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Agricultural Markets and Sustainable Development: Global value chains, smallholder farmers and digital innovations

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 …

FAO and partners call for a global response to deadly banana disease

FAO and its partners say that a global effort is needed to prevent the rapid spread of the deadly Fusarium wilt disease in bananas, which poses a severe threat to economic welfare and food security in developing countries. Plant scientists have been warning for several years that the world's most …

FAO sets wheels in motion to help launch 2015 world forum on access to land

2nd meeting of the organizing committee on access to land calls for civil society organizations and governmental institutions to mobilize and launch global debate on land tenure and investment agreements The International Organizing Committee of the World Forum on Access to Land and Natural Resources (WFAL) held its second meeting …

Improving nutrition is a collective business

19 November 2014, Rome - Governments need to lead the way against hunger and malnutrition, but this effort must be collective and involve parliamentarians, civil society and the private sector, according to FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva. Speaking at a private sector pre-event on the eve of the …

UN Launches 'Pocketbook' On Nutrition Ahead of Major Conference in Rome

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has today published a comprehensive pocketbook of nutrition-related data covering all regions of the world ahead of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) taking place in Rome this week. Food and Nutrition in Numbers- a pocket-seized compendium dedicated to the state …

West Africa: Ebola Hits West Africa Food Security

West Africa's Ebola outbreak, which has been disrupting agricultural and market activities, threatens to erode food security and negatively affect the livelihoods of millions of already vulnerable people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone unless more is done to meet their immediate food and nutritional needs, say aid agencies. They …

China to donate $50m to FAO

ROME - Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here Wednesday that his country will donate 50 million US dollars in the next five years to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Li announced the decision in a speech at the FAO headquarters in Rome during a visit to the …

Livestock Can Help Reduce the Impact of Climate Change

Some 1.7 billion people worldwide depend on livestock for a living, among which a billion are poor. In Namibia, more than 70 percent of its 2.2 million inhabitants are directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture, especially livestock farming. A large proportion of poor livestock keepers are highly exposed to climate …

Aid groups cheer food price fall to 4-year low, 'hunger hotspots' remain

World food prices have hit a four-year low, a UN agency reported on Thursday, with record harvests breathing new hope into the fight against hunger, though some "hunger hotspots" remain. Global wheat production is forecast to reach a record high in 2014, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in …

Ebola - FAO Launches New Initiative to Tackle Growing Food Security Threat

FAO today launched a new programme to urgently assist 90 000 vulnerable households in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone whose food supplies and livelihoods are threatened by the disruptive effect the Ebola epidemic is having on rural economies, agricultural activities and markets. The Regional Response Programme for West Africa will …

World hunger easing but 1 in 9 people undernourished - food agencies

The number of hungry people in the world has fallen sharply over the past decade but 805 million, or one in nine of the global population, still do not have enough to eat, three U.N. food and agriculture agencies said on Tuesday. The number of chronically undernourished people dropped by …

Wars in W Asia threaten world's food security

Genes From Wild Plants In Region Vital For Crops Millions of people could in future face starvation as an indirect result of the violent turmoil in the Middle East, which has the highest concentration of wild crop plants needed to produce new food varieties, scientists said. Civil wars raging in …

It's an alien invasion on Wayanad forests

The Wayanad wildlife sanctuary, the second largest in the state and part of one of the most important tiger landscapes, is facing a `Latin American' invasion these days. A rapidly proliferating invasive tree species ­ Senna spectabilis ­ introduced, arguably , as part of social forestry activities some 15 years …

China adopts stricter pesticide residue standard

A stricter standard on pesticide residue for farm produce in China will take effect on Friday. The new standard includes 3,650 indices detailing the maximum allowable residue for 387 pesticides on 284 types of food, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Health and Family Planning Commission, which …

U.N. warns of alarming malnutrition rates in Somali capital

The United Nations has reported alarming rates of malnutrition in the Somali capital where aid agencies cannot meet the needs of 350,000 people due to insufficient funds, drought and conflict. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the Somali government had compared the situation to the …

Expert consensus document: The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probiotic

An expert panel was convened in October 2013 by the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) to discuss the field of probiotics. It is now 13 years since the definition of probiotics and 12 years after guidelines were published for regulators, scientists and industry by the Food and …

Which 7 countries are most committed to ending hunger?

In a recently published index, researchers analysed the political commitment to hunger and nutrition of 45 developing countries Some of the world's poorest countries are taking significant strides in addressing undernutrition and hunger, according to new evidence from the hunger and nutrition commitment index (Hanci) 2013. Burundi and Liberia are …

Illegal Logging in East Africa Faces Crackdown Backed by Interpol

Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have agreed to work together along with INTERPOL, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Development Program, the UN Environment Program and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to curb illegal logging and timber trade that is stripping the East African region of some …

Tk 58cr master plan for agri-dev in coastal areas

Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury on Sunday told parliament (Jatiya Sangsad) the government, with assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), has formulated a mega plan for overall agricultural development of the country’s coastal areas. “The mega plan titled ‘Master Plan for Agricultural Development in the Southern Region of Bangladesh’ …

Rain shortage can be weathered, says study

Morgan Stanley says forecasts so far don't point to severe outcomes; however, FAO says big problem if shortage prolonged; both agree on need to track spread and amount With the deficiency of rainfall due to the El Niño occurrence forecast at seven per cent this monsoon season, its impact on …

Malnutrition kills over 3m toddlers a year: UN

ROME: More than three million children under the age of five die annually of malnutrition, the UN food agency and World Health Organisation said on Thursday, urging governments to tackle the problem. “Malnutrition is responsible for about half of all child deaths under five years of age, causing over three …

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