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Two French aid workers kidnapped in the Central African Republic
Two French aid workers from the NGO Triangle were kidnapped overnight from Sunday to Monday in the north-east of the Central African Republic, Mahamat Salah Amadou Birao, Bangui's vice-consul in Darfur, Sudan told AFP.
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agriculture - food aid - food safety
How to feed the world
One in six of the world’s population lives in dire hunger according to the latest figures released by the United Nations. Environment looks at the issue of food and land use to see how, if at all, hunger can be eradicated.
food safety - Pakistan
Controversy surrounds govt move to lease agricultural land to Saudi
In Pakistan where the food crisis is worsening, the government has decided to lease hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland to Saudi Arabia, which would be used to produce food for the Saudi market.
FAO - food safety - United Nations
Jacques Diouf, Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN (FAO), Director-General
Jacques Diouf FAO director-general Food production will have to increase by 70% over the next 40 years to feed the world's growing population, the United Nations food agency predicts. Jacques Diouf answers our questions.
ENVIRONMENT
This week: organic versus the ordinary
A review of 50 years of scientific studies rocks the organic world as it concludes that organic produce is no better of one’s health than conventionally produced foods.
agriculture - environment - food safety
Organic Food: not so wholesome?
A report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has provoked a stormy debate between the supporters of organic food and its critics. Is organic food really that much better for us?
AGRICULTURE
EU food authorities say genetically modified maize is safe
A genetically modified maize stain created by biotech giant Monsanto, currently banned in many European countries, was deemed as safe to humans and animals after a study by Europe's official food safety agency.
EUROPEAN UNION
Ministers fall short of banning cloned animal products
EU agriculture ministers have agreed on a set of new rules regarding "novel foods", including cloned animal products, that critics say could pave the way for the sale of so-called "Frankenfoods".
Economic crisis - food safety
Jacques Diouf, FAO director-general
Jacques Diouf, the director-general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), calls on the international community to take action to prevent a global food crisis.
ITALY
Farm ministers focus talks on food security, output
Farm ministers from the world's leading industrialised and developing nations are gathered in northeast Italy for talks on food security and ways to overcome a global food crisis that could worsen in the current economic downturn.
FOOD
Europe may have to reconsider animal food laws
Since the dioxin-contaminated chicken scandal of the '90s, European authorities have taken strict control of animal feed regulation. But breeders argue too much regulation harms innovation. Europe may have to listen to them.
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