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For the week of 3 – 8 June 2013
Wednesday 5 June – Press release announcing Italy’s voluntary contribution to FAO development
and emergency initiatives for 2013 at the close of the two-day FAO/Italy Annual Review Meeting. Wednesday 5 June – FAO report on
Smallholder Integration in Changing Food Markets to be released. The report says policymakers need to recognize the broad diversity of ‘smallholder farmers’, while linking them to constantly evolving markets, to be able to feed more people.
Thursday 6 June – Launch of the
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2013-2022 in Beijing by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva. Thursday 6 June – The FAO Food Price Index, which is a measure of the monthly change in international
prices of a basket of food commodities, is published today (no press release). It can be consulted at:
http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/wfs-home/en/ Friday 7 June
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Press release on the status of the H7N9 virus. Despite drop in the number of reported human and animal cases, FAO urges governments to keep up their monitoring and surviallance efforts. Saturday 8 June – Director-General José Graziano da Silva will attend the “Nutrition for Growth”
meeting in London convened by the UK and Brazilian governments within the framework of the G8.
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