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 May 18, 2009, 1:02 IST World foodgrain production is anticipated to drop in 2009-10 largely due to reduced area sown with these crops by farmers in the developed countries in response to a sharp fall in international cereal prices. Some of the cereal acreage is …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi May 11, 2009, 0:29 IST Even as the prices of food items in the international market dropped sharply from their peak in 2008 in response to higher global stocks and improved export supplies, food prices in most of the developing countries have defied this trend …
Federal government is planning to get rid of a two-year ban in August, imposed by European Union on the country's seafood export, as it has decided to send to EU an action plan in mid June to invite its officials for inspection of harbour, processing units and boats in mid …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: To address concerns over the expected increase in the level of global food security owing to the financial and economic crisis that has hit the world, senior experts from the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the 30-nation Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will meet …
Felicity Lawrence Just as an unsustainable financial system caused the current banking crisis, the intensive farming of animals is at the heart of the swine flu outbreak. In modern disaster management theory, when any large system experiences a major shock or failure, you assess the risk, activate an ordered emergency …
NEW DELHI: The Food and Agriculture Organisation is mobilising its teams of experts to help ascertain if the new strain of swine influenza H1N1 virus, which has killed many people in Mexico, had a direct connection to pigs.
ACCORDING to a recent study carried out by the UN agency, Food and Agriculture Organisation, intensive cropping in some agro-ecological regions of the country is causing long term degradation of natural resources and the environment and hampering food security. As reported by national media, the use of fertilisers in low …
Moves by the United States to provide more cash instead of commodities to fight a growing world food crisis are welcomed, but more is needed, a U.N. World Food Program (WFP) official said on Tuesday. "Just because food prices have come down doesn't mean the crisis is over," said Allan …
The only way to meet the increasing demand for fish is through aquaculture. Daniel Cressey explores the challenges for fish farmers and what it means for dinner plates in 2030.
Ocean temperature is one of the primary environmental factors that determine the geographic range of a species. A paper published recently in the journal Fish and Fisheries has used computer modelling to project the global impact of climate change on biodiversity with reference to 1,000-odd fish species. The study has …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi March 9, 2009, 0:51 IST Fisheries production potential of the oceans has been fully exploited, leaving little scope for increasing marine catches any further. The growth in fisheries output in future will come largely from aquaculture (fish rearing). This will have significant implications on livelihood …
The Agenda Item of the 28th Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), on securing sustainable small-scale fisheries (SSF), dealt mainly with discussing follow-up to the Global Conference on Securing Small-scale Fisheries, held in Bangkok from 13 to 17 …
Time to rely on yield within the country by Sucha Singh Gill THE concept of food security involves availability access and affordability of food in adequate quantity and quality to meet nutritional needs. The existence of under-nourishment in the long run highlights the marked prevalence of hunger in the countries …
The number of hungry people in the world swelled by 40 million to touch the 923-million mark in 2008, chiefly due to higher food prices. More people could be pushed into hunger if the ongoing financial and economic crisis continues, a United Nations body has warned. An overwhelming majority of …
Countries are not complying with the UN Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. It's time some changes were made, say Tony Pitcher, Daniela Kalikoski, Ganapathiraju Pramod and Katherine Short.
Mercury is one of the most dangerous environmental pollutants, both in its elemental form and in chemical combination. When mercury is released into the environment it gets transformed into methyl mercury through microbial action. The methylation of mercury is a key step in the entrance of mercury into food chains. …
