#national food security

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Next government expected to ensure food security

The next government of Indonesia after the upcoming July 9, 2014, presidential election is expected to ensure food ...

Indonesia Calls For International Cooperation To Fight Hunger

One out of ten people throughout the world do not sleep soundly because their stomachs are empty, and to help end that ...

Indonesia must achieve food self-sufficiency: President

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he hoped Indonesia would achieve self-sufficiency in the production of food in ...

National food security policy needed to prevent import influx

Indonesia needs national food security policy to slow down agricultural product import influx, Indonesian Agriculture ...

Agriculture Minister warns of food product cartel

Agriculture Minister Suswono has warned of food and horticultural product cartel, citing their unfairly high prices in ...

Batam coastal areas to be developed into coconut plantation

The government plans to develop Batam municipality`s coastal areas into a coconut and cassava production center to ...

Develop marine and fisheries to boost economy

Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Sharif Cicip Sutardjo has stated that Indonesia should focus on developing ...

Food Diversification Called Key to Food Security

Confronted by the challenge of food security for its population of more than 240 million people, the Government of ...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon pledges full support to Qatar for establishing the Global Dry Land

-     -- Panel of global leaders gather in Qatar National Pavilion at Rio+20 UN Conference on ...

Govt told to control food imports

The government should control food imports which tend to increase due to the growing middle-class population in ...

Minister challenges researchers to create renewable technologies

Research and Technology Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta has challenged domestic forestry researchers to make innovations ...

Restore soil fertility to increase food production

Indonesia is striving to further increase food production and other agricultural commodities to ensure the attainment ...

NGO demands consistent implementation of soil fertility restoration programs

A non-governmental organization (NGO) advocating preservation of soil fertility (PKL) has demanded that the ...

Gorontalo aspires to become world-class corn producing region

Gorontalo is preparing itself to host a World Maize Conference (WMC) in 2012 which it sees as a forum that will bring ...

Food insecurity still haunting Indonesia by otniel tamindael - (d)

Indonesia is still confronted by the challenge of food security for its 234 million population, the fourth largest in ...