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VERSAILLES, France, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Rinderpest, a disease that decimated cattle herds for centuries, will officially be history this coming June, a United Nations official said Monday in New York.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Near East governments need to spend more on agricultural production to ease dependency on imports, a U.N. official said in Sudan.
UNITED NATIONS, July 8 (UPI) -- Greater agricultural investment is vital to combating hunger in the Asia-Pacific region, a United Nations food official said.
MANILA, Philippines, July 8 (UPI) -- More could be done to address growing food insecurity in the Asia-Pacific region but trends are reversing, U.N. officials told delegates in the Philippines.
ROME, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The three-day United Nations summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome Thursday with its host lamenting that the meeting failed to reach its goal.
ROME, June 19 (UPI) -- The world's sluggish economy and rising food prices mean more than 1 billion people will go hungry every day this year, the United Nations said Friday.
UNITED NATIONS, April 12 (UPI) -- A powerful fungus that can destroy entire wheat fields has spread from East Africa to Yemen, the United Nations warned.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The U.N. said Thursday that global aid is urgent to help counties with bird flu cases share data to respond to the growing threat.
ROME, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- U.N. food specialists say agricultural production has lost about three-quarters of its genetic diversity in the past century.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- International health and food safety agencies have appealed for funds to stop the spread of the bird flu in Asia that has eight confirmed deaths.
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