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3-Year Darfur Conflict Leads to Emergency Food Situation in Sudan

The conflict in the

Darfur region of western Sudan between the Janjaweed and the non-Baggara people began in July 2003. The estimated number of deaths in the conflict have ranged from 50 000 (WHO 2004) to 450 000 (Reeves 2006). As many as 2,5 million are thought to have been displaced. The mass media have described the conflict as both ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide.’ Below ar more...

January 5, 2007
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E-Agriculture - Cyberagriculture - Ciberagricultura

The impact that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can have on sustainable development, and in particular, agriculture, has been highlighted through the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and other global platforms. The realization of the effective application of e-agriculture has become a ma more...

September 26, 2006
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2008 World Development Report to Focus
on Agriculture and Development

The World Bank has announced its flagship research publication and showcase for the latest Bank thinking on development--the World Development Report--will focus on Agriculture and Development  in 2008, the first WDR to focus on agriculture since 1982. President Paul Wolfowitz selected agriculture as the topic for the first WDR to be completely produced under his leadership.


The World Development Report is produced on an annual more...

July 7, 2006
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Bi-Monthly Highlight: World Urban Forum (19-23 June 2006)
A UN-Habitat event on urban sustainability to bring together public and private institutions, experts and decision-makers from around the world to discuss key urban challenges facing the world today. It is projected that in the next fifty years, two-thirds of humanity will be living in towns and cities. A major challenge is to minimize burgeoning poverty in cities and improve the urban poor's access to basic facilities such as shelter, clean water and sanitation. Event held in Vancouve more...
June 13, 2006
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Bi-Monthly Highlight: Gender and Food Security

Rural women are responsible for half of the world's food production and produce between 60-80% of the food in most developing countries. Yet, despite their contribution to global food security, women farmers are frequently underestimated and overlooked in development strategies. A lack of available gender disaggregated data means that women's contribution to agriculture in particular is poorly understood and their specific needs ig more...

March 8, 2006
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Contribution to the dgSpecial Report on Online Education:
EC-FAO's Food Security Information for Action Programme
Reinforcing Capacity through Distance Learning
The Programme aims at enhancing national and local capacity to generate, manage, and use food security information from different sectors for more effective policies and programmes. This multi-disciplinary country-based initiative draws on FAO's expertise in early warning and remote sensing, economic and policy analysis, statistics, nutrition, inter-agency coordination, and training and capacity building. Special features of the Programme include a consultancy fund for additional more...
February 10, 2006
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Bi-Monthly Highlight
HIV/AIDS, Nutrition, and Food Security Conference
(8-12 May 2006 - Lusaka, Zambia)
 

Project Concern International and partners are hosting this event bringing together development professionals, health experts, government officials, grassroots organizations, and business leaders from Africa, Europe and the United States. The conference, entitled "Food Security and HIV/AIDS:  An Integrated Response to the Dual Epidemics of Hunger and HIV/AIDS in Africa", will showcase practical, cost-effective interventions from the public and private more...
January 11, 2006
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Highlight: 6th WTO Ministerial Conference -
Agricultural Tariffs, Subsidies, Poverty at Issue
This 6th conference will be vital for enabling the four-year-old Doha Development Agenda negotiations to move forward sufficiently to conclude the Round in 2006. For the negotiations on agriculture and non-agricultural market access, the next aim is to agree on formulas and other details that will determine the scale of reductions in tariffs, and on farm subsidies. Event held in Hong Kong, China (13-18 December 2005) .
December 14, 2005
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Bridging the Rural Digital Divide
World Summit on the Information Society (16-18 November 2005)
The information revolution has completely bypassed nearly one billion people. They are the rural poor, who constitute 75 percent of the people in the world who live on less than one dollar a day. The advent of ICTs has served only to widen the gap between them and others who do have access to such technologies. The rural digital divide is most evident when comparing the disparities between urban and rural communities, men and women and between successful farmers and their less successful neighbo more...
November 11, 2005
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World Food Day: Agriculture and Intercultural Dialogue
(16 October 2005)

The theme recalls the contribution of different cultures to world agriculture and argues that sincere intercultural dialogue is a precondition for progress against hunger and environmental degradation. World Food Day provides an opportunity at local, national and international levels to further dialogue and enhance solidarity on these and other related issues. (Logo credit, FAO)
October 5, 2005
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