Food security to be at center of Africa development agenda June 2013, Yokohama, Japan - The three heads of the Rome-based United Nations agencies today called for food security and nutrition to be placed at the centre of the international agenda for African development. Special attention should be given to supporting smallholder farmers to improve global food security and empowering rural women, addressing gender inequalities and enabling them to transform their own lives and the lives of … [Read more...]
UN food agency heads call for hunger eradication by 2025
June 4, 2013 by Team Celebration
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A Mother From Mali Dreams Of Bringing Her Family Home
March 31, 2013 by Team Celebration
After fleeing her home in Mali, Dizawahet, 23, is about to give birth to her third child at a refugee camp in Burkina Faso. That's where she was born as well during another conflict in Mali that drove her parents across the same border. Dizawahet says she's grateful for the help families like hers receive at the camp, but that what she really wants is to go home. MENTAO (BURKINA FASO) -- Dizawahet Mohamed’s life has come full circle. She was born 23 years ago in a refugee camp in Burkina … [Read more...]
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PMO & WFP supporting Honduras ~ Food Security Projects through CIDA
August 12, 2011 by Team Celebration
Food security projects in Honduras August 12, 2011 San Pedro Sula, Honduras On August 12, 2011, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced support for the following food security projects in Honduras: the World Food Programme Honduras Country Program, the World Food Programme School Feeding, the Food and Agriculture Organization Special Program for Food Security, the Agriculture Value Chain Initiative, as well as the Promoting Food Security in the Choluteca and Rio Negro and … [Read more...]
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