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 …
Biofuels are doing more harm than good, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation said yesterday, in its strongest call yet to review "current policies supporting, subsidising and mandating biofuel production and use". The FAO said the production of biofuels from agricultural commodities such as corn and soyabean was leading …
ROME: A UN agency called on Tuesday for an urgent review of agriculture and biofuel subsidies and trade barriers, saying their removal would increase opportunities for developing countries to take advantage of rising biofuel demand. Imposing price controls and export bans prevents markets from adjusting and may prolong and deepen …
The world food crisis, rapidly defined by those in power as a problem of insufficient production, has become a trojan horse to get corporate seeds, fertilisers and, surreptitiously, market systems into poor countries. As past experience shows, what looks like
Now, 925M Are Impoverished New York:A top UN agency has revealed that rising food prices have pushed 75 million more people into the ranks of the world
GOING ORGANIC: Basudeb Banerjee (right), Chairman, Tea Board of India, shaking hands with Kaison Chang, Secretary, FAO IGG on Tea, at a press conference in Kolkata on Friday. Anne Boor (left), Project Director, INFOAM, and Nianjun Schen, Assistant Project Manager-Common Fund for Commodities, look on. KOLKATA: The Intergovernmental Group (IGG) …
DRAVI KANTHG Geneva, 18 September As the world's absolute hunger threshold (or absolute poverty of less than $1.25 a day) rose to 923 million last year due to rising food prices, India accounted for a lion's share of over 231 million, according to the latest figures released by the United …
Ambootia tea garden (Kurseong), Sept. 18: A UN body will partially fund three pilot projects worth $4 million in India for creating a scientific system for cultivation of organic black tea. Till date, organic tea plantation in India is based on a trial and error method, without any set procedures. …
Global numbers afflicted by acute hunger rose from 850 million to 925 million by the start of this year because of rising prices, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said yesterday. The number of people suffering from malnutrition, before the worst effects of global price rises, "rose …
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) yesterday announced plans to boost rice production in districts hard hit by recent floods or conflict and by the soaring cost of many basic foods in Sri Lanka. Under the US$500,000 project, families in the four districts of north-central and eastern Sri …
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is to provide US$ 500,000 to increase rice production in conflict and flood affected districts of Sri Lanka. In a press release yesterday, the FAO said it has approved the funding for the project "Input supply to vulnerable populations under Initiative …
THOSE who keep in touch with Hollywood science-fiction movies know about the film "Star Wars," and worry about the earth being attacked by aliens. By analysing different wars over the last two decades, many political analysts came to a consensus that they were for establishing control over valuable natural resources …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi August 25, 2008, 0:21 IST Global warming and the consequent changes in climatic patterns will have strong impact on fisheries with far-reaching consequences for food and livelihood security of a sizeable section of the population. Some of the impacts are already being felt as reflected …
The race by food-importing countries to secure farmland overseas to improve their food security risks creating a "neo-colonial' system, the United Nations' top agriculture official has cautioned. The warning by Jacques Diouf, director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, comes as countries from Saudi Arabia to China plan to lease …
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is launching an emergency project through its Technical Co-operation Programme (TCP) in Pakistan to help impoverished farmers increase agricultural production. According to a statement of United Nations Information Centre (Islamabad), the project is the part of FAO's global Initiative on Soaring Food Prices (ISFP), …
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is launching an emergency project through its Technical Co-operation Programme (TCP) in Pakistan to help impoverished farmers in increasing the agricultural production, says a press release. While commenting on the food crisis in Pakistan, FAO Assistant Representative Syed Mohammad Ali said. "Soaring food prices …
This Agricultural Outlook offers an assessment of agricultural markets covering cereals, oilseeds, sugar, meats, milk and dairy products over the period 2008 to 2017. For the first time, it also includes an analysis of and projections for global biofuel markets for bioethanol and biodiesel, facilitating the discussion of interactions between …
Rory Carroll The number of people seeking help from aid agency feeding centres has tripled. At first sight the business resembles a thriving pottery. In a dusty courtyard women mould clay and water into hundreds of little platters and lay them out to harden under the Caribbean sun. The craftsmanship …
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai July 25, 2008, 0:55 IST India's paddy output is likely to rise marginally by 1.39 per cent, or 2 million tonnes, due to favourable monsoon in some major growing areas, says the latest report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The country's total paddy …
Studying the data spread over 23 years (1981-2003), the Food and Agriculture Organisation has concluded that 24 per cent of the global land area has degraded. This is over and above the extent of land that had already degraded. The situation has only worsened since 1991 when the previous assessment …
