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 …
Madhura Swaminathan The poverty line that the Tendulkar Committee proposes depends on reduced calorie consumption, and fails to provide for reasonable household expenditures on schooling and health. For some years, the Government of India has been under pressure to change the norms for calculating the official poverty line. Current norms …
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: The National Assembly standing committee on Food and Agriculture has proposed some amendments to the Agriculture Pesticides Bill, 2009 in the light of certain revision in specification of pesticides by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The committee, which met …
Bloomberg SINGAPORE RICE is the only crop in Asia at risk of potential damage from El Nino as the weather phenomenon, which reduces rainfall, weakens and may spare coffee, palm oil, rubber and sugarcane output, an agricultural meteorologist said. Drier-than-normal weather has affected rice crops in Myanmar, Thailand, northern Philippines …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi December 21, 2009, 0:37 IST Even as the Copenhagen summit on global warming has concluded without finalising binding commitments to combat this challenge, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said the fisheries sector will be hugely affected by climate change, jeopardising food supply …
Gavin Wall Hunger is not only due to a lack of production; it is also a result of human-made policy choices. Efforts to reduce hunger will require a review of the way society is organised, its economic and social policies, the functioning of institutions and the allocation of resources. WITH …
Jay Naidoo Good nutrition is the nexus point where food security, public health and environmental protection meet. As world leaders in Copenhagen struggle for an ambitious deal, let us not forget that it is the future of our children that is at stake. Hurricanes, floods, heat-waves and droughts wreak havoc …
Report of the Joint Meeting of the FAO panel of experts on pesticide residues in food and the environment and the WHO core assessment group on pesticide residues held at Geneva, Switzerland from 16-25 Sep 2009.
The report first sets the context for a discussion of trade policy interventions in the context of evolving structures of production and trade, stressing the importance of the roles that the agriculture sector can play in countries at different levels of development and the fact that policy interventions will need …
The recent World Food Summit in Rome clearly failed to do its job. It did well to focus attention on the risk of food price shocks of the magnitude experienced in mid-2008, which led to civil unrest in over 30 countries. Yet it abjured its responsibility to the vision of …
United Nations: Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon observed a 24-hour fast in solidarity with a billion hungry people worldwide, his spokesperson Marie Okabe has said. Mr. Ban, who observed the fast this weekend, days ahead of the World Food Summit in Rome, will deliver a speech at the …
Rome: Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by Unicef before a three-day international summit on the problem of world hunger. The head of a UN food agency called on the world to join him in a …
He Changchui The Third World Summit on Food Security will be held next week in Rome -- from November 16 to 18 NEVER IN THE history of mankind have so many people been so hungry. Despite rapid development, modern technology and burgeoning international trade, today an estimated 1.02 billion people …
This publication provides guidance on how to implement the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (CCRF) using an ecosystem approach to fisheries and aquaculture. The CCRF is a voluntary code covering all aspects of the management and development of fisheries and is designed to ensure that they are developed …
