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afrol News, 23 November - A study commissioned by Barclays says Africa’s weak economies have lost up to 15 percent of its Gross Domestic Product to climate change, warning that they could be swamped by uncertainties if the effects of climate change are not averted.

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Developing countries urged to make agriculture a funding priority

afrol News, 19 November - On the final day of the World Summit on Food Security, the head of the UN’s rural poverty agency said he was pleased to see how developing countries are increasingly deepening their commitments to food security through investment in agriculture.

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Concluding Doha Round could boost recovery, WB

afrol News, 19 November - Countries can contribute to a more robust recovery from the global recession by rapidly concluding the Doha Development Round (DDA), which could bring up to US$160 billion in gains, according to new World Bank research.

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Spain doubles aid for Horn of Africa

afrol News, 19 November - The World Food Programme (WFP) has today received a boost for its emergency relief efforts feeding millions of hungry people in the Horn of Africa, with the announcement of a $112 million donation from Spain.

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FAO chief regrets no measurable targets adopted to fight hunger

afrol News, 19 November - The three-day United Nations summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome yesterday with its host lamenting that it produced neither measurable targets nor specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet.

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» 12.11.2009 - FAO calls for worldwide day-long hunger strike
» 10.11.2009 - China-Africa commitments applauded
» 03.11.2009 - Ghana fit to double cocoa production
» 28.10.2009 - Tanzanian farmers receive FAO's boost
» 28.10.2009 - Tunis forum makes recommendations on protecting African remittances
» 27.10.2009 - FAO commences work on international land-tenure governance guidelines
» 23.10.2009 - $480 million to help in Ethiopia's food security
» 23.10.2009 - Africa told to enhance actions to reduce disaster risk
» 15.10.2009 - Zambia becomes agric support hub for Southern Africa
» 15.10.2009 - Gates challenges global leaders to support world's poorest farmers
» 15.10.2009 - World leaders must change debate on poverty and human rights, AI
» 12.10.2009 - World faces huge challenge to feed growing populations
» 08.10.2009 - More agric investments needed to feed worlds hungry, UN
» 05.10.2009 - Food security crucial for Africa's development, AWEPA
» 01.10.2009 - Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana youth to benefit from Cocoa development grant
» 30.09.2009 - Climate change could induce more food dependency on Africa, FAO paper
» 28.09.2009 - FAO urges policy improvement to turn around Africa's fortunes
» 14.09.2009 - Eastern Africa to harmonise strategies to reach food security
» 14.09.2009 - New pan-African rice centre adopted
» 01.09.2009 - AU Commission signs compact agreement with Ethiopia
» 31.08.2009 - Boosting smallholder farming key to easing hunger in SADC
» 28.08.2009 - Senegal gets land management grant from WB
» 21.08.2009 - IFAD head concludes visit to Abidjan
» 20.08.2009 - Kenya launches poverty drive projects
» 12.08.2009 - $1.5 million life-saving support needed in CAR
» 06.08.2009 - British funding to secure land peace in Rwanda
» 10.07.2009 - Helping world’s hungry to promote peace and stability
» 26.06.2009 - Sudan ready for biofuels
» 12.06.2009 - Egypt has enough wheat reserves, govt
» 29.05.2009 - MCC commemorates Africa Day
» 22.05.2009 - "Agriculture answer to crisis in Africa"
» 19.05.2009 - EU awards €54 million to Horn of Africa
» 15.05.2009 - EU grants €106 million to boost agriculture in developing countries
» 14.05.2009 - UN report urges for reforms to avert food crisis in Africa
» 13.05.2009 - UN chief calls for support of small farmers
» 13.05.2009 - Egypt continues slaughtering pigs despite protests
» 05.05.2009 - Green revolution must empower farmers, Migiro asserts
» 17.04.2009 - Gambian poor hit by soaring prices
» 06.04.2009 - UN calls new politics of food on the agenda
» 26.03.2009 - Govt tramples over coffee producers' trade reserves
» 20.03.2009 - Help farmers grow more food with less water, Diouf
» 19.03.2009 - Melez threaten to seize coffee stocks
» 18.03.2009 - Standard Bank signs $100 million funding deal for small farmers
» 16.02.2009 - WFP launches first food voucher programme in Africa
» 27.01.2009 - Kenya scrapes maize import duties
» 09.01.2009 - Kenya under famine threat
» 05.12.2008 - Kibaki warns against over pricing of basic commodities
» 20.10.2008 - Côte d'Ivoire cocoa investigation targets big fish
» 08.10.2008 - WCF awards grants to Institutions in Cocoa-producing countries
» 10.09.2008 - DR Congo frees goats from prison
» 02.09.2008 - Zim NGOs face a setback in aid distribution
» 05.08.2008 - Social safety nets needed to support Africa's poor
» 27.06.2008 - Africa's green revolution needs sound policies
» 26.06.2008 - SADC battling with illegal fisheries
» 23.06.2008 - Mauritania seeks to avoid global hikes' shocks
» 19.06.2008 - Africa's agric produce compromised
» 13.06.2008 - East African budgets to ease food crisis
» 04.06.2008 - Zimbabwean police detains Tsvangirai
» 03.06.2008 - Madagascar President seeks Green Revolution
» 21.05.2008 - Ecowas Bank offers $1 billion to contain regional food crisis
» 28.04.2008 - India exports rice to Senegal
» 14.03.2008 - Zim police chief fires threats
» 12.03.2008 - Gambia's agric minister fired
» 20.02.2008 - African NGOs call for moratorium on biofuels
» 05.09.2007 - ZANU-PF chefs’ kids deported
» 13.02.2007 - South Africa's land reform starts with expropriations
» 22.12.2006 - Burkina Faso cotton farmers drowned by US subsidies
» 16.11.2006 - White farmers snub Zimbabwe compensation
» 03.11.2006 - Ethiopia coffee brews up to conflict
» 25.10.2006 - Gambia peanut growers get paid, one year late
» 11.09.2006 - Guinea-Bissau unable to sell cashew harvest
» 15.05.2006 - Angola "re-launches" coffee production
» 20.02.2006 - Loan to boost agricultural development in Benin
» 08.02.2006 - Kenyans flock to donate for famine relief
» 07.02.2006 - Malawi's subsidised fertilizer smuggled and embezzled
» 03.02.2006 - "Dog food" offer for hungry children insults Kenya
» 03.02.2006 - Swazi marijuana "hope for South Africa's homeless"
» 29.11.2005 - West Africa slams US, EU on cotton subsidies
» 07.11.2005 - Tiny tobacco crop spells doom in Zimbabwe
» 12.07.2005 - African business, agriculture disappointed with G8
» 30.05.2005 - Cameroon's provinces to fight food insecurity
» 11.05.2005 - NEPAD's agricultural programme's action plans set in motion
» 14.03.2005 - Agricultural development forwarded in West Africa
» 08.03.2005 - Malawi's tobacco tenants "suffer horrible abuses"
» 16.02.2005 - Southern Africa ready to implement "Green revolution"
» 11.02.2005 - Nomadic pastoralists meet in Addis Ababa
» 28.01.2005 - Finally, a bumper harvest in Ethiopia
» 08.12.2004 - Scandals shock South Africa's wine industry
» 19.11.2004 - West Africa wins first battle in cotton trade war
» 15.11.2004 - Angolan govt kicks off agricultural season
» 20.10.2004 - Morocco to sell farmlands to foreign bidders
» 20.10.2004 - "Nigeria to export rice by 2007"
» 07.10.2004 - Zimbabwe food insecurity deeper than expected
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