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World food prices slipped in September 2018, with only sugar posting a rise, the UN food agency said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s food price index, which measures monthly changes for a basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy products, meat and sugar, averaged 165.4 points last month. The figure is against a marginally revised 167.7 in August, which was previously …

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The African Development Bank and Food and Agricultural Organisation are set to raise $100m for agriculture in a bid to end hunger and malnutrition and create wealth in Nigeria and other African countries. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the AfDB said both organisations would work together in strategic alliance to raise funds to promote food security, sustainable agriculture and …

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World food prices fell 3.7 per cent in July from the month before with declines seen across all crop types, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in Rome that the drop was the sharpest monthly drop since last December. FAO’s food price index, which measures monthly changes for a basket of cereals, …

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Global demand for food and agriculture products is projected to slow “considerably” over the next decade, mainly due to weakening consumption in China, the UN food agency said Monday. Over the 10-year period beginning this year, growth in the demand for agricultural products “will slow considerably compared to the previous decade,” the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicted in …

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The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has restated its call for urgent support to Northeast Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen, which have been ravaged by years of violent conflicts. The organisation’s Directory-General, José da Silva, emphasised this at the opening of the 165th session of FAO Council in Rome on Monday, He said starvation loomed for 20 million people in …

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Farmers supported by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Northeast are looking forward to good harvest, going by the quantity and quality of crops they have gathered so far from their fields. A monitoring and evaluation officer at Community Based Agricultural and Rural Development Programme (CBARDP), the FAO implementing partner in Borno State, Salisu Bukar Mohammed Ngulde, said: “Most of …

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More than three billion people eat rice every day, the Food and Agriculture Organization has said. The Deputy Director-General of Climate and Natural Resources at FAO, Maria Semedo, said the agency was concerned about global rice production and eradicating hunger around the world. “With over three billion people across the globe eating rice every day, rice is critical to global …

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