Lima - The European Union-Latin America-Caribbean (EU-LAC) summit stressed in its final declaration Friday in Lima that participants were deeply concerned by the impact of increased food prices, specifically citing troubled Haiti as an example. We...
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Activists abandoned protests at the World Trade Organisation this week in favour of quiet lobbying over a global market-opening deal some say is not worth demonstrating against because it has little chance of approval. Free...
Posted to the web 25 July 2008 Kathambi Kinoti The current food crisis is yet another reminder of the feminisation of poverty. In some countries women widowed by HIV and AIDS are routinely disinherited, and in these and many...
Sanjivi Rajasingham, The World Bank acting Country Director for Comoros, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles and Somalia, said global food and energy crises were causing serious setbacks to many countries’ reforms and growth...
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has unveiled a new global soil database that will help better map current and future land productivity as well as the present carbon storage and carbon sequestration...