37th CFS Plenary Session, 17-22 October 2011, Rome
The CFS is the United Nations' forum for reviewing policies concerning world food. It is the most inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all relevant stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and nutrition.
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3 August 2011, Lomé, Togo/Rome - The European Union's (EU) investment in agricultural rehabilitation in Togo has led to benefits that are almost double their cost, according to FAO. The Organization used EU funding to help Togolese farmers cope with high food prices and climatic adversities.
Togo's rural population suffered the most from floods and sharp increases in food prices that hit the country in 2007 and 2008.
April 1, 2011— The 2008 food crisis hit poor people in Togo hard.
Floods drowned crops and the price of maize shot up 42% in a year. People ate seeds and sold their livestock to survive. Fifty thousand children under 5 were malnourished in the small West African country's hardest hit areas, many dangerously.
June 23, 2010—In Rwanda, one of the world’s most densely populated landlocked countries, farmers face an uphill battle – literally – to get the best they can from the soil.
Land in Rwanda is scarce. But the major problem confronting those who work the land is that almost 90% of arable land is on hillsides. Torrential rain on more than half of the slopes causes erosion and subsequent flooding and silting in the valleys beneath. Erosion costs the country 1.4 million tons of fertile soil each year.
Press Release No. 10/153
April 15, 2010 -- An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Marshall Mills visited Lomé during April 1–15, 2010 to conduct discussions for the fourth review of Togo’s program under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). The mission met with President Faure Gnassingbé, Prime Minister Gilbert Houngbo, Minister of Economy and Finance, Adji Ayassor, Minister of Cooperation, Development and Regional Planning, Gilbert Bawara, other members of the government, and senior officials. It also held fruitful discussions with parliamentarians, representatives of civil society, labor unions, donors, the private sector, and the press.
At the end of the mission, Mr. Mills issued the following statement:
The spike in food prices of last year (2008) underscored what experts have been telling us for many years: the world's food systems are in crisis
