President Obama also announced that they had formed a new alliance to focus on food security with African leaders and the private sector.
President Obama also commended these leaders for their leadership on food security and engaged the leaders in a fruitful conversation about how the United States can help Africa harness the potential of its young people and empower the next generation of African leaders.
In its 2011 Annual Global Risks Report, the WEF warned the world's economy could not withstand any further shocks to the system and identified 37 main threats to its future stability, from crippling government debt and cyber security, to unsustainable pressure on resources and food security.
The first focused on agriculture and food security, and I was able to see innovations in technology and research, which are transforming Indian farming.
As is well known now, Nadya Suleman, a 33-year-old single mother of six surviving on food stamps and Social Security disability payments, gave birth to the nation's first set of octuplets on Jan. 26, bringing her total brood to 14.
The British charity Oxfam said it was sending water engineers and food security experts on Wednesday to assess the extent of the damage.
"No, " was the emphatic answer from several refugees I spoke to who had been at the camp for more than a month and who, while bored and saddened by their plight, placed greater emphasis on the security, free food and education offered at Dadaab.
Clinton made women's rights a priority, appointing a permanent ambassador for women's issues, and she focused on development issues such as global food security, climate change and entrepreneurship programmes.
How ironic that on the subject of food production and security, the British Peer of the Realm gets it right, while the Berkeley food icon is out to lunch.
Ecosystem shifts will impact countries dependent on coastal fishing, fish-processing industries and tourism causing economic hardship as well as destabilizing food security for the 1 billion people who depend on fisheries for most of their protein diet.
The global decrease of coastal marine resources and decline in marine biodiversity will impact countries dependent on coastal fishing, fish-processing industries and tourism causing economic hardship as well as destabilising food security for the 1 billion people who depend on fisheries for most of their protein diet.
Communication is an important advocacy element of the Millennium Development Goals Fund (MDG-F) Programme on Improving Nutrition, Food Safety and Food Security for China's Most Vulnerable Women and Children.
On November 26th the two countries signed a food-security accord, a sign, perhaps, that the freeze is already ending.
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Such measures could also help ease the government's worries about the loss of food security arising from the rapid encroachment on rural land.
The aim of these efforts is to help meet the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on environmental sustainability, water supply, sanitation, food security and poverty alleviation.
The goal of such efforts is to contribute to the achievement of the Millenium Development Goals on Environmental Sustainability, Water Supply, Sanitation, Food Security and Poverty Alleviation.
Beyond the economic malaise, this year's meeting will also focus on global risks associated with climate change, food and water security.
To drive this point home, allow me to highlight the effect that biodiversity loss will have on something that is of immediate concern to everyone: food security.
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We also discussed some of the areas where our two countries are cooperating beyond the Middle East, for example Qatar has been a leader internationally around the issues of food security, and so we are partnering on those issues.
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But with another eye on the crucial general elections next year, he liberally raised public expenditure for the coming financial year (2013-14) on welfare schemes such as rural roads, employment guarantee and food security.
It brought together scientists, political leaders, academics, health specialists, representatives of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, the private sector and the media, and discussions focused on climate, ecological degradation, human well-being, planetary thresholds, food security, energy and governance.
Security Council is due to discuss the oil-for-food program on Tuesday.
When businesspeople cross borders to trade (even as they once did on the old Silk Routes), they will want plumbing supplies, fresh food, private security, etc.
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On top of that, a rising population, droughts and climbing commodity prices underscore how food security and supplies will be a major challenge in the coming decades.
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Current initiatives work to improve health and food security in Africa, to combat child labor in Haiti, to partner on a trilateral basis with Bolivia on counternarcotics cooperation, and to promote biofuels in Central America, the Caribbean, and Africa.
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The Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) has long-established links with the country including the China Bridge Project, which is aimed at tackling environmental issues like global food security as well as a collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences based on the environmental sciences.
The Alabama resumed its course on Thursday for Mombasa, its original destination, carrying food aid and an armed 18-person security detail.
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As a part of this meeting, they heard from a variety of USAID experts on the agency's key priorities in India - health, global climate change, and food security.
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The IYWC launch event will be an occasion to raise awareness on the multiple dimensions of water cooperation, such as sustainable and economic development, climate change, food security or gender.
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