Finally, microorganisms and pollinators receive much needed support: Technical working group formed by FAO
19th session of Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture held July 17-21, 2023 in Rome to decide on the agenda for next two years
Global forest product industries recover from recession
India emerges one of the top five forest products consuming countries
One Health: FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH launch research agenda for antimicrobial resistance
Interface addresses global health issues necessitating multisectoral, multidisciplinary response to AMR
Save and Grow: a guide to sustainable cereal production
The technique focuses on conservation agriculture, maintaining soil health, selecting crops with higher yield potential and greater resistance to …
Iraq needs US $38.5 million aid to avert collapse of agriculture sector: FAO
Many of Iraq's water resources, including two great rivers—Tigris and Euphrates—flows through areas that are under IS militants’…
Poor governance, weak institutions threat to agricultural commodity markets: FAO
Ministers have been asked to discuss how commodities should be related to post-2015 development goals
FDI in retail: some unanswered questions
Urban consumer may benefit, but what about marginal farmers and the environment?
Declining food imports by most vulnerable countries a cause for concern: FAO
World food import bill to touch record high, but cost-of-living pressures may persist in 2023
Food standards save lives, say FAO and WHO on World Food Safety Day
An estimated 600 million or almost 1 in 10 people worldwide fall ill after eating contaminated food; 420,000 die every year
World Health Statistics 2015: some achievements, many concerns
Down To Earth highlights the world’s performance on health-related development goals, where our successes lie and where efforts are still a …
El Nino fallout: food prices to shoot northward
The weather phenomenon will bring down production, increase food prices worldwide
Surging bird flu cases may increase human infection risk, warn UN agencies & WOAH
Urge countries to strengthen disease surveillance and improve hygiene at poultry farms
Alternatives to endosulfan
FAO to give suggestions on the pesticide to committee on persistent organic pollutants
'Social protection: a safety net for agricultural households'
In the run up to World Food Day on October 16, a Food and Agriculture Organization report focuses on the role of social protection in …
International experts call for coordinated action to mitigate climate change impact on agriculture
Symposium organised by WMO and FAO recommends various measures to tackle the challenge of growing more food in the next 20 years
UN report identifies top ten food-borne parasites
Codex Committee may introduce new standards for global food trade in order to control the entry of these parasites into the food chain
Democratising the global food chain
From corporatisation to cooperatives
Make forestry policies people-centric, says FAO
UN agency’s latest state of the forests report says poverty alleviation and rural employment should be the ulterior driving force in …
COVID-19: Around 45 mln pushed into global food insecurity, says FAO report
Around 33 million reside in South and South east Asia, remainder in sub-Saharan Africa
Family farms are vital to world food security, says FAO report
UN organisation urges public sector to develop family farming as a sustainable source of the world’s food needs
Lessons in becoming water wise
S V Govardhan Das, a geologist, compiled the voluminous FAO report on participatory groundwater management programmes in the seven districts of …
COVID-19 pandemic, repeated weather shocks drove 122 million more to hunger since 2019: UN
If trends remain as they were, the UN-mandated Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of ending hunger by 2030 will not be reached
Local communities can manage aquifers better: FAO study
Two participatory programmes on water management in drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh help farmers conserve groundwater
One in every nine persons in the world goes hungry: UN State of Food Insecurity Report
Asia houses 526 million of the 805 million chronically undernourished people in the world
Communities require policy support to manage forests well, says FAO
UN body recommends setting up forest and farm producer organisations so that small-scale forest producers can compete with large-scale business