CUBA: Food Security Focus of New UN Programmes
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Patricia Grogg
HAVANA, Oct 29 (IPS) – Three new international cooperation agreements channeled through the United Nations system in Cuba are aimed at strengthening food security, especially in the poorest parts of the country.
”Thanks to the joint work of the international community, the United Nations [...]
Q&A: Small Sugar Farmers Not so Sweet on End of Sugar Protocol
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Nasseem Ackbarally interviews SALIL ROY, sugar farmer and leader of the Planters’ Reforms Association in Mauritius
PORT LOUIS, Oct 14 (IPS) – The Sugar Protocol enabling developing world sugar farmers to produce for the European market over the past 34 years ended on Sep 30. Among [...]
ENVIRONMENT: Back to Traditional Farming to Beat Climate Change
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By Anil Netto*
PENANG, Malaysia, Oct 9 (IPS/IFEJ) – When organisers of an international conference on climate change and the food crisis first scheduled the event here for late September, little did they realise the event would be sandwiched by two typhoons buffeting the region. Ironically, [...]
AGRICULTURE: Disease Threatens Afghan Wheat Crop
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Danielle Kurtzleben
WASHINGTON, Jul 30 (IPS) – Agronomists and crop experts fear that an aggressive disease that attacks wheat crops could soon reach Afghanistan, potentially threatening food security and initiatives to curb the cultivation of illicit crops.
The Ug99 fungus, so named for its identification in Uganda in 1999, [...]
