Nov 19, 2009 | IN THE NEWS
This includes promotion of Australian business and financial interests as well as national security enhancement. Whilst it is a relatively smaller player in the global donor community, Australia is a leading donor agency in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Officially,...
Nov 11, 2009 | IN THE NEWS
‘For the world’s poorest people who spend up to 80 per cent of their household budgets on food, the food price crisis is not over yet,’ said Hafez Ghanem of the Food and Agriculture Organisation.Investment in agriculture in developing countries...
Nov 11, 2009 | IN THE NEWS
Australian Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Bob McMullan, said Uganda would receive another 7 billion Uganda shillings ($A4.12 million) through the Australian development assistance program next year.’Under the food security...
Oct 28, 2009 | IN THE NEWS
In August, two days before the Pacific Islands Forum, the heads of state of the 14 Pacific nations were adamant in saying that they were not ready to negotiate. But by the time the Forum meeting had ended, they had done a complete about turn and agreed to start...
Oct 21, 2009 | IN THE NEWS
The Forest Investment Program (FIP) will meet for the first time on October 29 in Washington to kickstart the program and discuss the criteria for selecting countries or regions of the world that could benefit most from the effort.Brazil, the Democratic Republic of...
Oct 14, 2009 | IN THE NEWS
MARK COLVIN: Worldwide food production will have to rise by a staggering 70per cent by the middle of this century if food riots are not to become commonplace.That’s the dire warning issued by the United Nations’ food agency which says almost 400 million...
