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| 27 April 2009 |
Launch of a new on-line Food Aid Information System (FAIS)
The new on-line Food Aid Information System (FAIS) can be reached at:http://www.wfp.org/fais. Access is free to all users without registration. The FAIS website makes available the INTERFAIS database on global food aid flows.... |
| 27 April 2009 |
Japan to Promote Farm Investment Overseas for Food Security
By Aya Takada, Bloomberg, 27th April 2009Japan, the world’s largest grain importer, will help local companies invest in agricultural production and distribution overseas to ensure stable supply as global food demand increases. ... |
| 24 April 2009 |
SRI LANKA: Mass exodus leads to massive humanitarian need
IRIN News, 23 April 2009 International and Sri Lankan relief agencies and government authorities are scrambling all available resources, and sending out appeals for more assistance, after over 100,000 Sri Lankan civilians fled... |
| 24 April 2009 |
AIDS prevention: Abstinence vs. risk reduction
By Esther Duflo, Vox (Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists), 20 April 2009In Africa, where AIDS afflicts 22 million people, most religions promote abstinence and fidelity as the best way to... |
| 23 April 2009 |
SOMALIA: Drought-affected flock to towns in central region
IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks) News, 22 April 2009 More and more drought-affected internally displaced persons (IDPs) are flocking to towns across Somalia's central region of Galgadud in search of food, despite... |
| 22 April 2009 |
New Database on Sources of Income in Developing Countries
A vast array of income generating activities forms the basis of the diverse livelihoods of rural households. As part of the Rural Income Generating Activities (RIGA) project, FAO created a large innovative database... |
| 22 April 2009 |
‘Agrologistics’ at home and abroad
Nicholas Norbrook, Trade Invest Africa, 8th April 2009
Focusing on satisfying local markets rather than foreign demand may be the best way to start the virtuous circle that farmers need in order to expand, but similar tools are... |
| 21 April 2009 |
Esther Duflo: the new French intellectual
By Patrice de Beer, OpenDemocracy.net, 9 - 04 - 2009A young French development economist is reinvigorating her profession by pioneering new anti-poverty strategies focused on experiment and evaluation, finds Patrice de... |
| 20 April 2009 |
G8 admits losing battle against hunger
Javier Blas in Cison di Valmarino, Italy, The Financial Times, April 20 2009
The Group of Eight leading nations called on Monday “for increasing public and private investment” in agriculture, but their communiqué after the... |
| 17 April 2009 |
PREVIEW-G8 farm ministers to meet on food security, supply
Svetlana Kovalyova, Reuters, 16th April 2009
* Food security tops G8 farm ministers agenda
* Farmers propose grain global reserve
* France to push aid partnershipFood security and boosting global agricultural output to... |
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