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The strategic multi-annual programme on "Environment and sustainable management of natural resources, including energy" (ENRTP) was adopted by the Commission in 2007 and provides a multi-annual framework...

FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf has invited governments around the world to participate in negotiations to agree on a declaration for adoption by the World Summit of Heads of State and Government on Food Security, to take...

A new variety of rice being tested in the fields of India's eastern Jharkhand state has the potential to change the face of Indian agriculture.

Read full news at: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8182840.stm

Syria is currently experiencing the dramatic effects of a drought that has been affecting the country since 2006. As a consequence of climate change, the severity of the ongoing drought has now reached a level which forces people...

Women farmers in southern Morocco find cactus plants are a real money spinner. The cactus, previously eaten as a fruit or used for animal feed, is creating a minor economic miracle in the region thanks to new health and cosmetic...

Development, the flagship publication of the Society for International Development (SID), is calling for papers for its March 2010 issue on volume 53 no 1.

The focus of Development 53.1 will be on what kind of new...

The Agricultural and Development Economics Division (ESA) at FAO has launched a new website called Seed2D. The website is a valuable information resource for issues regarding Agricultural Biodiversity.

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World hunger is projected to reach a historic high in 2009 with 1 020 million people going hungry every day, according to new estimates published by FAO today.

The most recent increase in hunger is not the consequence of poor...

4th Annual Conference of the GARNET network, Rome

11-13 November 2009 

The 4th Annual Conference of the GARNET Network of Excellence (Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of the EU)  is...

Governments present at the L’Aquila G8 Summit committed themselves to aim at substantially increasing aid to agriculture and food security and pledged to mobilize $20 billion over three years.

Leaders endorsed the...