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FAWCO friend Hans Herren wins Right Livelihood Award

Photo_Hans_Herren-230x300Hans R. Herren, one of the world’s leading experts on sustainable agriculture and twice keynote-speaker at FAWCO conferences, wins the Right Livelihood Award for his commitment to end hunger and poverty in our world. The president of Biovision Foundation is the first Swiss to be awarded this prize since its inception in 1980. The jury of the prize, also known as...

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Malaria Networks

In this section you will find the latest articles from FAWCO’s communications; the FAWCO FORUM and FAWCO CONNECTIONS, regarding malaria and FAWCO’s efforts in malaria prevention, as well as timely articles about malaria prevention issues.

We are pleased that FAWCO’s efforts in malaria prevention were noted by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) in their new publication; "From Vision to...
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Saving Lives – FAWCO’s Malaria Initiative - TOTAL

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Saving Lives – FAWCO’s Malaria Initiative

Focus on Malaria

$137,519.00!! That is the exciting total that FAWCO has collected in the past three years for malaria prevention and the FAWCO initiative called Networks.

How it began

At the 2005 FAWCO Conference in Birmingham, the delegates committed to take on one of the world’s great problems and unanimously agreed...

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Fund Raising for Malaria Eradication

Between 2005-2009, FAWCO actively raised funds for malaria eradication. The bulk of the money raised went to the Swiss Foundation BioVision in support of their integrated approach to malaria prevention in pilot projects in Africa. FAWCO's partnership with BioVision was enthusiastically supported by member organizations and individuals and as a result, many children will now live...

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World Malaria Day, 25th April: DDT is not the answer !

  BioVision says no to DDT The BioVision Foundation has for years been engaged in a positive campaign for malaria control using ecologically sound methods. The problem is tackled at its root in that the disease transmitters are organically controlled even in their breeding sites. The projects supported by BioVision prove that malaria mosquitoes, and thereby cases of the malaria...
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FAWCO's Contribution to Malaria Eradication

Since 2005, FAWCO has been partnering with the Swiss Foundation BioVision in support of their integrated approach to malaria prevention in pilot projects in Africa. FAWCO's partnership with BioVision has been enthusiastically supported by member organizations and individuals and as a result, many children will now live to see their 5th birthday - who only 4 years ago did not stand a...

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