The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020 (SOCO 2020) aims to discuss policies and mechanisms that promote sustainable outcomes – economic, social and environmental – in agricultural and food markets, both global and domestic. The analysis is organized along the trends and challenges that lie at the heart of global …
Ugandan forestry activist Gertrude Kabusimbi was awarded in recognition of her efforts to promote the conservation and sustainable use of her country's forest resources. The awards was established in 2012 by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, which is chaired by FAO. It honours the memory of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan …
A new, definitive U.N. report on the world’s forests finds that the rate of deforestation is slowing down — but that its global toll has been immense in the last 25 years. During that period, says the Food and Agriculture Organization’s 2015 Global Forest Resources Assessment, the world’s forested area …
The removal of the world's tree cover remains a concern but deforestation rates are slowing, says the UN report The world's forests face a "decisive year" as nations prepare to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals and gather for key climate talks. In a UN report on forests, senior official Jose …
The 14th World Forestry Congress (WFC) opened Monday in Durban. The week-long conference is a platform for over 3,000 delegates from governments, the private sector, foresters, academics and the civil society to shape the policy agenda on sustainable development and the future of forests and forestry. The Congress is an …
Cameroon and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations have reinforced bilateral ties by signing two agreements on Friday September 4, 2015 in Yaounde. The first accord signed between Cameroon's Minister of External Relations, Pierre Moukoko Mbonjo and the FAO Director General, José Graziano da Silva, was …
The Ministry of Agro Industry and Food Security and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) signed on 3 September 2015, in Port Louis a Technical Cooperation Project (TCP) on support for the development of Organic farming and institutional capacity building in Mauritius. Under the TCP, the FAO will assist Mauritius …
The area of land covered by forest and trees is an important indicator of environmental condition. This study presents and analyses results from the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 (FRA 2015) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. FRA 2015 was based on responses to surveys by …
The world has lost forests the size of South Africa over the past 25 years, a decline of more than 3 percent, although the rate of forest loss has significantly slowed, a report by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Monday. A growing global population and increased …
Cameroon and FAO today signed two agreements: one creating a $20 million, five-year Partnership Programme aimed at promoting agricultural development in the Central African nation, the other establishing an expanded Partnership and Liaison office here in the capital. The agreements were signed by Pierre Moukoko Mbonjo Cameroon's Minister of External …
The number of acutely and severely malnourished children in Somalia is likely to increase to 343,400 and 63,400 respectively through the end of the year, a UN-backed food security assessment says. Widespread acute malnutrition persists across Somalia and large numbers of people will be acutely food insecure through December, according …
The number of Somalis in hunger has risen in the past six months, the United Nations said on Monday, predicting a further spike as the Horn of Africa nation braces itself for the worst flooding in decades. Following a poor cereal harvest caused by an early end to the rainy …
FAO and the Swedish-based development cooperation organization We Effect have agreed to work together to strengthen small-scale forest and farm producers' organizations in developing countries so they can access land and markets and improve the livelihoods of their members. A partnership agreement signed today will initially involve eight countries: Bolivia, …
Nairobi/Washington — Widespread acute malnutrition persists across Somalia and large numbers of people will be acutely food insecure through December 2015, following below average cereal harvests in crop dependent areas; poor rainfall in some pastoral and agropastoral areas; trade disruption in some southern urban areas due to insurgent activities; and …
Today, the Republic of Kenya and the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) signed an agreement to finance the Kenya Cereal Enhancement Programme - Climate-Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Window (KCEP-CRAL). Ten thousand smallholder farmers, including women-headed households and young people whose livelihoods depend on maize, sorghum, millet and associated …
Severe and prolonged drought is threatening Central America's so-called dry corridor with critical food shortages for the second year in a row. The region, which is known for its lack of rain, has been particularly hard hit since last year by the El Nino weather phenomenon, which forecasts say could …
Gambians are gearing up for a grand celebration of the prestigious award presented to the country by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations on June 9 2015, in Rome, Italy, during the 39th Session of its conference. The Gambia received such award twice between November 2014 …
A new open-access data portal to be developed by FAO will use satellite imagery to help water-scarce countries in the Near East and North Africa better manage this precious resource. Currently all countries in North Africa and the Near East suffer from severe water scarcity, with significant consequences for irrigated …
Central American and Caribbean governments on Thursday issued an official alert as severe drought in the region damages the crops of some 1.6 million people. As part of the step, governments from the farming-dependent region pledged to help afflicted families and coordinate international relief efforts to deal with the drought, …
Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) is looking for $ 310,000 (approx.Rwf217 million) to prepare, within 18 months, the National Appropriate Mitigations Actions (NAMA) project, dubbed "Sustainable Fertilisers Production and Use". The project, presented during a continental workshop on NAMAs in Kigali on Monday, was submitted to Food and Agriculture Organisation …
Addis Ababa — Partner countries and regional bodies will receive support to develop stronger policies in these crucial sectors The European Union and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have launched a new partnership agreement to boost food and nutrition security, sustainable agriculture and resilience in at least 35 …
