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  • Ecological farms: the only real way to feed an increasingly hungry world 24 Nov 2009 01:25 GMT
    ... There are those who would like us to ... population. Disinformation comes daily from powerful industrial agricultural companies whose profits depend entirely on the ... chemical dependencies. The 2008 World Bank and United Nations International Assessment on Knowledge, Science and Technology ...

  • UN concerned at how Tamils confined to government camps are being returned home 24 Nov 2009 01:20 GMT
    ... UN concerned at how Tamils confined to government ... civil war "good news" but said the United Nations is concerned about how they are being ... largest camp in the north at Manik Farm as well as several areas where Tamils ...

  • Leaders of Iran and Brazil call for UN reform 24 Nov 2009 02:31 GMT
    ... Leaders of Iran and Brazil call for UN reform Published: November 24 2009 02:00 | ... a joint call for reform of the United Nations at the start of a controversial visit ... retaliate against US subsidies to its cotton farmers after the World Trade Organisation this month ...

  • UN & Palestinian access to Israeli-occupied W Bank 24 Nov 2009 02:33 GMT
    ... Palestinian access to Israeli-occupied West Bank land, UN reports 23 November 2009 – Israel continued ... use and development, according to a new United Nations report released today. “The easing of Palestinian ... main centres, a significant part of the agricultural and grazing land, and is critical for ...

  • UN official & releases of Sri Lanka IDPs from camps 24 Nov 2009 02:33 GMT
    ... Sri Lanka: top UN official welcomes recent releases of displaced from ... camps 23 November 2009 – The top United Nations humanitarian official, who just returned from a ... Sri Lanka. “When I was in Menik Farm [the largest IDP camp] at the end ...

  • Agriculture Ministry, FAO Sign Agreement on Planning for Forest Sustainable Development 24 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform signed on Sunday a ... on Sunday a cooperation agreement with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)on building capacities for planning for ...

  • Manmohan pushes for more un... 24 Nov 2009 03:47 GMT
    ... Washington, November 24: A day before India and the ... by enhancing cooperation in areas ranging from agriculture and education to science and technology, green ...

  • CWS tells Food Summit, 'Spend already promised funds on child malnutrition' 24 Nov 2009 03:41 GMT
    ... CWS tells Food Summit, 'Spend already promised funds ... they're addressing longer term solutions like sustainable agriculture." The alternative, says Bloem, CWS Deputy Director, ... malnutrition and disease." At the Rome Summit United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that of the ...

  • How to feed the world 24 Nov 2009 01:28 GMT
    ... IN 1974 Henry Kissinger, then America's secretary of ... years later, in the week of another United Nations food summit in Rome, 1 billion people ... soon get worse. None of the underlying agricultural problems which produced a spike in food ...

  • UNIFIL 'not notified' on reported Ghajar withdrawal 24 Nov 2009 00:11 GMT
    ... BEIRUT: The United Nations interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on ... marks the latest security flare-up across the UN-demarcated Blue Line – the boundary of Israeli ... still under Israeli occupation including the Shebaa Farms and part of the village of Ghajar,” ...

  • U.S. pledges $38.7 mln to Afghan poppy free provinces 24 Nov 2009 00:42 GMT
    ... In efforts to eradicate poppy in the post-Taliban ... Afghan minister said that survey conducted by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) has ... ministry has used GPI funds to provide agriculture machinery for farmers associations, rebuilding irrigation systems, ...

  • 'All Our Children'-- Church World Service sharpens focus on next generation 24 Nov 2009 03:41 GMT
    ... healthy baby, who is benefiting from a CWS-UN World Food Programme Maternal and Child Health ... its children," said McCullough, "but to cite United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at this week's ... not immune," he said. "The Department of Agriculture has just reported there are now 16.7 ...

  • War deprives Yemeni elite of choicest chew 24 Nov 2009 01:35 GMT
    ... afternoon's worth of the stimulant leaves can run anywhere between two and 100 dollars depending ... sum in a country ranked by the United Nations as 138th in the world for human ... not difficult to understand. According to the agriculture ministry, qat, which can produce four harvests ...

  • Coal industry get more concessions 24 Nov 2009 03:55 GMT
    ... party room meeting had been expected to run until 2pm (AEDT), but could now be ... in Canberra, to reveal the new plan. Agricultural emissions will be excluded from the scheme ... far from over and said the upcoming United Nations summit in Copenhagen was vital. Senator Wong ...

  • How to Get OUT of Afghanistan 24 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
    ... a campaign against the Taliban in the Pashtun areas of Swat and both Waziristans. Why ... aid efforts, with great fanfare. Through the United Nations family of organizations, the World Bank or ... projects. Such ventures as the building of farm-to-market roads, the opening of clinics, a program ...


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