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 …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi July 27, 2009, 0:18 IST A United Nations agency has cautioned that the population of hungry people in the world will reach an all-time high in 2009, largely because of the ongoing global economic crisis. The latest estimates of global hunger, released by the UN …
United Nations Thursday mentioned to heavy losses to agriculture and crops following the operation in troubled areas of North West Frontier Province, to flush out extremists. During a news briefing the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) representative stated that massive losses were inflicted due to damage …
With obesity rising across the developed world, you'd think the revelation that food labels get their calorie content wrong would lead to an outcry and calls for a change. Well, you would be wrong. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) looked at the issue a few years ago and …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi July 05, 2009, 0:01 IST The agriculture sector has shown more resilience to the global economic crisis than other industries, largely due to food being a basic necessity. As the downturn lowers food prices, pressure is eased on the recession-hit consumers. This has been stated …
MULUALEM TEGEGN bought a donkey last year. As a hard-working Ethiopian farmer, aged 58, he saw the purchase of the beast as a return to better times after several seasons in which drought and high prices had forced him to sell his livestock and take his grandchildren out of school …
Funds are increasingly looking to invest in farmland as a rising global population and changing diets lead to growing demand for food crops. But the emergence of the asset class is not without pitfalls with the provision of food always highly political and a tentative global economic recovery potentially threatened …
In this background paper, FAO calls for bolds action to address food security crisis. Explains the causes underlying today's food security crisis, the scope of the problem, the prospects for the longer term
European Union (EU) and World Food Programme (WFP) would give assistance of 24.7 million Euro and 14 million Euro respectively for progress of Agriculture sector in Pakistan. Federal food and Agriculture Minister, Nazar Muhammad Gondal, said that Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a reliable partner in progress and its …
New Delhi: The number of hungry people in the world may cross one billion in 2009 due to the shocks of the global economic crisis combined with high food prices in a few countries, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said.
The global economic crisis will help push 100 million people into poverty this year through lost jobs and lower earnings, leaving one sixth of the world
Monsanto and Germany-based BASF have discovered a naturally-occurring gene that can help corn plants combat drought and confer yield stability during periods of inadequate water supplies. The scientists of both companies announced the discovery in Germany on Tuesday. The companies stated they would use the gene in their first-generation, drought-tolerant, …
ROME: A bumper cereal crop had stabilised the world food supply, but food prices remained high in many developing countries, said the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a report on Thursday. Easing of market conditions was reflected in the benchmark FAO Food Price Index, which had fallen …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: With the second-highest global cereals crop expected this year and stocks replenished, the world food supply appeared less vulnerable to [external] shocks than it was during last year
Traditional farming, fishing, pastoralism/herding, foraging and forestry are based on longestablished knowledge and practices that help to ensure food and agricultural diversity, valuable landscape and seascape features, livelihoods and food security. However, traditional livelihoods and indigenous plant varieties, landraces and animal breeds are now increasingly endangered by large-scale commercialization of …
Food Outlook provides information on latest developments in agricultural markets and sets the global and regional commodity production, utilization, trade and price context for food security.
The objectives of this treaty are the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of their use, in harmony with the Convention on Biological Diversity, for sustainable agriculture and food security. These objectives will …
By Jose Graziano da Silva,IPS UN Food and Agricultural Organisation is calling for a new World Food Summit for 2009. Though the world economic outlook continues to look grim, it is worth asking what the world will be like when we exit this crisis. We have to identify the forces …
