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SIANI News
3 May 2013
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their...
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Associated News
11 May 2013
NEW YORK, USA – The United Nations Committee on World Food Security, or CFS, held a briefing at UN headquarters yesterday for the Economic and Social...
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Associated News
11 May 2013
THE world’s worrisome decline in biodiversity is well known. Some experts say we are well on our way toward the sixth great extinction and that by...
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Associated News
9 May 2013
Despite participatory design of programs, we still make the wrong assumptions about what farmers want. Even after supporting over 50 projects and...
Associated News
8 May 2013
As the discussion on farm size continues to grow from Stephen Carr’s blog post: “African Agriculture: Does farm size really matter?”, Carr...
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Associated News
3 May 2013
Professor Abayomi Oloruntoba, Professor of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, has said Africa has lagged behind in harnessing the...