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20-11-2009
The three-day UN summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome earlier this week. The host country has lamented that the high profile summit failed to produce either measurable targets or specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet.
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19-11-2009
WHO is targeting to eradicate polio from Afghanistan within next two years. Much of it will depend on how smoothly the agency is able to carry out its six-round immunisation drive.
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Image: An Afghan health worker dropping polio vaccine into the mouth of a child during a vaccination campaign in Kabul/ Photo credit: Britannica
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16-11-2009
Two new reports have concluded that it is possible to ensure food security, if right kinds of policies are pursued. These reports by FAO and International Food Policy Research Institute document many success stories across the globe.
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Image: A little bit of initiative and sound policies will ensure everyone has access to food/ Photo credit: IRIN
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13-11-2009
US President Barack Obama will try to salvage fading hopes for a deal in Copenhagen as he meets leaders of China and India later this month. The world's three most populous nations are deeply at odds over the shape of a Copenhagen deal.
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13-11-2009
Ahead of World Summit on Food Security, international companies, the Italian city of Milan's administration and UN food agency met to discuss the issue. The FAO director-general emphasised on the need for private investments in primary agriculture and other services such as storage and processing.
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Image: FAO Director General Jacques Diouf delivers a speech during the FAO private sector forum in Milan/ Photo credit: FAO
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12-11-2009
The Vulnerable Forum (V11), comprising 11 countries such as Bangladesh, Vietnam, Nepal, the Maldives and others, have pledged to work towards low carbon future. They have challenged richer countries to match their efforts.
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Image: Some countries believe climate change will increase the need for food aid/ Photo credit: AP
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12-11-2009
The Food and Agriculture Organisation yesterday called for a day-long global hunger strike ahead of next week’s World Summit on Food Security. This has been done to draw attention towards the planet’s one billion people facing starvation.
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Image: FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf/ Photo credit: UN News
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11-11-2009
The theme of the 2010 SAARC summit will be climate change. The announcement was made during the Bangladeshi prime minister’s visit to Bhutan.
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Image: Bhutanese prime minister Jigmi Y Thinley/ Photo credit: Flickr
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06-11-2009
The world's religions have a crucial role to play in the fight against global climate change, UN chief said earlier this week characterising the battle against global warming as a "moral" issue. He was co-hosting an inter-faith gathering of religious and secular leaders in London.
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Image: Buddha statues at the Jade Buddhist Temple, Shanghai, China/ Photo credit: Andy Teach/ Environment News Service
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05-11-2009
Developing countries have taken on the developed nations for diverting the process of negotiations away from UNFCCC framework and Bali Action Plan. In the ongoing Barcelona talks, the G77 and China grouping launched a counter offensive against the attempt to hoist a GHG emission reduction regime on developing countries.
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Image: Barcelona climate talks/ Photo credit: Triplepundit
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