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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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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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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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afrol News, 16 November - The United Nations efforts to strengthen agriculture and enhance food security received a boost, ahead of a major summit beginning today, thanks to new initiatives with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and a leading Brazilian university.

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» 11.11.2009 - Africa’s poor to suffer due high food prices
» 10.11.2009 - Mauritanian grassroots groups receive US funding
» 09.11.2009 - AGRA and NEPAD partner to increase food security in Africa
» 09.11.2009 - Nigeria to get agro-research park
» 04.11.2009 - GM potato gets roasting in South Africa
» 03.11.2009 - Maize research splendid investment for Africa
» 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 - Kenya leads Africa rural connect in third round
» 23.10.2009 - $480 million to help in Ethiopia's food security
» 19.10.2009 - Cocoa livelihoods programme launched in Ghana
» 15.10.2009 - Zambia becomes agric support hub for Southern Africa
» 15.10.2009 - Gates challenges global leaders to support world's poorest farmers
» 13.10.2009 - Australia helps Zim farmers through World Bank
» 12.10.2009 - World faces huge challenge to feed growing populations
» 12.10.2009 - New multi-media tools to help resolve land rights issues in Africa
» 08.10.2009 - More agric investments needed to feed worlds hungry, UN
» 08.10.2009 - Malawi milk producers receive boost from Netherlands
» 07.10.2009 - USAID awards $387,000 for indigenous health in Ethiopia
» 05.10.2009 - Mauritania gets $12 million to boost food production and lower imports
» 01.10.2009 - Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana youth to benefit from Cocoa development grant
» 01.10.2009 - Benin's livestock farmers sign support grants with USADF
» 30.09.2009 - IFAD signs additional funding to fight poverty in Kenya
» 30.09.2009 - Climate change could induce more food dependency on Africa, FAO paper
» 29.09.2009 - Zimbabwean communities educated about owls
» 28.09.2009 - FAO urges policy improvement to turn around Africa's fortunes
» 24.09.2009 - $1.2 billion trade finance to support Ghana's cocoa sector
» 24.09.2009 - S/Korea in farming deal with Tanzania
» 23.09.2009 - USADF signs new grants in Cape Verde and Tanzania
» 18.09.2009 - Project focus to enhance child nutrition in rural Malawi and Tanzania
» 16.09.2009 - IFAD approves $217.82 million for rural poverty work worldwide
» 14.09.2009 - Zimbabwean farmers to get EU funded boost
» 14.09.2009 - Eastern Africa to harmonise strategies to reach food security
» 14.09.2009 - New pan-African rice centre adopted
» 02.09.2009 - Project help poverty reduction in northern Nigeria
» 01.09.2009 - AU Commission signs compact agreement with Ethiopia
» 31.08.2009 - Boosting smallholder farming key to easing hunger in SADC
» 31.08.2009 - UN expert urges Zambia to keep poverty reduction promises
» 26.08.2009 - Bringing technology and agronomic knowledge to African farmers
» 21.08.2009 - IFAD head concludes visit to Abidjan
» 20.08.2009 - Kenya launches poverty drive projects
» 17.08.2009 - Scientists claim total victory on invasive locusts
» 14.08.2009 - Ethiopia’s food security continues to decline
» 14.08.2009 - State policy should not leave populations homeless, UN expert
» 07.08.2009 - San communities in Botswana get USADF funding
» 06.08.2009 - British funding to secure land peace in Rwanda
» 06.08.2009 - US assures women of support in food production
» 05.08.2009 - Zambian rice farmers get $500,000 in USADF funding
» 03.08.2009 - EU food facility grant to increase farmers’ productivity
» 17.07.2009 - Botswana’s San population receive US grant
» 10.07.2009 - Helping world’s hungry to promote peace and stability
» 26.06.2009 - Sudan ready for biofuels
» 12.06.2009 - Kenya’s small farmers get World Bank support
» 02.06.2009 - Kenyan peas withdrawn from market
» 28.05.2009 - Financing smallholder farmers will grow Africa out of poverty, experts say
» 26.05.2009 - Sierra Leone smallholder farmers get WFP boost
» 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
» 13.05.2009 - UN chief calls for support of small farmers
» 11.05.2009 - Cameroon signs over $13.5 million microfinance development deal with IFAD
» 05.05.2009 - Green revolution must empower farmers, Migiro asserts
» 29.04.2009 - EC provides €394 food security package for world's poor
» 16.04.2009 - Funding to help get back conflict hit communities to farming
» 16.04.2009 - "Senegal self-sufficient on rice by 2012"
» 01.04.2009 - Cocoa processor to double capacity
» 25.03.2009 - China seals food production deal for Africa with FAO
» 23.03.2009 - World food crisis summit gets thumps up
» 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
» 15.12.2008 - Africa summit discuss massive hydro scheme for food and energy security
» 12.12.2008 - Sub-Saharan Africa doing well to combat hunger, but...!
» 01.12.2008 - Global crisis presents a double threat to the poor, report says
» 20.11.2008 - EU "plans to dump" milk, butter in Africa
» 17.11.2008 - African symposium focus on women's role in agriculture
» 11.11.2008 - Kenya recognises agriculture as priority sector
» 04.11.2008 - Stakeholders commit to improve cocoa farming and eradicate poverty
» 20.10.2008 - Côte d'Ivoire cocoa investigation targets big fish
» 17.10.2008 - Food prices may head downwards
» 17.10.2008 - $6.4 Million for rural agricultural project in Angola
» 16.10.2008 - World leaders must keep promise to fight hunger in Africa, Annan
» 10.10.2008 - Banana farmers urged to up local market production
» 10.10.2008 - DRC rural communities receive farming grant
» 08.10.2008 - WCF awards grants to Institutions in Cocoa-producing countries
» 18.09.2008 - US$31.1m loan to Mozambican farmers
» 08.09.2008 - Ghana foreign exchange to surpass $1.2 billion annually
» 29.08.2008 - Tanzanian leader visits US
» 29.08.2008 - Major boost for Liberia palm oil farmers
» 27.08.2008 - Kenyan firms in row over land
» 05.08.2008 - Mali adopts cotton privatisation law
» 24.07.2008 - Swaziland receives agricultural funding from FAO
» 16.07.2008 - Tanzania sugar prepares for global market
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