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 …
More than 11 million children die every year before reaching the age of five, out of which nearly eight million deaths are caused by pneumonia, diarrhoea, measles, malaria and malnutrition. Many of these deaths can be prevented, with the help of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), an approach developed …
The latest UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report highlights the sorry plight of the world's forests. According to the State of the World's Forests 1997, an estimated 11.3 million hectares (ha) of the world's forests are lost each year. The report also estimates that the area of the world's …
A report recently released by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (fao) and the World Food Programe (wfp), has predicted that Rwanda will need substantial food assistance this year, following the influx of over one million returnees. This was stated in a un Information Centre press release around mid-January. …
a bloody war is brewing within the portals of the United Nations as two un bodies, the Food and Agricultural Organization (fao) and the un Environment Programme (unep) fight for the control of the world's plant genetic resources. While the recently held World Food Summit in Rome (Down To Earth, …
in june (17-23) this year, 150 representatives of various governments and ngo s met in Leipzig, Germany, to finalise negotiations on a global plan of action ( gpa ) for conservation and sustainable utilisation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Topmost on the agenda was the reorientation of …
• US: Losses in maize, onion, lettuce, tomato, peas, beans, cabbage and radish have been reported. From about 800 varieties of maize in 1903, the figure is down to about 50 in 1994. • China: In the 1970's, only 10 per cent of the strains of wheat in production were …
the Fourth International Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization (fao) in Leipzig, Germany, from June 17-23 , was dogged by criticisms even before the curtains were actually raised on it. The representatives of the 148 nations who met there to forge an agreement …
Conservation and sustainable use of plants is the prime issue on the agenda of the participants in the ongoing Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) conference in Leipzig. Germany. According to the FAO. around three-quarters of the world's plant species have been lost this century. The spread of modern. commercial agriculture …
WHO should control the samples of germplasms that originated in the forests and wildlands of the developing countries, but are now preserved in the laboratories and seed banks of the industrialised nations? Who owns these precious plant genetic resources (PGR), that are vital for ensuring the planet's future food security? …
AN ASSESSMENT was made by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently on several Asia- Pacific countries. Despite three decades of impressive economic growth when food production doubled in this region, hunger, malnutrition and related cases claim several thousand lives everyday. It also reveals that although India could generate more …
To combat world hunger and malnutrition, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced on February 15 that it would be hosting the World Food Summit between November 13 to 17. at FAO's headquarters in Rome. The Summit will be attended by heads of state and will be the first gathering …
AGRICULTURE all over the world has suffered many aid cuts in the recent past, according to the director general of the um Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Jacques Diouf This has led to the world grain stocks plummetting to their lowest level in 20 years and a concomitant increase in …
EARTH still has a treasure cove of unexplored arable land which may help the world feed its spiraling population, ssy a report World Agriculture. Towards 2010, by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "Expansion a agriculture into new land ... may bring under cultivation an additional le million hectares," …
The World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a couple of other UN bodies have launched a global integrated pest management facility to reduce excessive and costly pesticide use which threatens both human health and environment (Pesticide News, No 28). The pilot projects under the new programme will focus …
In a bid to ease workload on rural wometi in coastal areas, a simple yet effective fish scaler has been developed under a Food and Agriculture Organization project (IRED-Forum, No 53). The scaler comprises of meticu- lously eleaned jagged-edged bottle tops nailed to a square, wooden bat in a way …
Famine stares Africa in the face. And this time the situation is particularly bad because donor nations have severely slashed their aid programmes, says a special report prepared by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Thanks to a devastating drought, grain production in southern Africa had fallen by …
Too wide a net The world's fishing industry is on self-destructive overdrive and countries are belligerently marking out marine territory KAVITA CHARANJI TOO many boats chasing too few fish. That's the story being replayed with increasing frustration in the world's major oceans. In the North Pacific, triggerhappy fishermen competing for …
The United Nations Population Fund, in its recently published annual report, expresses serious concern over the overwhelming rise in sexual diseases the world over and examines problems surrounding contraception and abortion. The report observes that the present trend of "marrying late" encourages the younger generation to indulge in more casual …
PERUVIANS catch 11.6 million metric tonnes (MT) of fish annually but consume only 3 kg - 16 per cent of the amount recommended by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) - per head. Measures to develop freshwater fishing aim more towards generating profits, exports and employment, rather than improving the …
