सुलगता खतरा
नाइजीरिया चारकोल की मांग पूरी करने के लिए ऊष्णकटिबंधीय वन तेजी से खोता जा रहा है। इस सस्ते ईंधन ने देश की जैव विविधता ...
World Food Day 2019: Why we must prevent food wastage
It is a moral and technical failure in a world where hunger and malnutrition have yet to be eradicated
Andhra farmers taste success with Zero Budget Natural Farming
Ensuring food security, producing more with less resources and building the resilience of smallholder farmers are important towards creating a …
Fisheries: an answer to food security and nutrition
For several countries fish exports are essential to national economies, FAO experts say
A new programme aims at increasing Africa's soil productivity by 30%
Poor soil fertility is a major constraint to improving farm productivity and farmer livelihoods in Africa
`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 …
FAO focuses on heat stress protection measures for agriculture, forestry workers
Emphasising that dehydration leads to productivity declines, a report urges workers and employers to drink several litres of water throughout the day
World Food Day: investing in food security for a better future
As the number of hungry people is on the rise again globally, we must invest in rural development to drive about a change
Can biotechnology help feed the world’s hungriest region—Asia and the Pacific?
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
Health ministers in G20 Summit commit to address antimicrobial resistance
Through Berlin Declaration, the health ministers emphasised the need for combating AMR through appropriate monitoring and surveillance
New global standard adopted for making trade in plants and seeds safer
There is an increasing risk that pests carried by seeds could establish themselves and spread after planting
Agricultural transformation vital to produce 50% more food in 2050
In sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, agricultural output would need to more than double by the middle of the century
New drought in Ethiopia puts recovery at risk
A new drought is emerging in southern and southeastern pastoral areas of the country
Women key players in ending hunger, poverty
As rural women are an integral part of the agrarian economy, they are important in the effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Investment in technology must to achieve zero hunger
FAO estimates that the world will need to produce some 60 per cent more food, on an average, to feed a hungry world by 2050
Challenges stand in way of African agricultural transformation
Land degradation and soil erosion can play a detrimental role in limiting Africa’s agricultural transformation
Assuring tenure rights to pastoralists can ensure food security
Over 500 million people rely on livestock herding in rangelands. They move from one place to another in search of pasture and to avoid drought, …
Promoting pulses can contribute to Sustainable Development Goals
One of the most extensively-used foods in the world, pulses are rich in fibre and are a great source of vitamins and minerals such as iron, zinc …
UN food agency predicts bumper wheat, rice harvests
The global rice production is also predicted to expand for the first time in three years, mainly due to abundant monsoon rains in Asia and …
Report urges countries to set reduction targets to minimise food waste
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, approximately one-third of all food produced in the world is either …
Product label for mountain products puts premium on biological, cultural diversity
The new label places a premium on goods that support local biodiversity and production methods linked to cultural traditions of mountain communities
'BRICS countries in a position to shape agricultural policies'
Most of the world’s 795 million undernourished people live in developing countries. These countries will need to increase their food …
Food consumption rate in Africa rising 10 times faster than production
Low productivity of smallholder agriculture and growing population are pushing the demand for forest resources
People in Southern Africa need support to produce food
Farmers must plant by October and failure to do so will result in another reduced harvest in March 2017
