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Rome.– Funding from an Islamic bank will help develop agriculture in poor countries, a U.N. food agency said ahead of a summit to discuss the so-far elusive goal of reducing the number of hungry people in the world.
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, which hosted a three-day summit, said it had reached a deal with the Islamic Development Bank for $1 billion in funding to help develop agriculture in poor countries that belong to both organizations.
"This agreement comes at a critical moment, when the international community recognizes it has neglected agriculture for many years,'' the Rome-based agency said Nov. 15. "Today, sustained investment in agriculture –especially small-holder agriculture– is acknowledged as the key to food security.''
Organizers of the gathering, to be attended by some 60 heads of state, agriculture ministers and other officials, hope to wean national policies away from long-standing emphasis on food aid and instead generate support for a new approach: help farmers, livestock herders and fishermen to produce enough food for their own people.
U.N. officials pointed to villages in Kenya, Pakistan and Haiti to show this is possible. The last summit in June 2008 concentrated on how climate change and soaring food prices were undermining food security.
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My question is: Why this site never puts pictures of lighter skinned famished impoverished people on here? I am sure there are other third-world impoverish nations in the world beside Haiti and poor nations in Africa.
For example: Other than Haiti, there are other places in Latin-Americas or this hemisphere that are poor as well and here they are in order. We have Nicaragua, Bolivia, Cuba, Peru, Honduras, Dominican Republic where their skin tones or hues are not necessarily black. Why I never see their pictures for poverty?
So granted of what you said, but as you and I know, those nations I just named here above are not in Africa. So why I never see their images for poverty association? Because...
Other than Haiti, there are other places in Central - Caribbean - Latin-Americas or this hemisphere as a whole that are poor as well and here they are in order. We have Nicaragua, Bolivia, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Peru and Chile where their skin tones or hues are not necessarily black in definition by most. Why I never see their pictures being used for poverty, hunger or other worldly ills?
I did not even mention other developing nations that are not as third-world and impoverished where those same ills exist such as in South East and South West Asia or even Far East Asia thus places like India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, China among others in that hemisphere of the world where those ills are almost just as rampant .
Que conste que no tiene nada que ver con la raza ya que un blanco con cultura Africana es igual de atrasado que un negro criado como tal mientras un negro criado firmemente en la cultura occidental tiene las mismas posibilidades de tener exito que cualquiera.
Las imagenes reflejan la verdad y solo Afro y parecidos no acceptan esta triste realidad.
People in developed nations can also help in not purchasing food and reducing waste.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_new....land/bristol/somerset/8384124.stm
In the DR I have observed there is much food waste and this contributes towards poverty. Good food goes to dogs or worse when it could be made into pig swill.
In developing countries it is common to see dogs scavenging in bins full of assorted waste including food. If packaging were removed from food products and recycled properly very little landfill would be needed and pigs produce good organic fertilizer. Solar pig swill boilers would be needed.
http://www.country-enterprise.co.uk/pigs3b.htm
Further information:
http://www.fao.org/ag/AGa/AGAP/FRG/APH132/chap7.htm
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