
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important in the realisation of these objectives, said the Director-General of
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he Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Jacques Diouf, at an international p
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ivate-sector forum on food security.
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| 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
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de hunger strike against chronic hunger.
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| 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
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s intervene now to salvage it, international agencies ActionAid and Oxfam said T
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ursday.
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| 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
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organisation disclosed in a statement made available to PANA here.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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frican governments to increase investment in agriculture with concrete programme
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in seeds, soil health, policy and markets in order to boost productivity of sma
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lholder farmers across the continent.
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| 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
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y the government and development partners to transfer cash to the vulnerable poo
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, the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement on Wednesday.
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| 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.
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| 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
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s on governance of tenure to land and other natural resources such as water supp
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ies, fisheries and forests.
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| 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
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n Bujumbura made available to PANA on Monday.
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| 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
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hieve access to adequate food.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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ramme (WFP) to some 330,000 people in Kenya, said a statement issued in Brussels
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the capital, Friday.
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| 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.
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| 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
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when they gather in Rome, the Italian capital, for the World Summit on Food Sec
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rity of Heads of State and Government on 16-18 November.
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| 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
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amount of the Public Aid to Development (PAD) for agriculture to its former 17
p
er cent level.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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ion for agricultural purposes in Africa, saying this had made agriculture vulner
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ble to the vagaries of the climate.
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| 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
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smallholder farmers in West Africa by increasing their access to improved, loca
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ly-adapted varieties of major food crops, according to a press statement from th
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coalition here.
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| 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
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s to help small-holder farmers, a press statement from AGRA said here.
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Famine hits Africa
