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 …
Africa: Blended Finance Initiatives to Facilitate $100 Billion in Support of Sustainable Development Goals Ensuring sustainability from 'farm to fork' is a measure that enhances food security as it enables the provision of nutritious foods produced without degrading the environment. The issue of sustainability is paramount as the world grapples …
185 Nations To Adopt Stern Norms Countries al over the world have come to gether to revise internation al standards for food safety and quality , even as concerns have grown in India in the past two months after the food regulator cracked down on major brands including Maggi, Top …
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Climate Change and United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have agreed at a meeting to work together to address climates risks to the agriculture sector, issues of escalating food insecurity and mal-nutrition in the country and increase the forest area in the country. “Pakistan’s agriculture …
A UN report has projected steady decline in prices of foodgrains over the next decade, attributing the gradual price fall to increase in overall agricultural production and diversification of dietary choices towards meat and dairy products. The report, released last week, however, emphasized that prices of foodgrains would not fall …
West Africa has unprecedented opportunities for agricultural growth, a new report by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) shows. The report, "Agricultural Growth in West Africa: Market and Policy Drivers" (AGWA), comes …
Climate change could spark catastrophic food shortages and lead to global societal collapse if society continues on its current course, according to a new scientific model. The model, developed by Anglia Ruskin University's Global Sustainability Institute, which does not take account of policy shifting in reaction to events and crises, …
Ghana has received an award from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for reducing the number of undernourished people from more than seven million in the early 1990s to less than a million now. The country was also adjudged as one of 12 among 72 that have maintained their hunger …
North Korea faces further food shortages as production in the country's main growing region is expected to be cut in half, the United Nations food agency said. U.N. representatives visited the country's breadbasket in North Hwanghae and South Hwanghae provinces on June 10 and found that potato, wheat and barley …
A new book was published Thursday by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on what climate change implies for global food security and trade, the deputy UN spokesman, Farhan Haq, told reporters here. The book entitled "Climate Change and Food Systems" collects the findings of a group of scientists and …
Escalating violence in Yemen has pushed half of the population into hunger and the situation is likely to deteriorate further, the United Nations said as it called for a blockade on imports of fuel, food and medicine to be lifted immediately. Since fighting intensified at the end of March, the …
Wild bees provide crop pollination services worth more than $3,250 per hectare per year, a study reported on Tuesday. Their value to the food system is “in the billions, globally,” its authors wrote in the journal Nature Communications. Over three years, researchers followed the activities of nearly 74,000 bees from …
Much of the Middle East and North Africa is set for acute water shortages and the region must do more to conserve water while expanding a series of pilot program including solar-powered water pumps, scientists and officials said on Tuesday. "The situation is critical," Essam Khalifa, a senior official from …
Gaborone — The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has partnered with Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) in an effort to raise awareness on issues of imports and exports. This was revealed during the launching of the initiative funded to the tune of US$218 000. The bio-security project is aimed at developing …
PRIME Minister Voreqe Bainimarama was presented the Achievement Award by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for the Fijian Government's commitment towards addressing world hunger and food production. Presented in Rome at the FAO's 39th Conference, the award also recognised the great effort made by countries to commit to one …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is seeking support from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for an effective implementation of the ‘Zero Hunger and Family Farming Programme’ to start school feeding projects in 45 most food insecure districts. The programme intends to reach 61 million people across Pakistan, and with a budget of …
The prices of major food commodities continued their downward trajectory through May as cereal prices dropped amid an increasingly favourable forecast for this year's harvests, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) confirmed today. According to the UN agency's monthly Food Price Index, the May 2015 forecast for the …
Improved agricultural productivity, especially by small and family farmers, leads to important gains in hunger and poverty reduction. High performers on that front in Africa met the MDG hunger target while those that made slower progress did not REUTERS The number of hungry people in the world has dropped to …
Six Caribbean countries have attained the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on hunger and feature promising indicators with regards to food security and nutrition, according to a report released here on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report titled “Panorama of Food Insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean 2015,” …
The number of people facing food shortages is projected to hit 4.6 million by July At least 40% of South Sudan’s population will face severe food shortage over the next couple of months as the latest escalation in a bloody civil war disrupts farming and aid deliveries, a top aid …
A new picture book aims to help show the nearly 100 million children who labour on farms how best to handle the toxic pesticides many are exposed to in their work. The book, launched on Wednesday by two U.N. agencies, comes in four languages. The easy-to-follow pictures are adapted for …
