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 …
This paper considers the complementary aims of meeting the increasing demand for food and other agricultural products and of maintaining the natural resource base for future generations. Within the context of FAO
Economic slowdown may hit potato farming in developing countries THE Food and Agriculture Organization (fao) has warned that the booming potato production in developing countries may receive a setback due to global economic slowdown. In its year-end review titled
Date: 28-Jan-09 Country: SPAIN Author: Martin Roberts MADRID - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday said rich nations had to do more to prevent the economic crisis from adding to an already intolerable 1 billion people going hungry in the world. Food prices had come down for the time being …
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Thursday launched the International Year of Natural Fibres (IYNF) 2009 in a bid to emphasise the value of fibres while helping to sustain the incomes of farmers. At a ceremony launching the IYNF, Hafez Ghanem, the FAO assistant director-general for social and …
Bathinda: Jaitu-based Kheti Virasat Mission (KVM) today expressed serious reservations over the report on organic farming recently released by the Punjab State Farmers' Commission. Dubbing the report as a
This guidelines provide basic information and practical guidance for anyone who participates in a FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) - whether as a FAO/WFP core team member, a government or other agency participant, or a donor observer. They can also be of use to organizations and individuals …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi December 22, 2008, 0:17 IST The Food Price Index in October 2008 rose 28 per cent over October 2006. Despite a sharp fall in international prices of cereals from their record levels in mid-2008, domestic food prices remain high in most developing countries, causing concern …
Jon Vidal No one could have predicted quite how dramatically 2008 would have ended. Even as President Bush was slashing his way through U.S. environmental protection laws, president-elect Obama appointed Nobel prize-winning physicist Steve Chu as the next U.S. energy secretary. Chu is seen as the repudiation of everything that …
Ocean warming, frequent tropical cyclones, flash floods and droughts are likely to bring a devastating impact on food production systems in Pacific island countries, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Tuesday. Climate change-related disasters have already seriously constrained the development of these islands, the FAO said in …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi November 24, 2008, 0:11 IST A United Nations agency has warned of negative impact of the global financial crisis on agriculture in the developing countries and has called for an agricultural bailout package of $30 billion annually to ward off hunger and food riots.
Indonesia, which has been losing forests at a rapid pace in recent years, plans to plant 100 million trees across the country this year in an effort to limit deforestation, a forestry official said on Wednesday. Indonesia has lost an estimated 70 percent of its original frontier forest, but it …
Shyam Ranganathan Migratory birds flocking at the Kodiakkarai sanctuary near Vedaranyam. NAGAPATTINAM: A project, to be funded by the Food and Agriculture Organisation, will study the role of migratory birds in the spread of avian influenza, using tracking devices in three bird sanctuaries later this year, K. Balachandran, Indian co-ordinator …
The Food and Agricultural Organisation has undertaken a project to provide more than 11,000 flood-affected farmers with seeds and fertilisers during the upcoming boro season, agriculture ministry sources said. The technical assistance project, Input Supply to Vulnerable Population under Initiatives on Soaring Food Price, approved by the agriculture ministry in …
Amid the international financial crisis, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has warned that falling food prices and reduced access to credit are likely to hit the agricultural production, threatening global food security.
Farmers Can Take Recourse To MSP, Export Decision Can Be Reviewed In 2009 Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI THE government would do well by not removing the ban on wheat exports now. If India exports wheat now, the global prices, which are already low, would plunge to new depths. The government …
Global wheat and other cereals output will jump to record highs this year, but the financial crisis is likely to hit the world farming sector and may trigger a new price surge next year, UN
Tens of thousands of farmers in the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta face the prospect of a thin rice harvest this monsoon season and uncertainty over whether they will be able to plant the vital summer crop. "We cultivated the fields quite late this year and we did not have enough livestock …
