organisation > Food and Agriculture Organisation
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UN report blames higher food prices and the ongoing world-wide economic crisis.
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At least 22,000 children die each year in agriculture-related incidents.
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Last Modified: 12 Jun 2007 18:01 GMT
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Ten years after world leaders pledged to halve the number of underfed people the number of hungry is actually on the rise, the United Nations said.
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Last Modified: 30 Oct 2006 17:46 GMT
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Sudan's Darfur region remains the most pressing humanitarian problem in the world, the Food and Agriculture Organisation says.
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Last Modified: 09 Oct 2006 16:42 GMT
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The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected among poultry in Africa for the first time, international health officials have announced.
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Last Modified: 08 Feb 2006 15:23 GMT
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A United Nations agency has warned against pre-emptive bans of poultry imports to ward off a possible bird flu outbreak, saying they are unnecessary and could be damaging to world trade.
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Last Modified: 27 Oct 2005 12:28 GMT
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The World Health Organisation has given tacit confirmation that Chinese farmers used controversial anti-viral drugs on poultry in the battle against bird flu, a practice
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Last Modified: 21 Jun 2005 19:44 GMT
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A UN agency has issued an urgent international appeal in Algiers for $83 million to curb a deadly locust plague ravaging North and West African crops.
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Last Modified: 27 Jul 2004 16:25 GMT
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Hundreds of millions of people are starving across the world and the number is set to rise, warns a new UN report.
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Last Modified: 25 Nov 2003 18:35 GMT
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