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Agriculture
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 | Mauritius to tackle illegal fishing | | Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Fisheries Minister Joseph Von-Mally, Th
ursday launched a national action plan for the prevention of unregulated fishing
at the Albion Fisheries Research Centre, near the capital, Port-Louis, PANA repo
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ted from here.
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| FAO moves to save upcoming Pakistani wheat planting season | | Nairobi , Kenya (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Wednesday called for more international funds to save the upcoming wheat plantin
g season in Pakistan, where floods covering land half the size of Italy have wip
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d out much of the country's household wheat seed stocks.
01/09/2010 full text... |
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| Surging wheat costs hike int'l food prices | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Surging wheat prices drove international food prices up
by 5 per cent last month in the biggest month-on-month increase since November,
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009, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced, Wednesday.
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| Ghana to host first African Green Revolution forum | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President John Atta Mills of Ghana is set to play host t
o other African Heads of state, former presidents, development partners, agricul
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ure experts, farmers and international donor agencies when the maiden African Gr
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en Revolution Forum (AGRF) takes place from 2 to 4 September, according to a sta
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ement from the New Partnership For Africaâ?s Development (NEPAD), made available
to PANA here.
29/08/2010 full text... |
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| EU Food Facility doles 4.5m euros to Liberia's agric. dev. | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The European Union Food Facility (EUFF) is channeling
4.5 million euros, through the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), to
Liberia as part of its two-year, 1 billion euro effort to help developing
countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America move towards long-term food
security, FAO sources told PANA here Thursday.
26/08/2010 full text... |
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| Brazilian President blows whistle on hunger | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has joined
a global anti-hunger campaign organized
by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), signing his name to FAO's ''1bil
lionhungry'' international petition and blowing the
campaign's yellow ''whistle against hunger''.
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| ECOWAS urged to improve livestock farming | | Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The study committee of the Economic Community of West Af
rican States (ECOWAS) on livestock farming has pleaded for the improvement of th
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sector's performances during the session held in the Beninese capital, Cotonou.
15/08/2010 full text... |
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| Gambia's livestock agency says meat shortage over | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Demba Jallow, the Director General of Gambia Livestock M
arketing Agency, on Friday said the acute meat shortage that hit the tiny West A
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rican nation was coming to an end with the combined efforts of his agency and cr
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dit facilities from a private bank, PANA reported from here.
14/08/2010 full text... |
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| FAO launches NASA developed fire monitoring system | | Nairobi, kenya (PANA) - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FA
O) has launched a new online portal on fire information and real time monitoring
to help countries to control fire effectively and protect property and natural r
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sources.
12/08/2010 full text... |
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| FAO, WFP express concern over food situation in Zimbabwe | | New York, US (PANA) - The report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday said an estimated 1.68 millio
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Zimbabweans still required agricultural assistance and food aid, despite an imp
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ovement in the countryâ?s food production.
11/08/2010 full text... |
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| WFP feeds children in drought-hit Niger | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) said Wednesday it had begun a major round of feeding in Niger for 670,000 young children and their families as part of an emergency operation to reach as many as 8 million food-insecure people in the drought-stricken West African country.
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| Zimbabwe food security improves, but...– UN | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Food security in Zimbabwe improved significantly following government efforts and international assistance, but the country still needs agricultural and food assistance next year for some 1.68 million people, a report released Tuesday by the United
Nations food agencies said.
10/08/2010 full text... |
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| Zimbabwe lifts Botswana, SA meat ban | | Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe said Friday it was lifting a ban it had impos
ed on beef, poultry and other meat products from Botswana and
South Africa, after the outbreak of livestock diseases in the two countries earl
ier this year.
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| FAO cuts wheat production forecast | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The impact of unfavourable weather on crops in recent we
eks has led the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to cut its global wheat
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roduction forecast for 2010 to 651 million tonnes, from 676 million tonnes repor
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ed in June.
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| USADF announces food security programme for Kenya's arid region | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The United States African Development Foundatio
n (USADF) on Wednesday announced its intention to provide funding for a five-yea
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food security and economic development programme to aid the arid Turkana region
of northern Kenya, which has both high unemployment and food insecurity but few
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ustainable job opportunities.
