`Many regions in Asia will face a decline in food productivity'

Kundhavi Kadiresan, Assistant Director-General and regional representative for Asia and the Pacific, FAO, talks about how achieving the Zero …

Report sees opportunities for agricultural growth in West Africa

Many countries rely on imports to meet their urban food market demand as a growing proportion of the population is made up of consumers, who …

Developing countries will witness increased demand for food in future: report

Rising per capita income will make consumers go in for diet diversification, especially by increasing consumption of animal protein as compared …

Antimicrobial resistance: interview with Juan Lubroth

Juan Lubroth is the chief veterinary officer of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

'India is likely to experience strong relative impacts of climate change'

Overexploitation of groundwater reservoirs and dependence of surface water reservoirs on monsoon rainfall may lead to decreasing freshwater …

The silver spoon

Development in the small-farm sector holds the key to a holistic progress in the Asia-Pacific countries

Here's how we can fill gaps in forestry data

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has released guidelines to monitor forest resources

'Global cooperation needed to reduce food insecurity in Iraq'

About 2 million Iraqis are now displaced within the country because of the current crisis brought on by ISIS militants, the Syrian conflicts and …

Food for thought

A happy picture painted by a recent FAO report gives way to grim realities about global food situation

Swift scaler

In dire straits

Mountains that matter

The United Nations declares 2002 as the International Year of the Mountains

Tropical forests the size of Europe lost in first 20 years of this century

South America lost around 68 million hectares — the highest in the world, followed by Africa with 49 million hectares, according to a new …

Creepy-crawlies on my plate

The writer tasted creepy crawly creatures during a conference on indigenous food in Shillong, Meghalaya

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Global Forest Resource Assessment: Tropical forests the size of Europe lost in first 20 years of this century

Deforestation slowed by 30% in 2010-18; cropland, oil palm plantation and grazing biggest drivers of deforestation

Agricultural heritage sites join ancient wisdom with modern adaptation

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System sites can teach us how our ancestors found ways to craft viable landscapes even in very austere …

Can biotechnology help feed the world’s hungriest region—Asia and the Pacific?

'People can farm insects to produce cheaper animal feed'

Senior FAO officer Paul Vantomme talks about food recycling, improved nutrition and the many uses of insects

Fastest loss of forests in Asia

Besting pests

Consumption: peaking to a fall