New tool tracks water usage in agriculture

There is a direct relationship between water and food security. In order to be sustainable, agriculture must adapt to the impacts of climate …

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 …

Europe, Central Asia need to tackle poverty, climate change to be hunger-free

Support smallholders, family farmers to reduce poverty, says FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva at a regional conference in Russia

Conflicts, climate make 2 more nations need food aid

An FAO report says Cabo Verde and Senegal have been added to a list of 39 countries that need external food assistance owing to poor cropping …

Africa must be proactive about drought, not reactive, says FAO

As the continent feels the heat of climate change, it is time it adopts measures to better manage its water and land to build greater resilience …

COVID-19: The world scrambles for food

The Indian government announced a Rs 1.7-lakh crore package for the poor and needy

Kenyan farmers suffer as COVID-19, locust invasion threatens harvest

COVID-19 pandemic has slowed the importation process leading to an inadequate supply of pesticides and equipment  

Combating fall armyworm attack amid confluence of challenges in Africa

The fall armyworm menace cost African farmers 40 per cent of their harvest in 2018. Amid COVID-19 spread, controlling the pest has become …

COVID-19: Asia-Pacific countries must act against recession-induced hunger

Sub-Saharan Africa, home to the world’s highest hunger rates, must now brace for its first recession in a quarter of a century

Deforestation rate globally declined between 2015 and 2020: FAO report

While the world lost 178 million hectares of forest in the last 30 years, the rate of net forest loss declined

Insect attacks affected 142 mn ha forest between 2003 and 2012: Report

The State of the World’s Forests report warned climate change will exacerbate wildfires and pest attacks in the future

9 maps to show how locusts have come to threaten India

Increase in frequency of cyclones results in extended, multiple breeding sessions of locusts

Locust attack: Farmers may delay monsoon crops as the crisis lingers

India will have a second attack of locusts from Africa hitting by next month as COVID-19 lockdown delays export of pesticides to Kenya  

COVID-19 community transmission in 26 of 54 African countries: WHO

Several African countries have a poor healthcare system — about five hospital beds per 10,000 population

Everything about desert locusts — and how to control them amid COVID-19 crisis

From Yemen to Indo-Pakistan border, how the swarms made way into India — and how the situation should be monitored 

पॉलिनेटर वीकः मधुमक्खियों और तितलियों का बचा रहना है बेहद जरूरी

एफएओ ने चेताया है कि दुनिया भर में लगभग 40 फीसदी अकशेरुक (वर्टीब्रेट) परागणक (पॉलिनेटर) की प्रजाति विलुप्त हो सकती हैं, जिनमें मधुमक्खियां और ...

Is India headed towards a locust plague

Exceptional summer breeding may prompt swarms to remain in the country through end of year, move east & south

India among top 10 countries gaining forest area in the world: FAO

Half of people employed in forestry in the world are in India  

COVID-19: The pandemic of inequality

Nobody is sure when this defining point of the pandemic would be declared over

वन क्षेत्र में वृद्धि वाले दस देशों में भारत भी शामिल: एफएओ

एफएओ ने 2010 से 2020 के दशक में दुनिया भर के वन संसाधनों का मूल्यांकन के बाद रिपोर्ट जारी की है

Centre launches pilot project to reduce emissions from agriculture

The project will be implemented in Mizoram, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Uttarakhand  

कृषि से उत्सर्जन कम करने के लिए केंद्र का ग्रीन एजी पायलट प्रोजेक्ट शुरू

यह परियोजना पांच राज्यों- मिजोरम, राजस्थान, मध्य प्रदेश, ओडिशा और ओडिशा में लागू होगी

FAO claims new platform to help fight food loss, wastage

Global body estimates that 14% of food is lost annually and leads to emission of around 1.5 gigatonnes of CO2

COVID-19: Food waste during pandemic can worsen climate emergency

The median amount of food waste per capita in large developed economies is significantly higher than in large developing economies

World Food Day: FAO is as relevant today as in 1945

The UN’s food agency was born in the wake of catastrophe. Three quarters of a century later, its mission has been made more relevant to the …