food security

  • Photo of Guyana cops MDG award for reducing hunger

    Guyana cops MDG award for reducing hunger

    Guyana was bestowed an award for achieving the distinction of meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG), relating to hunger. Agriculture Minister Mr. Noel Holder was in attendance at Rome, Italy, for three specialised meetings, as well as for issues regarding Guyana’s membership of various agriculturally related organisations. The Minister also received the prestigious award for Guyana’s success in meeting the…

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  • Photo of Food safety: More than just a health threat

    Food safety: More than just a health threat

    Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 14, 2015.  Foodborne illnesses are one of the most common public health issues in the Caribbean region, and have increased by 26% since 2010.  The fact that thousands of people in the region become sick from tainted food each year demonstrates the need to further safeguard our food supply. In this regard, the Caribbean…

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  • Photo of Food security programme begins in all schools

    Food security programme begins in all schools

    As it gets ready to re-launch its food security programme to secure investment from the private sector, the Ministry of Agriculture is doing its best to ensure primary and secondary schools are also part of the process. The exercise, which commenced last week with the donation of fruit trees to several primary schools, aims is to establish a garden in…

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  • Photo of How Latin America and the Caribbean is ending hunger

    How Latin America and the Caribbean is ending hunger

    BY RAÚL BENÍTEZ —This year marks a turning point in the global fight against hunger: 2015 is the deadline that world governments set to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and the goal of the World Food Summit, which seek to halve the percentage and total number of people suffering from hunger, respectively. Beginning in 2016, the world will adopt the Sustainable Development Goals. In…

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  • Photo of Indigenous food systems should be on the development menu

    Indigenous food systems should be on the development menu

    ROME, Feb 23 2015 (IPS) – Overcoming hunger and malnutrition in the 21st century no longer means simply increasing the quantity of available food but also the quality. Despite numerous achievements in the world’s food systems, approximately 805 million people suffer from chronic hunger and roughly two billion peoples suffer from one or more micronutrient deficiencies while, at the same time,…

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  • Photo of FAO presents plan for eradicating hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean

    FAO presents plan for eradicating hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Fight against hunger and poverty on the table at the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit. 27 January 2015, San José, Costa Rica – Today FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva presented a new regional Plan for Food Security, Nutrition and Hunger Eradication by 2025 during a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) taking…

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  • Climate Change Creates New Geography of Food

    LIMA, Dec 12 2014 (IPS) – The magnitude of the climate changes brought about by global warming and the alterations in rainfall patterns are modifying the geography of food production in the tropics, warned participants at the climate summit in the Peruvian capital. That was the main concern among experts in food security taking part in the 20th session of…

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  • Photo of Responding to climate change from the grassroots up

    Responding to climate change from the grassroots up

    GUNTHORPES, Antigua, Nov 7 2014 (IPS) – As concern mounts over food security, two community groups are on a drive to mobilise average people across Antigua and Barbuda to mitigate and adapt in the wake of global climate change, which is affecting local weather patterns and by extension, agricultural production. “I want at least 10,000 people in Antigua and Barbuda…

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  • Saint Lucia’s fishermen peg hopes on common fisheries policy

    CASTRIES, Saint Lucia, Nov 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – J ohn Francis was just 17 when he began fishing more than four decades ago. But these days, the 60-year-old fisherman from Praslin, on the east coast of the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, finds it hard to make a living. “There used to be money in fishing. In the 70s,…

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  • Compromise to secure food

    In an era where food security is paramount, there has to be a compromise in how land is used in this island. Making it clear that competition will always exist between agriculture, housing and tourism for land, representative of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) in Barbados, Ena Harvey, nevertheless emphasised that citizens must get back to the…

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