April 18, 2009 at 11:12 am
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Treviso, Italy - Food security and efforts to stabilize global food prices were set to dominate the first-ever meeting of agriculture ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) which began Saturday. But the potentially divisive issue of protectionism was...
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April 18, 2009 at 8:29 am
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Stockholm - Police have ruled out a targeted campaign of sabotage against Swedish poultry producers or other food companies despite numerous incidents of pieces of glass found in chicken and other food. In our view this is not a coordinated attack a...
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April 17, 2009 at 4:23 pm
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Washington - In a landmark ruling Friday, US President Barack Obama's administration found that greenhouse gases threaten US air quality and public health, setting the stage for new limits on industry emissions that cause global warming. The so-calle...
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April 17, 2009 at 3:35 pm
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Oslo - Eleven mainly African countries are to be offered cheaper, more effective malaria drugs as part of a partnership between international agencies and governments, officials said Friday. Benin, Cambodia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, ...
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April 16, 2009 at 10:41 am
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Geneva - United Nations Assistant Secretary General David Nabbaro said Thursday that the best way to prevent hunger and sustainably reduce poverty was to invest in agriculture. Over the last 25 years many countries have cut back on investment in agr...
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