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Italy gives S Leone 10 million dlrs to boost food production |
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
 Italy has extended 10 million dollars (seven million euros) to help boost
food production over the next three years in Sierra Leone, the African country's
Agriculture Minister Sam Sesay said on Monday.
The deal will help "significantly contribute to food security through support
for a modern competitive and commercially vibrant agriculture sector," Sesay
told AFP.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will provide the technical
back-up to the scheme.
Other states set to benefit from similar Italian-backed projects in the
region include Mali, Senegal, Liberia and Guinea-Bissau, according to the
Italian fund's representative in Freetown, Arturo Rollo.
Battling to re-build six years after a brutal civil war, Sierra Leone is
ranked the least developed country in the world under the UN Human Development
Index.
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