Month: April 2012

lima, 4 Apr (EFE).-the United Nations food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) promotes Peru a security law food that dowry of continuity to its programmes in the country, said today his director-general, José Graziano da Silva. After meeting in Lima with Peruvian President, Ollanta Humala, Graziano said in a press conference that “FAO is collaborating with Peru in drafting a law on food security and the Constitution of a parliamentary front that can articulate and push this law”. According to the director of the FAO, the rule will enable programmes of food assistance, such as the of school canteens in Peru, State programs and continue when there is change of Government. Graziano indicated that FAO is working in Peru in a series of assistance programmes to fishing, the producer organisations in the jungle and in the recovery of traditional products. Also commented that this agency “is trying to incorporate the Peruvian diet a recipe of indigenous products and culinary traditional”. Graziano met with the head of State and the Minister of agriculture, Luis Ginocchio, in the Government Palace. During his visit to Lima is scheduled to sign an agreement of cooperation between FAO and the world food programme, which seeks to increase the agricultural production with the improvement of native seeds and the promotion of small producers....

Caracas, 4 Apr (EFE).-the Venezuela President, Hugo Chavez, and his former colleague Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, both affected by cancer ailments, they believe that 2012 stands out already as “a great year”, as agreed in a phone call. The conversation was revealed today by the Venezuela Foreign Ministry claimed in a statement that it occurred yesterday. Chávez received the call of Lula in Cuba, where he has been operated on three occasions in the past ten months and first received chemotherapy treatment and now another of radiotherapy, due to cancer in the pelvic area. Lula, in turn, recently saw disappearing the tumor in the larynx which was found last year. Both, he added the Venezuelan statement, discussed at length “the advances that are taking in their respective processes of restitution of health” and in the case of the treatment of the Venezuelan leader, he said that “it goes very well, as well as the political and economic situation of Venezuela”. “Partner Lula promised that as soon as his doctors determined will travel to Caracas to analyse together the regional political situation and to take stock of the intense experience developed between the two countries which President Chavez expressed his immense joy the good news on the recovery of the health of his good friend”, added the note....