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  • Head of UN agriculture agency helps launch Haiti?s spring planting season (16 Mar 2010 06:32)

    ... FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf (right) digs in during ... initiative The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( ) has helped kick off Haiti"s ... and fertilizers between March and June. The UN and the Haitian Government last month issued ...

  • Feed Manual to be Launched at Cancun Congress (16 Mar 2010 10:12)

    ... International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The manual ... the IFIF and issued as part of FAO's publications on Animal Production & Health – ... with technical participation of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). ...

  • Al-Hassan stresses promotion of environmental culture, voluntary action (16 Mar 2010 08:21)

    ... coincided with the vision adopted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that called on world countries to ... National Assembly's environmental affairs committee and the FAO. He added that this project gained approval ...

  • Liberia - Rice production (16 Mar 2010 01:13)

    ... (UNDP), the Ministry of Gender and Development, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and WFP under the joint program of ... fact that the Gbedin Farmers Cooperative has begun to produce huge quantity of rice, said ...

  • Art and threatened/threatening nature (16 Mar 2010 12:38)

    ... the first. A striking example of this is livestock farming, which according to the FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) is "one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most ...

  • 20 Million People in East Africa are Food Insecure (16 Mar 2010 09:30)

    ... Kigali — A study by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has revealed that 20 million people from ... the matter. Antonio Pedro, the Director of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) revealed the ...

  • Africa annual food imports touch $33 billion (16 Mar 2010 12:02)

    ... UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said the ... expectations, the report said. According to UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the continent has 265 million undernourished people ...

  • Bicycles needed to fight "tied legs" syndrome (16 Mar 2010 13:41)

    ... not have cyanide, as was being done by local NGOs, with funding from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Konzo disease, according to the World Health Organization, is a tropical myelopathy, characterized by ...

  • Global Nutrition Transition Conference: Physicians and nutrition scientists to discuss solutions for preventing obesity (16 Mar 2010 08:16)

    ... the same time, the incidence of -related diseases is also on the rise. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations predicts that between 1998 and 2025, the number of people with worldwide will double ...

  • Bluefin tuna: Japan 'lobbying' blasted at CITES talks (16 Mar 2010 05:25)

    ... on international trade, the head of the UN wildlife trade organisation said on Saturday. "The ... conclusion "has been confirmed by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and the scientific committee of the ICCAT," ...

  • Holbeach born scientist saved millions of lives (16 Mar 2010 10:49)

    ... viral animal diseases such as African swine fever, pox viruses, and herpes viruses. The Food and Agriculture Organisation predicts that the cost of eradicating Rinderpest was less than $3 million, and because ...

  • Head of UN agriculture agency helps launch Haiti's spring planting season (15 Mar 2010 22:11)

    ... Head of UN agriculture agency helps launch Haitis spring planting ... agency helps launch Haitis spring planting season FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf (right) digs in during ... initiative The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( ) has helped kick off Haitis ...

  • FAO James Delingpole: climate change and other myths (15 Mar 2010 12:16)

    ... want you to smoke is because the United Nations intend to bring down America by destroying ... have noticed if we were orbiting the Sun at 60,000 miles an hour, don't you? ...

  • Engineer Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansoori inaugurates the two-day Line Operation Safety Audit and Threat Error Management Conference (15 Mar 2010 11:10)

    ... for an active and healthy life. We work towards that vision with our sister UN agencies in Rome -- the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) -- as well as other government, ...

  • Minister of State for Overseas Development Peter Power announces '¬800,000 in funding to Irish and international organisations in Haiti (15 Mar 2010 23:20)

    ... provided to Plan Ireland, Christian Aid and UN agencies. This latest round of emergency funding ... availability. Irish Aid is supporting the UNs Food and Agriculture Organisation to protect the vital agriculture sector from ... to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to support the recovery of the agriculture ...

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