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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10046
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/regions

Food security at heart of discussions at Regions of World Summit

Brussels, 22/12/2009 (Agence Europe) - At the invitation of President of Senegal Abdoulaye Wade, the first Regions of the World Summit on “Agriculture, access to food, nutrition: regions in action against the food crisis” will take place in Dakar, Senegal, on 18-20 January 2010. The aim of the summit, organised in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the French Foreign Ministry, is to mobilise the world's...

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