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Opportunity International and Caterpillar Foundation launch $1 million corporate challenge to help alleviate global poverty through savings-based microfinance programs

With the year-end charitable giving season just around the corner, Opportunity International and the Caterpillar Foundation, the charitable arm of global equipment manufacturer, Caterpillar Inc., have launched an aggressive $1 million challenge grant that will enable corporations and small businesses to double the impact of their donations to Opportunity International. From now through Dec. 31, ...

Nov. 15, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Further set of EU rural development programmes for the period 2007-2013 agreed

The Rural Development Committee (consisting of representatives of the 27 Member States) gave a positive opinion to the Rural Development programmes of Denmark, Scotland, France (Guadeloupe) and Italy (Valle d'Aosta, Puglia, Sicily and Basilicata) for the financial period 2007-2013. These programmes are defined to guarantee infrastructure, create new income opportunities for rural regions, promote ...

Jan. 24, 2008

By European Commission, Agriculture and Rural Development DG

De Castro: “Gmo? - I agree with eu commissioner dacian ciolos a balance between the rights of consumers and producers”

Hon. Paolo De Castro lines up with the position of the new president of the Agriculture Commission, Rumanian Dacian Ciolos: "Ensure the needs of consumers for food safety and the right for a safe experiment by agriculturists." The future of the CAP after 2013 will be discussed at European level in the next few months. "However, agriculture - that takes almost 40% of the EU financial statement - ...

Feb. 4, 2010

By Veronafiere

Agriculture Secretary Announces Funding to Improve Broadband Service for Rural Customers in Four States

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack today announced loans to help finance the construction of broadband networks in rural Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon and South Dakota. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) remains focused on carrying out its mission, despite a time of significant budget uncertainty. Today's announcement is one part of the Department's efforts to strengthen the rural economy. "Rural ...

Sep. 19, 2013

By U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

READ global, in partnership with the community of ura and the global law firm, linklaters, inaugurates the first community-owned library in Bhutan

On May 26, 2010, READ (Rural Education and Development) Global, READ Bhutan, and the community of Ura inaugurated the first READ Community Library and Resource Center ("READ Center") in Bhutan. As the second public library in the entire country, Aurbay Sher Shong Poizokhang (ASSP) Community Library and Resource Center has been equipped with a library stocked with books for adults and children, a ...

Jul. 26, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Farmers struggle to adopt climate-smart methods

Preliminary results from a project aimed at helping Malawi, Vietnam and Zambia make the transition to a "climate-smart" approach to agriculture show that some farmers are struggling to adopt the new methods, while others are finding ways to cope well with climate-change problems like late rains. "To broaden the options available to farmers, we believe that increased investment, coming from both ...

Aug. 14, 2013

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

IFAD and FAO target small-scale agricultural projects facing challenges

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have launched a new joint project to help developing countries, particularly fragile states, manage public investments in small-scale agriculture more effectively. The UN food agencies will co-finance the $2.6 million initiative focusing on countries where a lack of strong national ...

Oct. 2, 2013

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Kubota and Vermeer Announce Strategic Marketing Alliance

Alliance with Kubota Involves Vermeer Forage Equipment for the Agricultural Market TORRANCE, Calif. - Kubota Tractor Corporation and Vermeer Corporation announce a strategic marketing alliance for the sale of performance-matched, allied-approved, Vermeer forage equipment. The combination Kubota and Vermeer Dealers now have the opportunity to sell Vermeer forage equipment, such as balers, rakes ...

Oct. 12, 2010

By Vermeer

World Cocoa Foundation holds 17th partnership meeting on Cocoa sustainability

The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) today began its 17th Partnership Meeting in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The two‐day meeting on cocoa sustainability, held in association with the Rabobank Foundation and Rabobank International, is attended by over 200 representatives from the cocoa and chocolate industry, cocoa‐producing countries, government agencies, development organizations and civil ...

May 19, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

CGIAR consortium chief pledges to `cement` reforms

The new head of the Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers, which was established as part of a major reform of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), has praised progress made so far in streamlining the organisation. In 2009 CGIAR announced that it would bring its 15 centres around the world into a consortium to work on a series of research ...

