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<title><![CDATA[Study identifies economic opportunities in horticulture exports from developing countries]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The export of high-value horticulture from developing countries into developed economies is a significant opportunity for economic development, but wages in the sector are insufficient to enable a decent standard of living for workers and their dependants, according to a new joint study by Oxfam and International Procurement and Logistics (IPL).<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:26:04 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[FAO, Slow Food partner to bolster food production]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nairobi,Kenya (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the international Slow Food organization agreed Wednesday to develop joint actions to improve the livelihoods of smallholders and others working in rural areas.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 12:12:06 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Forests, insects critical in fight against hunger - FAO]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rome, Italy (PANA) - Forests, trees on farms and agroforestry are critical in the fight against hunger and should be better integrated into food security and land use policies, Director-General of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), Mr. José Graziano da Silva, said Monday.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 21:01:47 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[President Kikwete to inaugurate IITA’s Science complex in Dar es Salaam]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete will on Monday inaugurate the  International Institute for Tropical Agriculture(IITA) science laboratory building in Dar es Salaam, aimed at boosting food security on the continent, a statement from the research Institute said.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 11:50:27 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[FAO says food prices rise for second month]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[New York, US (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said global food prices rose for a second straight month, while global production of coarse grains could set a new record this year with strong growth also projected for global wheat and rice production.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:57:26 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[AGRA wants world leaders to see agriculture as key to Africa’s growth]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Thursday called on global leaders at the World Economic Forum on Africa to recognise agriculture’s rightful place at the heart of Africa’s growth.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:52:46 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[FAO says farming is improving in Africa but productivity still low]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – African agriculture has achieved significant progress over the last decade and reduced the alarming pace of increases in rural poverty, thanks to the implementation of the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP), a senior official of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said here Tuesday.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 10:58:39 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Ethiopian minister urges collective action to eliminate hunger in Africa]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African countries need urgent collective action to end hunger and ensure better livelihoods for their people, Ethiopia’s State Minister in the Agriculture Ministry Wondirad Mandefro said here Tuesday.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:46:14 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Nigeria wants greater partnership with Brazilian investors]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina has canvassed a greater partnership with Brazilian investors in order to boost agriculture potentials in the African nation.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:12:30 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[African govts urged to give priority to small-scale farmers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The FAO representative in Senegal, José Luis Fernandez, on Monday urged African governments to give priority to small-scale farmers and producers in the market.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:06:15 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[War undermines agric investment in Mali]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Paris, France (PANA) - Billions of dollars in foreign investment in agriculture are now compromised in Mali because of the ongoing battle by Malian and international forces against armed jihadi groups, according to an estimate obtained by PANA in Paris Tuesday.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:14:57 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[PACA workshop on aflatoxins ends in Tanzania]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The first Partnership for Aflatoxins Control in Africa (PACA) Strategy Development Stakeholder Consultation Workshop has ended here, with a call on participants to utilise knowledge acquired to address the problem of aflatoxins in their countries.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:41:37 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[African countries urged to allocate more resources into aflatoxin research]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Vice-Chancellor of the Njala University in Sierra Leone, Prof. Felixtina Ellis, has called for increased funding of research to control aflatoxins, which pose great damage to food and health.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:07:26 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA['Dairy nudges FAO Food Price Index higher by 1%']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rome, Italy (PANA) - The Food Price Index (FPI) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) crept higher by 1% in March compared to the figure a month ealier, driven mainly by an 11% increase in dairy, according to a press statement, issued here Thursday, by the Media Office at the FAO.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:49:40 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Africa to step up institutional framework against aflatoxin]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dar Es-Salaam,Tanzania (PANA) - Participants at the ongoing consultation workshop on Partnership for Aflatoxin control in Africa have called for the scaling up of activities aimed at controlling the damage caused by aflatoxin to trade, health and food safety.