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 FAO launches The State of Food and Agriculture 2012: Investing in Agriculture - for a better future Farmers: central to any investment strategy 1 | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 647

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

 FAO launches The State of Food and Agriculture 2012: Investing in Agriculture - for a better future Farmers: central to any investment strategy 2 | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 462

Jomo Kwame Sundaram FAO Assistant DirectorGeneral Economic and Social Development Department Investing in agriculture is effective for reducing poverty and hunger

 FAO launches The State of Food and Agriculture 2012: Investing in Agriculture - for a better future Farmers: central to any investment strategy 3 | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 129

Stamoulis Kostas Director Agricultural and Development Economics Division of FAOWe also calculated the public expenditure requirements to eliminate hunger by 2025

 FAO launches The State of Food and Agriculture 2012: Investing in Agriculture - for a better future Farmers: central to any investment strategy 4 | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 1292

Questions and answers from the press conference on the launch of SOFA 2012

 Farmers: central to any investment strategy | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 133

Jakob Skoet FAO Senior EconomistThe most important investors are agricultural farmers themselves

 A partnership effort to strengthen agricultural statistics | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 281

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

 Haitian President Michel Joseph Martelly visits FAO headquarters FAO and Haiti are seeking $74 million over the next 12 months to help rehabilitate the country's agricultural sector in the wake of Hurricane Sandy 1 | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 70

The following are audio excerpts from a joint press conference held at FAO headquarters today1 Mr Michel Joseph Martelly President of Haiti

 Haitian President Michel Joseph Martelly visits FAO headquarters FAO and Haiti are seeking $74 million over the next 12 months to help rehabilitate the country's agricultural sector in the wake of Hurricane Sandy 2 | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 124

2 Mr Jos Graziano da Silva FAO DirectorGeneral

 Haitian President Michel Joseph Martelly visits FAO headquarters FAO and Haiti are seeking $74 million over the next 12 months to help rehabilitate the country's agricultural sector in the wake of Hurricane Sandy 3 | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 171

3 Mr Laurent Thomas FAO Assistant DirectorGeneral for Technical Cooperation

 Nuclear Science to improve Animal Production in Asia Food for the Future: Meeting the Challenges with Nuclear Applications | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 485

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

 Combating Wheat Stem Rust A new strain of wheat rust – known as Ug99 – is decimating African wheat fields | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 410

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 than 600 000 Haitians at risk of food and nutrition insecurity Hurricane Sandy hits an already vulnerable country | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 62

More with Adam Yao FAO Senior Coordinator of Emergency Programmes in HaitiThe urgent need today is to get seeds for the farmers

 Agricultural cooperatives-key to feeding the world AMARC joins FAO in celebrating World Food Day 2012 1 | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 880

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

 Agricultural cooperatives-key to feeding the world AMARC joins FAO in celebrating World Food Day 2012 2 | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 1324

Lutte contre la faimBurkina Faso

 Agricultural cooperatives-key to feeding the world AMARC joins FAO in celebrating World Food Day 2012 3 | File Type: audio/x-mp3 | Duration: 800

The role of cooperatives in hunger and poverty eradication in Kenya

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