Food Security
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World Food Day
The sixteenth of October, 2002 is World Food Day, which marks the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). More importantly it offers an opportunity to draw attention to the plight of the world's hungry and the need to work now to ensure a safe and nutritious food supply for the whole world into the future.
This year the focus is "Water: source of food security". Visit the link below to see the wide-ranging content available at the FAO's World Food Da more...
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>World Food Day site of the FAO
October 16, 2002
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A message from our advisor Professor Ruth Oniang'o
Issues important to Africa and Africans are what we publish in the African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND). Broad-ranging interest from our contributors has led us to rename the Journal (formerly the African Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences). See the July issue (link below) for nine peer-reviewed articles, as well as some interesting student contributions, including one piece on the remarkable Hellen Keller. You can view the Journal online or you can rece more...
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>The African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development
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>Food security in Africa
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>Books about agriculture and rural development, including many on Africa
September 20, 2002
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Helping you to search
Helping you find the knowledge you need to pursue your work on food security is the essence of what we do here at the Gateway. We take sophisticated technology, add in our own experience, listen to your requests and do our best to deliver the goods. Below you will find links to some of the subjects visitors to this site have searched for (we can tell from our search logs).

If you search and don't find, get in touch with one of us:
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>Government poverty guidelines
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>GMOs
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>Food rights
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>Africa
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>Credit
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>Urban
September 10, 2002
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Food Security at the World Summit
Agriculture, and by extension food security, is one of the key areas of concern at the World Summit on Sustainable Development taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August - 4 September 2002. Ahead of the Summit, a number of you posted related resources on the site, some of which are highlighted below. The concerns raised at the event will be no less pertinent after it closes on September 4, so we invite you to click on Add it here just below this text an more...
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>ActionAid report on the damage caused by subsidies
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>Declaration on Food Security by Indigenous Peoples
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>Toward Rio+10 and Beyond: Progress in Land and Agriculture
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>The Official World Summit Site
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>Down to Earth: Geographical Information for Sustainable Development in Africa
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>Science and Sustainable Development
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>Gateway Site on the World Summit
August 21, 2002
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