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FAO DirectorGeneral Jos Graziano da SilvaFarmers and their associations and cooperatives are crucial in the effort to put farmers at the centre of the new strategy of investment in agriculture
Jomo Kwame Sundaram FAO Assistant DirectorGeneral Economic and Social Development Department Investing in agriculture is effective for reducing poverty and hunger
Stamoulis Kostas Director Agricultural and Development Economics Division of FAOWe also calculated the public expenditure requirements to eliminate hunger by 2025
Questions and answers from the press conference on the launch of SOFA 2012
Jakob Skoet FAO Senior EconomistThe most important investors are agricultural farmers themselves
World partners regional Banks ECA DFID Gates Foundations countries etc gathered in Rome this week discuss the implementation of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics and how it responds to increasing demand from policy makers and the donor community for information to deal with skyrocketing food prices and emerging issues relating to the use of biofuels the environment climate change and monitoring the MDGsInterview with Pietro Gennari FAO Director Statistics Division and Chief Statistician we want all our partners to take ownership of this global programme
The following are audio excerpts from a joint press conference held at FAO headquarters today1 Mr Michel Joseph Martelly President of Haiti
2 Mr Jos Graziano da Silva FAO DirectorGeneral
3 Mr Laurent Thomas FAO Assistant DirectorGeneral for Technical Cooperation
Professor Oswin Perera is an expert on livestock production he studied the health and the reproduction cycle of the Asian water Buffalo for over 30 years He spoke to Louise Potterton IAEA about the importance of the water buffalo and the use of nuclear science in his work More with Oswin Perera Professor of Farm Animal Production and Health at the University of Peradeniya in Kandy Sri Lanka
Louise Potterton IAEA spoke to Kenyan plant breeder Miriam Kinyua Associate Professor of Biotechnology at Moi University in Eldoret More with Professor Kinyua leader of the IAEAs Ug99 project during the IAEAs General Conference in Vienna Austria
More with Adam Yao FAO Senior Coordinator of Emergency Programmes in HaitiThe urgent need today is to get seeds for the farmers
John Preissing representante de la FAO en Per nos comente sobre los retos que tenemos para reducir los niveles del hambre en Per una tarea que ya est siendo asumida por algunas organizaciones como las cooperativas agrcolas Spanish
Lutte contre la faimBurkina Faso
The role of cooperatives in hunger and poverty eradication in Kenya