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• The Environmental Issues – Appropriate conservation and sustainable development strategies attempt to recognize this as being integral to any approach.

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 123
  Nature and Animal Conservation        Preserving species and their habitats is important for ecosystems to self-sustain themselves. Yet, the pressures to destroy habitat for logging, illegal hunting, and other challenges are making conservation a struggle. Visit : http://www.globalissues.org/article/1… ...
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• Group on Earth Observations strengthens access to data and information

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 134
  The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is holding its annual Plenary meeting in Washington on 17-18 November to assess and promote progress towards making information about global environmental change readily available to policy-makers, managers and anyone else who needs it. "GEO is on track to make critical ...
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• Federation Needs To Keep Careful Eye On World Hunger

  
  Nevis Island Tourism Information Blog. — Authority: 142
  Robelto Hector at FAO Summit in Rome Charlestown, Nevis November 23, 2009 Minister of Agriculture in the Nevis Island Administration Hon. Robelto Hector said it was important for small island developing states like St. Kitts and Nevis to participate in conferences which dealt with issues related to world ...
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• Words from the (Investment) Wise (November 22, 2009)

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 439
  Stock markets succumbed to a bout of profit-taking last week, sparked by concerns that the rally has overshot the pace of economic recovery. Riskier assets were showing signs of fatigue as the US dollar - the catalyst of many recent moves - stabilized and was perceived to be near its trough (if only short-term in the ...
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• Words from the Investment Wise 11.22.09

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 153
  Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (November 16 – 22, 2009) Stock markets succumbed to a bout of profit-taking last week, sparked by concerns that the rally has overshot the pace of economic recovery. Riskier assets were showing signs of fatigue as the US dollar – the catalyst of many recent ...
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• Bolivia Urban Agriculture – FAO film in Spanish

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 130
  Bolivia Urban Agricultural Project FAO/UN film (in Spanish) about urban agriculture in Bolivia involving young people. This film shows an FAO initiative which is improving city dwellers’ lives by helping them grow their own food.
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• News Feed — November 20, 2009

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 492
  Fund Good Food The Kellogg Foundation announced $32 million worth of grants in the local food arena last week, to be spent over the next three years in nine communities across the country. Or Not Many are disappointed by the results of the World Hunger Summit in Rome this week, where few leaders from wealthier ...
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• Food Security summit sees increased commitment to boost food supplies

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 513
  The three-day World Summit on Food Security ended on Wednesday after the international community committed to invest more in agriculture.Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf, who hosted the event, said the Summit marked “an important step towards the achievement of our common ...
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• Food for thought in thinking about food: 2009 World Summit on Food Security

  
  OurWorld 2.0 — Authority: 414
  On November 13, 2009, Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General, Jacques Diouf, embarked on a 24-hour public hunger strike, in the lead up to this week’s World Summit on Food Security in Rome.Diouf’s call for action to end the scourge of hunger comes on the heels of July’s G8 summit in Aquila, Italy, ...
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• One billion hungry people waiting for action on food security

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 495
  The world food security conference in Rome, Italy closed 18 November with promises to invest more in agriculture and “to eradicate hunger at the earliest date”, according to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), which hosted the three-day event. FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf expressed his ...
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• Testimonials on national statistical information systems for food and agriculture

  
  FARA Secretariat — Authority: 131
  CountrySTAT is a national statistical information system for food and agriculture. The system harmonizes and integrates data on food and agriculture coming from different sources. Through a core database, policy makers and researchers can group data across thematic areas - such as production, trade and consumption - ...
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• More talk, more promises, more hunger

  
  MAKE WEALTH HISTORY — Authority: 471
  This week has been the UN’s World Summit on Food Security , which makes it a good time to share this rather startling graph out of the Financial Times . That leap is down to the soaring food prices that we saw in 2008, when the price of rice, wheat and other staples rocketed. The price rises didn’t mean so much ...
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• FAO: Flag

  
  Ads of the World — Authority: 715
  Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson Rome, Italy Creative Director: Marco Carnevale Art Directors: Cristiana Guidi, Francesco Basile Copywriter: Alessandro Sciortino Photographer: Marco Mona Published: November 2009
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• Stop the global land grab! GRAIN STATEMENT AT THE JOINT GRAIN-LA VIA CAMPESINA MEDIA BRIEFING

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 138
  Rome, 16 November 2009                       http://www.grain.org/o/?id=87 ”The question we should be asking is not “How do we make these investments work?” It is “What farming and food systems will feed people without making them sick, keep farmers on the farm instead of the city ...
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• Rome Food Summit and the self serving interests of the Food and Agricultural Organization

  
  Opinione — Authority: 125
  Which government action do you think keeps more people hungry and malnourished in the world: The lack of government funding for aid agencies like the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), or the agricultural trade policies of western governments like farm subsides? If you guessed the former rather ...
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• Sanita’: il san raffaele giglio sosterrà sviluppo ospedale in burundi

  
  SALUTE DOMANI ? IL PORTALE DEL BENESSERE — Authority: 151
  La Fondazione Istituto San Raffaele Giglio di Cefalù sosterrà lo sviluppo dell’ospedale di Mabay in Burundi. Lo ha detto il presidente della Fondazione siciliana al termine di un incontro con il presidente delle Repubblica del Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, avvenuto a margine del vertice Fao al quale partecipa il ...
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• Fao, faim dans le monde, milliards, pays riches et pour la faim on a pas les moyens

  
  THE BLORG! Corp — Authority: 139
  Cest lactu dont tout le monde se fout en ce moment...
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• Food summit turns down UN funding appeal

  
  EndrTimes — Authority: 445
  By ARIEL DAVID, AP posted: 7 HOURS 7 MINUTES AGO ROME -Pope Benedict XVI decried the steadily worsening tragedy of world hunger on Monday after a global summit rebuffed a U.N. call to commit billions of dollars a year for a new strategy to help poor countries feed themselves. The meeting at the U.N. Food and ...
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• World Summit on Food Security labels food crisis a “wake-up call”

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 513
  World leaders convened at FAO Headquarters for the World Summit on Food Security overnight and unanimously adopted a declaration pledging renewed commitment to eradicate hunger from the face of the earth sustainably and at the earliest date. The Summit is due to tackle the issue of food security as food price fears ...
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• Global Food Security Summit Taking Place in Rome

  
  Friends of the World Food Program: Uniting to End Hunger — Authority: 133
  Today marks the first day of a three-day global food security summit hosted by the United Nations in Rome.  The summit will call for “urgent action” against hunger, as there are now over 1 billion people going hungry every day.  United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened the summit by connecting ...
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