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• Over 20 million people need food aid in East Africa: U.N (Google / Reuters)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : Google Alert – droughthttp://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE5A92TV20091110Over 20 million people need food aid in east Africa: U.NBy Silvia AloisiROME (Reuters) – Drought and war in eastern Africa have left more than 20 million people in desperate need of emergency food aid, the United Nations ...
  19 hours ago

• FAO and traditional knowledge

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 130
  In developed and developing countries all over the world, farmers and indigenous and local communities have traditional knowledge, expertise, skills and practices related to food security and to food and agricultural production and diversity. This report from FAO explains ways that it includes traditional and ...
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• African Agriculture Development Meeting Opens in Abuja

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The 5th Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Partnership Platform Meeting opened on Monday in Abuja with more than 50 African countries and donor agencies in attendance. The meeting is being held in preparation of the three-day World Summit on Food Security in Rome (16-18 November) where ...
  2 days ago

• FAO and EU : Seed and fertilizer to Pakistani farmers (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : UNNewsPAKISTANI FARMERS GET HELP TO BOOST PRODUCTION FROM UN, EUROPEAN UNIONNew York, Nov  9 2009 10:05AMThe United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (<”http://www.fao.org/”>FAO) and the European Union (EU) have partnered to provide seed and fertilizer to almost 100,000 farmers in rural ...
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• Hear the good news from Rome (Willem Van Cotthem)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  For many years scientists-members of the CST (Committee on Science and Technology) of the UNCCD (UN Convention to Combat Desertification) have been asking for strong UN-decisions to apply well-known success stories and best practices to mitigate drought, to combat desertification and to alleviate poverty.Repeatedly ...
  3 days ago

• Africa: economy

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 134
  Africa development indicators 2008-2009 ; Kenya ; SciDevNet Sub-Saharan Africa 23 August 2007 Is Western aid making a difference in Africa? (CSM) Two US economists [Ayub Rioba and Jeffrey Sachs] debate the value of antipoverty efforts. “Is this really how to save Africa?” asks Tanzanian columnist Ayub ...
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• Tenure to land and other natural resources (AfricaFiles / all Africa / FAO)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : AfricaFileshttp://www.africafiles.org/afgeneral.asp Two FAO land initiatives Author: various, CapetownDate Written: 30 October 2009Primary Category: Africa General Document Origin: AllAfrica.comSecondary Category: -none-Source URL: http://allafrica.com/ Key Words: FAO, land initiatives, food ...
  4 days ago

• WAR AGAINST HUNGER, GLOBAL WARMING CAN BE WON ON FARMLANDS (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : UNNewsWAR AGAINST HUNGER, GLOBAL WARMING CAN BE WON ON FARMLANDS; UN REPORTNew York, Nov  5 2009 11:05AMThe world’s farmlands can be the frontline for the fight against the impact of climate change and the battle to feed the mounting global population, according to a new ...
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• Order to Cash Outsourcing - 5 Reasons Why It’s a Trend to Watch Today

  
  Consider the Source — Authority: 116
  By Art Shanfeld, Senior Advisor, TPI Order to Cash (OTC) outsourcing has typically been on CFOs’ lists of “potential outsourcing opportunities,” but it has not risen to the top of the list until recently. TPI is seeing more interest and activity in OTC outsourcing this year in spite of - and possibly ...
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• MALNUTRITION AND THE HEARTBEAT FOR SCHOOL GARDENS (Willem VAN COTTHEM)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Every now and then we read about the huge problem of malnourished children being at great risk of contracting infectious diseases.  Repeatedly the same causes are mentioned : lack of food, lack of knowledge of good nutritional practices, high prices for many basic food products, poor  drinking water quality and ...
  6 days ago

• New York Food Talk

  
  Epicurienne — Authority: 103
  It’s that time of year again, when a weekend in New York looms in Big Apple style on the pre-Christmas horizon. I have long associations with this city; it was in New York that, as a foetus, I first kicked my mother from the inside out, thrilling her with the reality of impending motherhood. It was as a teenager in ...
  1 week ago

• East Africa Job alerts

  
  nukta77 — Authority: 146
  Business Development Manager About Us Our Vision is "To be the best provider of logistics solutions" Siginon Freight is a leading logistics and transportation company in Kenya. Our Head Office is based in Mombasa, and Branch office at Nairobi, J.K.I.A. Cargo Village. We offer a wide range of services all under one ...
  1 week ago

• Taking a walk on the Wacki side...

  
  The Outsourcing Blog: Horses for Sources — Authority: 413
  If there’s one person who’s been a consistent figure closely tied to the development of Finance and Accounting sourcing over the last decade, it’s Paul Nowacki (or to those of us know him, simply “Wacki”), who today leads F&A; transformation for leading sourcing strategy and implementation consultancy, ...
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• Feeding the world without harming it (IRINNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : IRINNewsGLOBAL: Feeding the world without harming it CAPE TOWN, 3 November 2009 (IRIN) – Countries with growing populations can boost food production without punishing the environment if they are willing to experiment with less harmful farming practices, experts at a recent conference on biodiversity ...
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• Myanmar/Burma

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 134
  20 July 2009 David Kilgour writes: Since it’s very probable that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will soon be ‘convicted’ of a bogus offence, perhaps we friends of Burma and DASSK should send the link to her pages below to as many friends as possible in anticipation. See also Wednesday-night.com on Burma U.S. ...
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• Africa Weekly Sustainable Development Guidance Document (IISD)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : Africa WeeklySustainable Development Guidance DocumentEdition 1:18 – Tuesday, 3 November 2009Editors Note: Welcome to the eighteenth issue of IISD’s Africa Weekly Sustainable Development Guidance Document. The Guidance Document replaces our Linkages Africa newsletter, and we aim to provide this service ...
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• UN INITIATIVE TO TACKLE DEFORESTATION (UNNews / REDD)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : UNNewsFIVE NATIONS SIGN UP TO UN INITIATIVE TO TACKLE DEFORESTATIONNew York, Nov  2 2009  3:05PMFive countries today <”http://www.un-redd.org/NewsCentre/tabid/969/language/en-US/Default.aspx”>joined the United Nations initiative aimed at combating climate change by creating incentives for poorer ...
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• AVOIDABLE POST-HARVEST LOSSES WORSEN HUNGER (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : UNNewsHUGE AMOUNTS OF AVOIDABLE POST-HARVEST LOSSES WORSENS HUNGER FOR POOR – UNNew York, Nov  2 2009  6:05PMThe plight of the hungry in developing countries is needlessly aggravated by farmers losing up to half of their crops after gathering the harvest, the United Nations agricultural agency said ...
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• Did food production in Sub-Saharan Africa grew in 2008 beause of increased research?

  
  FARA Secretariat — Authority: 425
  12–13 October. Rome. Food production in Sub-Saharan Africa grew in 2008 for the first time in decades, according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).The 3.5 per cent increase — higher than the two per cent rise in population — was driven in part by increased use of technology, says ...
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• FAO Schwarz: Magazines

  
  Ads of the World — Authority: 707
  Better rewards, better kid. Advertising Agency: Gang of One, New York, USA Art Director: Braden Belmonte Copywriter: Marc Stolove Illustrator: Patrick Miranda
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