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:24:24 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Tanzania to host PACA workshop on aflatoxin]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Tanzania is to play host to the Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA) during the first Strategy Development-Stakeholder Consultation Workshop to be held in Dar-Es Salaam, the capital, from 10-12 April, according to organizers.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Private sector investments in agric in Nigeria hit US$8b ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina has attributed the private sector investments in agriculture, which has hit US$8 billion, to the ongoing transformation in the sector.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:35:08 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Post harvest losses, challenge to achieving food security in Africa, by Semiu Babalola, PANA Correspondent]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Post harvest losses (PHL) recorded at the various levels of the agriculture value chain is frustrating efforts at achieving high growth rates, food security, reduction of poverty and creation of wealth in Africa, according to stakeholders in the sector.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:23:34 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[FAO chief calls for sustained fight against hunger]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Political will from national leadership and action are crucial and governments have the primary responsibility for assuring the food security of their citizens, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva said Thursday in Madrid, Spain.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:50:23 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Indian Ocean Commission launches platform in Madagascar ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ebène, Mauritius (PANA) - The Indian Ocean commission (IOC) has launched a platform, ''Women, sustainable development and food security (FDDSA),'' in Mahajanga, Madagascar, official sources told PANA on Saturday at the IOC headquarters.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:06:20 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Insecticide-treated mosquito nets protect livestock in Kenya]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A simple but innovative use of insecticide-impregnated nets to protect livestock is doubling milk output in Kisii, Kenya, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a statement Wednesday.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:24:49 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[CAADP partnership platform meeting ends in Ethiopia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Addis, Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The 9th Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Partnership Platform Meeting ended here Wednesday with member countries tasked to put into practice the lessons learnt, in order to improve nutrition and agricultural production, create jobs and reduce poverty on the continent.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:19:32 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Effective leadership central to CAADP implementation - Participants]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Participants in the ongoing CAADP partnership meeting have underscored the need for an effective and strong leadership at all levels of governance to translate various policies formulated to fight hunger into action in the agricultural sector across Africa.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:01:29 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA['African ministers must nurture agricultural potential to create jobs']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The African Union (AU) said Tuesday Africa remained the most attractive destination for foreign investments in agriculture, which would further boost continental agricultural growth.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:29:20 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Madagascar needs over US$41m to end locust plague]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rome, Italy (PANA) - Madagascar needs more than US$22 million of emergency funding by June to start fighting a severe locust plague that threatens the country's next cropping seasons and the food security of more than half the country's population, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:18:12 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA['Africa needs to make agriculture attractive to youth']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African countries have been told to invest more in Youth development and put in place incentives that will encourage them to take to farming as way of solving the unemployment problems, reduced poverty and create wealth, according to the NEPAD Director of Programmes, Estherine Fotabong.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:03:19 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[CAADP partnership platform meeting underway in Ethiopia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The ninth edition of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) partnership platform meeting opened here Monday with a call on stakeholders to sustain and improve on the achievements recorded in the last decade of the programme.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:22:36 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[NEPAD-CAADP journalists' network launched ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)-Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Journalists Network, aimed at strengthening the coverage of agriculture-led development in the African media, was launched on Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:43:44 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[20 African countries to benefit from AfDB-funded US$63.24m initiative (Correcting slug)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 20 African countries will benefit from the African Development Bank's (AfDB's) US$63.24 million-fund initiative known as the Support for Agricultural Research for Development of Strategic Crops (SARD-SC), one of the three implementers of the project in Africa, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), said in a statement obtained by PANA here Sunday.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:47:31 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Pope Francis I can help fight hunger, poverty, says FAO]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva, attending the inaugural Mass for Pope Francis I at the Vatican on Tuesday, said the United Nations would look up to the Catholic Pontiff as a “friend of the poor” to support the fight against hunger, malnutrition and extreme poverty.<a href="http://www.panapress.com/pana-2-lang2-AGC-index.html">Agriculture</a>]]>
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