Sentences with phrase «food and agriculture bank»

Also on Tuesday, at the «Appetite for Action» event, Wiebe Draijer — as head of Rabobank, the world's leading food and agriculture bank — announced Kickstart Waste, a 3 - year program to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals» Target 12.3 on food loss and waste.

Rabobank, a global food and agriculture bank dedicated to building a better food future, reports key trends from FoodBytes!

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Looking further out, the UN Food & Agriculture Organization, World Bank, Group of 20 and other organizations warn that food production must rise to meet the world's ongoing population explosFood & Agriculture Organization, World Bank, Group of 20 and other organizations warn that food production must rise to meet the world's ongoing population explosfood production must rise to meet the world's ongoing population explosion.

Trucks stimulate economic activity in every sector of the American economy — including health care, fuel and transportation, waste removal, retail, food and agriculture, manufacturing, banking and finance, and many others.

The same conclusion has been reached by studies of the World Bank and Food and Agriculture Organization.

Mr. A. H. Boerma, General Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, is calling upon the world to set aside 15 % of the annual grain yield in a global food bank for emergency use to prevent starvatFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, is calling upon the world to set aside 15 % of the annual grain yield in a global food bank for emergency use to prevent starvatfood bank for emergency use to prevent starvation.

Section 32 of the Agriculture Act of 1935 authorizes the USDA to utilize fiscal year 2016 funds to purchase surplus food to benefit food banks and families in need through its nutrition assistance programs.

In a wide - ranging speech titled Why Australia must be responsible with agriculture, delivered at a business lunch today, David Farley called for the government to renegotiate indigenous land titles and pastoral leases, to establish an emergency food bank, in addition to a number of other initiatives to boost Australian food production and export to meet local and regional demands.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commiagriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European CommiAgriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Explaining the composition of the facility, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Alhaji Limuna Muniru, said the facility will provide financial support to farmers for farming, and social support by the Agricultural Development Bank under the micro credit unit and pay back later.

GCAP, which is implemented by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) with funding from the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development, seeks to amongst others ensure increased agricultural production to improve incomes of farmers.

In its efforts to fast - track food security in Nigeria, the Bank of Agriculture has liberalized its programmes for young graduates and women with a view to...

The funds came from the Bioenergy Village Juhnde Cooperative — which was formed to run the heat and energy business, bank credits — as well as a grant from the German Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection.

According to Lindsay Murray of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food's fisheries laboratory at Burnham - on - Crouch, who is leading the investigation, the surveys have found crabs across more than 100 square kilometres of the Norfolk coast and show that «the bank is part of an important crab fishery and breeding ground».

It suggests that money to support seed banks could be raised by taxing seed sales, and administered by an international body such as the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.

There have, however, been a few successes in 1994: the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species» efforts to expand its sphere of influence to forests and fisheries, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization attempts to ensure seed banks remain open to all among them.

So it is heartening that the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank see great potential for expansion throughout the Guinea Savannah Zone, an area larger than India that stretches across 25 countries from Senegal to Mozambique.

The NRC says that money to support seed banks could be raised by taxing seed sales, and administered by an international body such as the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.

Increasing concerns over agriculture and food security as well as an increasing recognition of how fast biodiversity is disappearing has prompted seed banks to ramp up their collections.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commiagriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European CommiAgriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

African Development Bank Group — The CGIAR delegation was led by Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nteranya Sanginga, and included the Director Generals of Africa - Rice, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and Africa Harvest.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the World Bank and the Davao Research Center affirm tapping coconut trees for sap as an age - old and highly sustainable practice.

«The environment has been more of an afterthought in the debate about food security» says Prof Joe Alcamo, Chief Scientist of the United Nations Environment Programme — which has produced the report together with the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Bank, the World Food Programme and Washington's World Resources Institfood security» says Prof Joe Alcamo, Chief Scientist of the United Nations Environment Programme — which has produced the report together with the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Bank, the World Food Programme and Washington's World Resources InstitFood and Agriculture Organisation, the World Bank, the World Food Programme and Washington's World Resources InstitFood Programme and Washington's World Resources Institute.

Finally, RUAF undertakes awareness - raising and advice on short food chains, more commercial forms of urban agriculture and associated value - adding enterprises by supporting studies and international expert panels, such as the Assistance to the World Bank for the Expert seminar on peri-urban horticulture and the Expert consultation on economic impact of urban agriculture at ODI.

Other GEF agencies include the World Bank, regional development banks, and United Nations agencies (such as the United Nations Environment Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization).

RUAF's past and current main funding sources include the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS), the European Union, IDRC (Canada), UN Habitat / Ministry of Environment Norway, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), CDKN (UK), the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), CARE (Netherlands), Welthungerhilfe (Germany) and various municipalities and other organisations participating in the RUAF programmes and projects.

Apart from increased food prices — which have been confirmed by both the United States Department of Agriculture and the World Bank — the RFS increased the costs of gasoline and diesel.

Late in December 2011 Edward Wageni presented a paper on the Green Belt Movement's (GBM) grassroots experiences on sustainable development, agriculture and food security in a seminar hosted under the auspices of World Bank Development Leadership programme.

The participants were largely economists from the World Bank but also in attendance were representatives from other multilateral institutions such as the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), as well as national NGOs.

For example, Oxfam notes that «women produce more than half of all the food grown worldwide, yet own only two per cent of all land and get only one per cent of lending to agriculture» — a rather glaring oversight in the World Bank's fact - findings if they really do mean business about poverty (and I bet they do).

The World Bank has been subversively spearheading the idea of climate - smart agriculture — sustainable agriculture that is a triple - win: farmers increase food security, adapt to climate change, and carbon is mitigated.

He has litigated matters on behalf of domestic and foreign corporations and other entities and individuals involved in the energy, real estate, brokerage, insurance, banking, manufacturing, retail, construction, agriculture, and food products industries.

Kaiser collaborated with Hunger Free Colorado, Care and Share Food Bank of Southern Colorado, Fresh Food Financing Fund, Veterans to Farmers, and Denver Botanic Gardens Community Supported Agriculture.

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