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Organic Agriculture and Food Security in Africa

Can Africa Feed Itself? Oslo, Norway, 6-8 June 2007

Year of publication 2007

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 13 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Meeting

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Over the next 40 years, agriculture will have to carry out an enormous, threefold task: feeding an extra three billion mouths as global population rises from six to nine billion; feeding the 854 million human beings w ho now suffer hunger and malnutrition; supplying bioenergy feedstock to meet a growing share of the world’s power needs.

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