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FAO Project GCP/SRL/059/EC - Enhancing food security among the most vulnerable farm families in eastern Sri Lanka. The overall objective of this project will be to restore and enhance agricultural production to ensure food security and improved nutrition for returning or recently resettled farming families in two districts of eastern Sri Lanka.

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SRI LANKA6 July 2010, Trincomalee - A seminar leader applying the Bordeaux mixture, consisting of copper sulphate, lime and water, to the newly severed branch afflicted with a fungal infection. The mixture mu...

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SRI LANKA7 July 2010, Amman Nagar - FAO and EU staff leading a Research Extension Forum for local farmers teaching them how to identify diseased crops. FAO Project GCP/SRL/059/EC - Enhancing food security amon...

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SRI LANKA7 July 2010, Amman Nagar - Participants in an FAO and EU staff-led Research Extension Forum examining a plant specimen for disease.FAO Project GCP/SRL/059/EC - Enhancing food security among the most v...

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SRI LANKA7 July 2010, Amman Nagar - FAO and EU staff leading a Research Extension Forum for local farmers teaching them how to identify diseased crops.FAO Project GCP/SRL/059/EC - Enhancing food security among...

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SRI LANKA7 July 2010, Amman Nagar - An FAO staff member showing an example of a diseased plant at a Research Extension Forum held teach local farmers improved agricultural practices.FAO Project GCP/SRL/059/EC...

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SRI LANKA7 July 2010, Amman Nagar - A Research Extension Forum led by Agricultural Research Officers examinng the rotten roots of a banana tree and explaining the reasons to farmers. A variety of agricultural...

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KENYA24 November 2010, Isinya - A cow belonging to a Maasai livestock owner is among two in the herd of 70 that has been vaccinated against rinderpest, as characterised by twin notches on its left ear. An...

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KENYA24 November 2010, Isinya - A Maasai livestock owner whose cattle herd has suffered from and subsequently been innoculated against rinderpest grazing his cattle in a village approximately 50 kilometres...

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KENYA23 November 2010, Nairobi - Dr Ricky Ireri, Head of Virology Division at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, speaking at the Nairobi headquarters during an interview. An ambitious global effort...

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KENYA24 November 2010, Isinya - Maasai women herding cows to a watering hole in a village approximately 50 kilometres southwest of capital Nairobi. An ambitious global effort has brought Rinderpest, a dead...

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KENYA24 November 2010, Isinya - Two Maasai livestock owners whose herds have suffered from and sebsequently been vaccinated against rinderpest in the past, watch as their cattle graze near the village of I...

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1987, Sudan - Rinderpest must be suspect whenever trade cattle are dying in large numbers. A diagnosis may be suspected if characteristic lesions appear in the mouth.

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1987, Sudan - Erosion and necrosis of the lower lip indicate that the animal possibly died of rinderpest.

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1987, Kenya - Vaccine must be potency- and safety-tested in cattle.

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1987, Ethiopia - Anti-rinderpest vaccination in the National Veterinary Institute, Debre Zeit.

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KENYA26 November 2010, Meru - Kenya Department of Veterinary Services' Peter Ithondeka explaining the unveiled statue of a buffalo at the Meru National Park where the last known outbreak of rinderpest amon...

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KENYA23 November 2010, Nairobi - A laboratory technician working at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) where a vaccine for Rinderpest, a disease aflicting cloven-hooved domestic and wild anim...

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KENYA26 November 2010, Meru - A herd of buffalo grazing at the Meru National Park where the last known outbreak of rinderpest amongst the local buffalo population was recorded almost a decade ago. Rinderpe...

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KENYA23 November 2010, Nairobi - A laboratory technician working at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) where a vaccine for Rinderpest, a disease afflicting cloven-hooved domestic and wild ani...

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KENYA26 November 2010, Meru - President of Kenya Mwai Kibaki (R) listening to Kenya Department of Veterinary Services' Peter Ithondeka (L) explain the unveiled statue of a buffalo at the Meru National Park...

Sri Lanka - Enhancing food security among the most vulnerable farm families in eastern Sri Lanka125

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