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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9954

4 August 2009
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/food safety
€34 million in food facility to help WFP assist small farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Brussels, 03/08/2009 (Agence Europe) - Small farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America will receive a boost to their productivity and yields thanks to World Food Programme (WFP) projects receiving €34 million in funding under the European Union's Food Facility (an envelope of €1bn for 2010-11).

In a press release published on 3 August, the Director of the WFP's Liaison Office in Brussels, Gemmo Lodesani, was delighted to announce that, “the European Union has recognised that one of...

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