food security

March 23, 2015
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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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March 3, 2015
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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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January 27, 2015
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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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December 19, 2014
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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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November 27, 2014
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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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November 24, 2014
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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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August 26, 2014
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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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August 25, 2014
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Caribbean Plant Health Officials Meet to Discuss Strategies to Improve Food Security, Expand Agricultural Trade, and Protect Plant Resources in the Region

Grand Cayman Island, – 1st August,2014 – During the period July 29 to August 1, 2014, representatives from more than 20 Caribbean countries and territories and several partner organizations, including the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United States Department of…
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May 28, 2014
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The region signs on to plan to manage the Flying Fish

BELIZE, MAY 24 – A historic Flying Fish Fisheries Policy has been endorsed by the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism’s (CRFM) Ministerial Council. The Sub-Regional Fishery Management Plan for the Eastern Caribbean Flying Fish Fishery was approved at the council’s just concluded eighth meeting held at the Fort Young Hotel in Roseau, Dominica. The CRFM’s Executive Director Milton Haughton says it…
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October 10, 2013
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Jagdeo Initiative high on COTED agenda

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Jagdeo Initiative is one of the key subjects that will be considered when Ministers of Agriculture gather on Friday for a Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Agriculture. The Special COTED Meeting is a staple of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) which is being held in…
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