NAIROBI - Apr 2/04 - IRIN -- The number of food insecure people in Tanzania is expected to drop in April from 3.5 million to 1.8 million, the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS Net), a USAID-funded activity, reported. . . . Continue or visitors click here

JOHANNESBURG - Apr 2/04 - IRIN -- The twin setbacks of insufficient funding and a government ban on genetically modified (GM) foods have put the World Food Programme's (WFP) live-saving operations in Angola at risk, forcing the agency to halve rations to beneficiaries in April and May. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BRUSSELS - Apr 5/04 - SNS -- European consumers have more trust in fresh fruits and vegetables than processed foods and are keenly interested in knowing the origins of what they eat, reveal recent surveys, . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Apr 7/04 - SNS -- Agriculture Canada is replacing the Canadian Adaptation and Rural Development (CARD) Fund with the five-year, $255-million Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food (ACAAF) Program. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Apr 8/04 - SNS -- Proposed legislation to impose security service fees on "commercial maritime transportation entities" to finance wide-ranging port security-related activities is opposed by the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) and North American Export Grain Association (NAEGA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Apr 15/04 - SNS -- USDA researchers are entering the second year of a two-year project aimed at discovering whether soy isoflavones help prevent osteoporosis, the thinning of the bones that leads to increased risk of bone fracture. . . . Continue or visitors click here

VANCOUVER - Apr 15/04 - SNS -- Labor unrest in Canada's transportation sector seems to have no end, with members of the Western division of the Canadian Merchant Service Guild (an association of Captains, Pilots, and Engineers) in a legal strike position as of midnight April 15. . . . Continue or visitors click here

AL-FASHIR - Apr 19/04 - IRIN) -- The 14-month conflict in Darfur, western Sudan, has displaced over one million people, in addition to the more than 100,000 who have fled across the border into neighbouring Chad, according to United Nations estimates. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ADDIS ABABA - Apr 19/04 - IRIN -- Widespread rains have begun falling across Ethiopia as the country emerges from a two-year drought that affected 13 million people. Humanitarian agencies said the rains, known as the Belg or short rains, would help to offset the continuing effects of the drought across the country. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Apr 21/04 - IRIN -- Some 16 million people in East and the Horn of Africa face will face food shortages this year, requiring emergency food and non-food assistance, the USAID-funded Famine Early Warning System (FEWS Net) reported on Monday. Another 7 million to 8 million were at risk of facing food shortages, it added. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Apr 23/4 - SNS -- The USDA and China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine have agreed to establish a consultative mechanism on food safety and animal and plant health issues. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Apr 23/04 - SNS -- Canadian sugar beet and triticale area will increase slightly this year if growers follow through on their planting intentions, reports Statistics Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Apr 26/04 - IRIN -- Rains that normally fall along Eritrea's eastern and coastal areas from November to February have largely failed for the fourth consecutive year, raising fears of another drought, the United Nations reports. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BRASILIA - Apr 27/04 - SNS -- European Union (EU) Farm Commissioner Franz Fischler believes developed nations should not be asked to give as much in the coming rounds of World Trade Organization (WTO) agricultural trade talks, while the developing world should move quicker to reduce its agricultural subsidies. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BRUSSELS - Apr 27/04 - SNS -- The European Union will harmonize pesticide residue tolerances for all products of plant and animal origin under a regulation adopted today by the Agriculture Council. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Apr 27/04 - SNS -- Farmers in West and Northwest Africa face an "extremely serious" threat from locusts this year, warns the FAO. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Apr 27/04 - SNS -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is seeking offers of 1,500 metric tons (MT) of textured soy protein for shipment as food aid to Jamaica. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Apr 27/04 - SNS -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is seeking offers of 200 metric tons (MT) of dehydrated potato flakes for shipment as food aid to Jamaica. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Apr 27/04 - SNS -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is seeking offers of 200 metric tons (MT) of raisins for shipment as food aid to Jamaica. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KANSAS CITY - Apr 27/04 - SNS -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is seeking offers of 150 metric tons (MT) of buckwheat groats for shipment as food aid to Jamaica. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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