04/08/2010 full text... |
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| Anti-hunger signatories surpass 250,000 mark | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - More than 250,000 people have signed an FAO petition on
the 1billionhungry.org website, calling on governments to make the elimination o
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hunger their top priority as the eye-catching campaign spreads across the globe
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03/08/2010 full text... |
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| Three Rwandans bag CGIAR scholarships | | Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Three female Rwandan researchers have been granted schol
arships by the
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), for their wor
k in the
agricultural sector in favour of rural populations struck by poverty, PANA learn
t Monday from official sources
in Kigali.
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| EU grants 15 million euros as food assistance to Zimbabwe | | Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - In a report released to the press in Brussels, the Belgian capital, the European Union Commission said it had made available 15 million Euros to Zimbabwe "to support the re-establishment of essential health and water supply services and to provide short-term food assistance and a wide range of livelihood support in Zimbabwe".
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| Zimbabwe revises up tobacco output | | Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Authorities in Zimbabwe Tuesday revised the country's
tobacco output this year to 114 million kilogrammes,
up from 77 million kilogrammes earlier forecast.
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| Jatropha, bioenergy crop, to benefit poor farmers globally | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Using the energy crop, jatropha, for biodiesel productio
n could benefit poor farmers, particularly in the semi-arid and remote areas of
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eveloping countries, according to a report published by the FAO and the Internat
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onal Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on Thursday
But the report stresses that jatropha is still essentially a wild plant needing
crop improvement. Expecting jatropha to substitute significantly for oil imports
in developing countries is unrealistic, said the UN food and agriculture agency.
22/07/2010 full text... |
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| Spanish Red Cross invests 3m euros in Angola food security | | Kuito, Angola (PANA) - About three million euros will be donated in four years (
2010-2014) by the Spanish Red Cross (CVE) for food security and nutritional prog
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ammes being implemented in the districts of Cunhinga, Camacupa and Kuito, Bié p
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ovinces of Angola, PANA reported from here Wednesday, quoting the African countr
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's news agency, ANGOP.
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| Africaâ?s agriculture records 5% growth rate despite challenges | | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Despite the various challenges confronting th
e agricultural sector in Africa, most countries in the continent have recorded a
five per cent agriculture growth rate in the last 10 years, according to the Exe
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utive Secretary of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Monty J
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nes.
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| Rapid losses of native livestock threaten Africa's food supply | | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Urgent action is needed to stop the
rapid and alarming loss of genetic diversity of African livestock that
provide food and in come to 70 per cent of rural Africans, according to
an analysis presented Tuesday at a gathering of African scientists and
development experts here.
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| FAO mobilizes CFA F 182m for Mali's agro-pastoral region | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali and FAO have signed an agreement to the tune of
about CFAF 182 million for emergency assistance for the reintegration of
people affected by the crisis in the agro-pastoral region of Kidal in the far
northern Mali, PANA learnt here Friday from the country's Department of
Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
16/07/2010 full text... |
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| Malawi, Zambia, Uganda to benefit from EU facility programme | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Three African countries, Malawi, Zambia and Uganda are t
o benefit from a two-year European Union food facility programme being implement
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d by the Alliance for Commodity Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa (ACTESA), a
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cording to the latest edition of ACTESA newsletter, made available to PANA here.
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| FAO boss visits Gambia | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) â" Senegalese-born Director-General of the United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Dr. Jacques Diouf is in The Gambia on
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working visit as guest of the Gambian government, official sources in Banjul co
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firmed to PANA.
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| International experts peg melamine levels in food | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The maximum amount of melamine allowed in powdered infan
t formula is 1 mg/kg and the amount of the chemical allowed in other foods and a
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imal feed is 2.5 mg/kg, according to new rulings from the United Nations' food s
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andards body, Codex Alimentarius Commission.
06/07/2010 full text... |
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| Nigeria commends IITA over strides in cassava production | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The International Institute of Tropical
Agriculture (IITA), based in Ibadan, south west Nigeria, has been
commended by the Nigerian government for its contribution towards cassava
enterprise development, as the country intensifies the campaign to
diversify its economy.
03/07/2010 full text... |
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| FAO, EU bolster support to drought-ridden Sahel | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Amid a growing food crisis in the Sahel that is
putting millions at risk of hunger, FAO has started providing quality
seeds to 100,000 vulnerable farmers in Burkina Faso, as part of an 18
million euros operation funded by the European Union (EU).
25/06/2010 full text... |
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Famine hits Africa
