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Libya Turmoil Could Hurt Regional Food Security — UN

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The United Nations expressed serious concern March 11 about the impact of the Libyan uprising on food security across North Africa because of the region’s dependency on cereal imports. “The ongoing crisis will likely have a significant impact on food security in Libya and in nearby crisis-affected areas,” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said
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WFP Sends Food Aid To North Africa

Food stocks are depleted and supply chains disrupted in Libya, the United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) said March 2, calling for urgent humanitarian aid to the country hit by political unrest. Responding to the critical situation in North Africa, the WFP is launching a $38.7 million emergency operation to provide food assistance to 2.7
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Britain Threatens To Withdraw From FAO

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Britain said Feb. 26 it could leave one of the United Nations’ agencies fighting hunger unless it improves its “patchy” performance. The threat to pull out of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) follows a review of British overseas aid ordered by the nine-month- old coalition government, which administers one of the world’s biggest aid
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Argentina Dissolves Agricultural Export Regulator

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Argentina has dissolved the agricultural trade agency ONCCA responsible for the country’s corn and wheat export limits, and the government said it will still seek to guarantee domestic supply of grains. It was unclear what the move would mean for Argentina’s heavily regulated export policies, which have angered farmers for years. President Cristina Fernandez’s government
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Biofuel Jatropha Doesn’t Measure Up

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Jatropha, a biofuel-producing plant once touted as a wonder crop, is turning out to be much less dependable than first thought, both environmentalists and industry players say. Some biofuel producers found themselves agreeing with many of the criticisms detailed in a report launched by campaign group Friends of the Earth this week “Jatropha: money doesn’t
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Environmental Disaster Hits Eastern Syria

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The ancient Inezi tribe of Syria reared camels in the sandswept lands north of the Euphrates River from the time of the Prophet Mohammad. Now water shortages have consigned that way of life to distant memory. Drought in the past five years has killed 85 per cent of livestock in eastern Syria, the Inezis’ ancestral
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Rwandan Farmers Produce Pigs With A Beat

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Edmund Ndizeye, self-styled pig DJ, stoops to adjust the amp at a farm in the wrinkled hills of northern Rwanda. The wires leading from his room feed a varied diet of hip hop, reggae, R and B, love songs and local music to his pink, curly tailed audience who, according to Ndizeye’s boss, are thriving
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Poverty Reduces Wheat Consumption

Consumption of wheat in Pakistan fell 10 per cent last year, because people lost the purchasing power to buy even that most basic of food staples in the south Asian country, a top UN official said June 2. Wolfgang Herbinger, country director for the World Food Program in Pakistan, said declining wheat consumption was a
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Low Donor Support For Haiti Farming Alarms UN Body

Only eight per cent of a $23 million appeal to help Haiti revive food production after a devastating earthquake has been funded, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Feb. 12. At a meeting of UN agencies in Rome also attended by Haiti’s agriculture minister one month after the earthquake, FAO director general Jacques
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World Bank To Start Agriculture Fund With $1.5 Billion

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The World Bank will start a trust fund to boost agriculture in poor countries with an initial $1.5 billion, its president Robert Zoellick said Nov. 24, warning of the risk of another food price crisis. Crop shortages in India and the Philippines combined with increased speculation in commodity markets by investment funds have increased the

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