Jun. 15, 2012

By SciDev.Net

Ministries Need to Collaborate to Ensure Continued Productivity of Farmland and Forests in ECA

As economies in the ECA region grow, farm and forest productivity will need to keep pace with rising consumer and industrial demand for food and wood. But doing so by pushing natural resources beyond their limits can be disastrous. Governments in the region have taken steps to address this issue, but they – ministries of environment in partnership with others such as agriculture, forestry and ...

Nov. 19, 2007

By The World Bank

Indonesia has chocolate on its mind: help for Cocoa smallholder farmers

International cooperation includes Swisscontact, the World Cocoa Foundation, Armajaro Trading Ltd (UK), and Mars Incorporated (US). 21-month US$6.8 million pilot program trains 12,500 farmers directly. Goal: Increase productivity by 50%. 75% of cocoa beans will meet the Indonesian national standard versus 25% currently. Indonesia is the world's third largest cocoa producer. Cocoa is the main ...

Aug. 4, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Canadian Agriculture to Benefit from WTO Agreement

The World Trade Organization’s Ninth Ministerial Conference recently concluded in Bali, Indonesia with member countries agreeing on a new trade facilitation agreement (TFA) that will benefit Canadian farmers and agricultural exporters. This TFA represents the WTO's first multilateral trade agreement to be concluded since the establishment of the WTO in 1995. Canadian Agriculture Minister, ...

Dec. 7, 2013

By Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

BIO Issues Call for Sessions for 2012 BIO International Convention

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) invites biotechnology industry experts, policy leaders, analysts, academics and other thought leaders to submit proposals for breakout sessions at the 2012 BIO International Convention, the global event for biotechnology, to be held June 18-21, 2012 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, MA. ...

Aug. 22, 2011

By Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

Two new online mapping applications launched to support sustainable palm oil in Indonesia

Forest Cover Analyzer and Suitability Mapper to be used by business and government to reduce deforestation The World Resources Institute (WRI) is launching two powerful online mapping applications that offer unprecedented capabilities to support industry and government efforts to achieve more sustainable palm oil production in Indonesia. WRI developed these web tools in consultation with the ...

Oct. 29, 2012

By World Resources Institute WRI

Helping countries reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions

With the consequences of climate change for the world's food production systems becoming increasingly clear, more needs to be done to capitalize on agriculture's potential to mitigate global warming, says a new FAO guidance document published today. Agriculture is directly responsible for over 10 percent of all human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, FAO figures show. But improved farming ...

Aug. 6, 2013

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Harnessing carbon financing to boost sustainable farming

Some 100 experts from five continents have met to chart the way to harnessing a large new flow of funding – carbon finance – to agricultural development and to improving the lives of poor farmers the world over. Billions of dollars are available every year under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism to finance initiatives helping reduce the amount of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions into ...

Oct. 29, 2008

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Common bacteria pinned down as cause of shrimp die-off

A cause of a mysterious disease devastating shrimp farms across Asia since 2009 has been tracked back to a strain of a bacteria native to coastlines around the world. The shrimp early mortality syndrome has perplexed experts for years, in a region where roughly one million people depend on shrimp farming for survival. So far countries officially reporting the disease — also referred to as ...

May 22, 2013

By SciDev.Net

Agriculture Industry Seeks to Create Right to Farm

In the nation's agricultural heartland, farming is more than a multibillion-dollar industry that feeds the world. It could be on track to become a right, written into law alongside the freedom of speech and religion. Some powerful agriculture interests want to declare farming a right at the state level as part of a wider campaign to fortify the ag industry against crusades by animal-welfare ...

Jul. 10, 2014

By Associated Press

Kenya’s smallholder farmers to get IFAD funding

The funding of US$71.8mn will go towards the Kenya Cereal Enhancement Programme – Climate-Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Window which will benefit ten thousand smallholder farmers, including women-headed households and young people whose livelihoods depend on maize, sorghum, millet and associated pulses living in eight eastern and coastal semi-arid counties. Of the total amount, ...

Sep. 8, 2015

By TractorExport

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