food and agriculture News
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ASA, CSSA, SSSA blog discussion on NIFA AFRI RFAs
Last month, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture released the 2010 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants request for applications (RFA). View full announcement: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/afri_rfa.html. We are interested in hearing your view on the ...
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BIO Announces New Leadership for Food and Agriculture Section Governing Board
The Food and Agriculture Section of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) is pleased to announce the election of its new Board leadership. Sylvia Wulf, CEO of AquaBounty Technologies, Inc., and Brian Brazeau, President of Novozymes North America, were elected as the new Chair and Vice Chair, respectively, of BIO’s Food and Agriculture Section Governing Board. Wulf and Brazeau ...
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IFAD and FAO combine their expertise for better management of projects in fragile states
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide a grant of US$2 million to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for enhanced management and implementation of agricultural development programmes. The pilot project will improve planning capacity of developing countries. Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of IFAD, and José Graziano da Silva, ...
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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 ...
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33RD IPM ESSEN has started
Today (Jan 27, 2015), IPM ESSEN began at Messe Essen. It was opened by Dr. Robert Kloos, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The world's premier horticultural fair is regarded as the leading meeting place of the international green sector. Until Friday, over 1,600 exhibitors from around 50 countries will still present their innovative products and services from the ...
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UN joins forces with Expo 2015 to end hunger
The United Nations and Expo 2015 signed an agreement today confirming the UN’s major support for Expo 2015, during which global attention will zero in on the challenge to eradicate hunger and poverty and on producing enough nutritious food for a world population expected to top 9 billion people by 2050. Expo 2015’s theme, “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life” is at the ...
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Queen Máxima of Netherlands in Ethiopia to highlight importance of financial inclusion for the rural poor
Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, the United Nations Secretary General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA), completed a two-day trip to Ethiopia to support that country's efforts to make financial services more accessible to the rural poor. She was accompanied on the visit by senior officials from the three Rome-based UN agencies focusing on food ...
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Belgium donates €9.2 million to fight poverty, aid governance
Belgium has announced its full support of the renewed FAO Strategic Framework through direct funding to the FAO budget. Belgium will donate €9.2 million over the three-year period 2013-2015 towards FAO programmes that focus on hunger eradication and malnutrition, sustainable production and also poverty eradication in rural areas as well as better governance for food and agriculture in ...
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Harper Government Advances Agricultural Trade in Europe
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz represented the interests of Canadian farmers and met with key trading partners attending the 6th Berlin Agriculture Ministers’ Summit at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture during International Green Week. In addressing the Summit, Minister Ritz called for a science-based approach to regulation to secure access to food, increase rural incomes, and ...
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Governments in Latin America and Caribbean agree on solid measures to eradicate hunger
Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have advanced a robust agenda aimed at achieving the eradication of hunger in the region, during a major FAO meeting which concluded today in Santiago, Chile. All thirty-three countries of the region have reaffirmed their commitment to eradicate hunger by 2025 via the Hunger-Free Latin America and the Caribbean Initiative, as well as pledged to ...
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China pledges $50 million to FAO in support of South-South cooperation
China has announced a $50 million donation to FAO to support the Organization's program of "South-South cooperation" to improve food security and promote sustainable agricultural development over the next five years. Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang made the announcement today in a speech at FAO ahead of tomorrow's World Food Day celebrations. It was his first visit to a UN agency since assuming ...
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These are the 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies
In the ninth annual Disruptor dO list, CNBC highlights the private companies leading out of the pandemic with business models and growth rates aligned with a rapid pace of technological change. Investors have taken notice that the companies on the 2021 Disruptor 50 list have become critical players in fundamental economic and consumer transformations. A majority of the CNBC Disruptor 50 are ...
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Science societies support current Farm Bill recommendations
Movement on the 2012 Farm Bill, as previously planned by the Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday, April 25 is currently being rescheduled. But the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) is applauding Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow and Ranking Member Pat Roberts for crafting the ...
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ASA Writes Farm Bill Conferees on Research, Crop Insurance
ASA joined farm bill stakeholders in two letters to conferees this week. An unusual group of 42 stakeholders wrote in support of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), which is included in the Senate-passed bill. “The Foundation would complement USDA’s portfolio of intramural and extramural research programs,” the letter says. “Establishing a FFAR will ...
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Farmers in 11 developing countries win UN-backed grants for conserving crops
Nicaraguan farmers preserving ancient varieties of potatoes, and Kenyan women revitalizing differing types of millet are among projects in 11 developing countries to win supporting grants for their work, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today. A total of more than $500,000 will go to farming projects in Egypt, Kenya, Costa Rica, India, Peru, Senegal, Uruguay, ...
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Global Hunger Down, But Millions Still Chronically Hungry
Some 842 million people, or roughly one in eight, suffered from chronic hunger in 2011-13, not getting enough food to lead active and healthy lives according to a report released by the UN food agencies. The number is down from 868 million reported for the 2010-12 period, according to the State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI 2013), published every year by the Food and Agriculture ...
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NFU Urges DOJ to Block Tyson’s Buyout of Hillshire
National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson issued the following statement in response to reports that Tyson Foods won a bidding war to acquire Hillshire Brands: “Tyson Food’s likely purchase of Hillshire benefits corporate owners at the expense of farmers and consumers. Our country is worse off because of the increasingly consolidated food and agriculture marketplace. ...
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School feeding sourced to small farmers breaks new ground in Africa
An innovative partnership in five African countries is breaking new ground in the fight against hunger and malnutrition by sourcing food for school meals to production by small-scale farmers. During its initial phase last year, the Purchase from Africans for Africa Programme (PAA) involved over 5,000 family farmers in feeding programmes in 424 schools in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger and ...
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Supporting family farms key for healthy food systems
While substantial progress has been made in the fight against hunger in recent years, more than 800 million people remain hungry and efforts need to be increased to reach the global target of cutting the percentage of hungry people in half by 2015, said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva in his opening remarks at the annual World Food Day ceremony, held at FAO Headquarters in ...
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Call for better food systems to fight hunger and malnutrition
Better food systems are required in order to defeat hunger and malnutrition around the globe was the key message coming from the observance of World Food Day at FAO headquarters. World Food Day, commemorated in 150 countries, is also the anniversary of FAO's founding in 1945. This year's observance takes place under the shadow of new hunger figures that show a total of 842 million people are ...
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