Italy's Directorate of Development Cooperation is to donate €10 million through FAO to finance agricultural and rural development programmes and improve food security in 2009. The new donation, raising Italy's voluntary, extra-budgetary contributions to a total of some €60 million, confirms the country as one of FAO's leading donors. |
Sicknesses that affect farm animals are capable of undermining entire economies, with smallholders being particularly vulnerable. Zoonotic diseases like avian flu also pose human health risks.
