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| Africa Economy - Development | Politics | Society Industrial development key to Africa’s integration in global economy afrol News - The head of the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) has warned that Africa must overcome the obstacles to boosting industrial production and gaining a larger share of world trade to benefit from the global economy. |
| Africa | World Politics | Economy - Development | Society UN-lawmakers' partnership can help the poor out of recession, Ban afrol News - National parliaments are key allies of the United Nations in its efforts to haul the world’s most vulnerable people out of the global economic crisis, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told an international gathering of lawmakers in New York. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society Developing countries urged to make agriculture a funding priority afrol News - 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. |
| Africa Economy - Development | Environment - Nature | Society Preserve water sources - report afrol News - Africa has been urged to adopt urgent measures to preserve the continents fresh water resources as climate change threatens water sources. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society FAO chief regrets no measurable targets adopted to fight hunger afrol News - 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. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Politics | Society Countries in conflict greatly challenged by corruption afrol News - As the world economy begins to register a tentative recovery and some nations continue to wrestle with ongoing conflict and insecurity, it is clear that no region of the world is immune to the perils of corruption, according to Transparency International’s 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), a measure of domestic, public sector corruption released today. |
| Africa | World Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development | Society $1 million boost for FAO’s food security work afrol News - 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. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Politics Transforming African infrastructure require additional $31 billion a year afrol News - A study recently conducted in 24 African countries shows that the poor state of infrastructure in Sub Saharan Africa - its electricity, water, roads, and information and communications technology (ICT) - cuts national economic growth by 2 percentage points every year and reduces business productivity by as much as 40 percent. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Agriculture - Nutrition | Politics | Society FAO calls for worldwide day-long hunger strike afrol News - 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. |
| Africa | World Economy - Development | Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Environment - Nature | Human rights | Society Africa’s poor to suffer due high food prices afrol News - Millions of people in dozens of poor countries are in desperate need of emergency humanitarian aid, despite good global cereal harvests this year. This due to stubbornly high food prices, the United Nations agricultural agency warned in a report released yesterday. |
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