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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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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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$1 million boost for FAO’s food security work

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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FAO calls for worldwide day-long hunger strike

afrol News, 12 November - The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has called for a day-long, worldwide hunger strike, against chronic hunger, on the eve of next week’s World Summit on Food Security.

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» 11.11.2009 - Africa’s poor to suffer due high food prices
» 10.11.2009 - China-Africa commitments applauded
» 10.11.2009 - Mauritanian grassroots groups receive US funding
» 09.11.2009 - AGRA and NEPAD partner to increase food security in Africa
» 28.10.2009 - Tanzanian farmers receive FAO's boost
» 23.10.2009 - $480 million to help in Ethiopia's food security
» 23.10.2009 - Africa told to enhance actions to reduce disaster risk
» 23.10.2009 - Desert locusts in Mauritania not a threat to other states
» 22.10.2009 - Ethiopia needs urgent food aid
» 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
» 14.10.2009 - World's poorest more food insecure with the economic crisis
» 13.10.2009 - Australia helps Zim farmers through World Bank
» 13.10.2009 - Ethiopia still vulnerable to serious hunger
» 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
» 05.10.2009 - Mauritania gets $12 million to boost food production and lower imports
» 05.10.2009 - Food security crucial for Africa's development, AWEPA
» 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 - WFP appeals for urgent $66 million in Uganda
» 28.09.2009 - Global economic crisis to fuel conflict in Africa, experts
» 28.09.2009 - FAO urges policy improvement to turn around Africa's fortunes
» 24.09.2009 - S/Korea in farming deal with Tanzania
» 23.09.2009 - UN steps up work in W/Africa and flashes urgent appeal for Ethiopia
» 23.09.2009 - USADF signs new grants in Cape Verde and Tanzania
» 21.09.2009 - Horn of Africa facing severe food insecurity, FAO
» 21.09.2009 - No end in sight to economic crisis for hard-hit developing world – UN report
» 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
» 16.09.2009 - WFP chief warns of growing crisis for worlds hungry
» 16.09.2009 - WHO warns of possible after floods health disaster in W/Africa
» 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
» 11.09.2009 - Kenya preparing for impact of possible torrential rains
» 08.09.2009 - More people affected by West African floods
» 08.09.2009 - Diarrhoea threatens to wreaks havoc in Ethiopia
» 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
» 28.08.2009 - Senegal gets land management grant from WB
» 26.08.2009 - Drought induced crisis looming in the Horn of Africa
» 26.08.2009 - Bringing technology and agronomic knowledge to African farmers
» 25.08.2009 - WFP appeals for urgent assistance for Kenya
» 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
» 13.08.2009 - South Sudan most hit by global meltdown, UN official
» 12.08.2009 - $1.5 million life-saving support needed in CAR
» 07.08.2009 - Madagascar’s food security remains vulnerable
» 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
» 27.07.2009 - Madagascar’s humanitarian appeal revised down
» 23.07.2009 - EU grant to boost agric production in poor countries
» 22.07.2009 - Fish killing fungus could spread to other part of Africa – FAO
» 17.07.2009 - Aid critical in Somalia, UN
» 16.07.2009 - High food prices continue to hurt the poor, FAO
» 16.07.2009 - Benin to become a rice exporter
» 15.07.2009 - Benin flood victims visited by ECOWAS
» 10.07.2009 - Helping world’s hungry to promote peace and stability
» 10.07.2009 - G8 to commit $15 billion to food security
» 22.06.2009 - Africa has vast agriculture potential, UN study
» 17.06.2009 - UN probes stolen aid in Somalia
» 12.06.2009 - Kenya’s small farmers get World Bank support
» 12.06.2009 - Egypt has enough wheat reserves, govt
» 11.06.2009 - Economic meltdown threatens progress in fight against hunger
» 11.06.2009 - 2009 World food prize laureate goes to Ethiopian scientist
» 08.06.2009 - Local farmers sign US grant deals
» 05.06.2009 - Epic rescue for endangered elephants in Malawi resumes
» 04.06.2009 - African food security improving
» 29.05.2009 - MCC commemorates Africa Day
» 28.05.2009 - Financing smallholder farmers will grow Africa out of poverty, experts say
» 26.05.2009 - Sierra Leone smallholder farmers get WFP boost
» 19.05.2009 - EU awards €54 million to Horn of Africa
» 15.05.2009 - EU grants €106 million to boost agriculture in developing countries
» 15.05.2009 - Angola commits $3.5 million to AfDB's recapitalisation
» 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
» 11.05.2009 - Cameroon signs over $13.5 million microfinance development deal with IFAD
» 08.05.2009 - UNICEF warns Horn of Africa’s children at risk from triple threat
» 07.05.2009 - WFP suspends operations in Chad
» 05.05.2009 - Green revolution must empower farmers, Migiro asserts
» 29.04.2009 - EC provides €394 food security package for world's poor
» 23.04.2009 - Food prices still too high for world's poor, FAO
» 17.04.2009 - Century of drought again to haunt West Africa
» 17.04.2009 - Gambian poor hit by soaring prices
» 16.04.2009 - Funding to help get back conflict hit communities to farming
» 16.04.2009 - "Senegal self-sufficient on rice by 2012"

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