Democratising the global food chain

From corporatisation to cooperatives

FDI in retail: some unanswered questions

Urban consumer may benefit, but what about marginal farmers and the environment?

Hunger and poverty trigger most of the conflicts, says FAO official

Ongoing conflicts is Africa and West Asia could be seen as closest examples

Ebola spurs food insecurity fears in African countries

Areas most affected by the outbreak are among the most productive in Sierra Leone and Liberia

Bushmeat contributing to Ebola epidemic, warns FAO

Ebola death toll rises to over 630

New software to conserve shark species

The practice of slashing off a shark's fins and dumping the animal back into the sea has been declared illegal in many countries

FAO in partnership with wholesale union to reduce food waste

World is losing 1.3 billion tonnes of food worth $1 trillion every year

UN considers payments for forest ecosystem services

This will help create sustainable livelihoods and resilient ecosystems, says a report by three UN agencies

Countries vow to wipe out sheep and goat plague globally by 2030

The deadly animal disease causes a loss of US $2billion annually and has put livelihood of millions of poor at risk in 70 countries of Asia and Africa

Decade-old FAO guidelines still the way ahead for food security, says report

No consensus at forums like WTO dangerous for international food security, it adds

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

Global forest product industries recover from recession

India emerges one of the top five forest products consuming countries

Alternatives to endosulfan

FAO to give suggestions on the pesticide to committee on persistent organic pollutants

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 …

Return of bird flu in India raises alarm

No confirmation yet on whether virus is a mutant one

A look at some of the world’s most threatened forests

Unplanned and unrestrained activities for agriculture, industry and urbanisation are ruining our most important ally in nature—the forest

International food standards revised; safe limit for lead reduced

Codex standards now also contain a prescribed daily intake value of potassium, a mineral known to reduce the risk of heart disease

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

After last year’s drought, food production in Syria sees a boost this year

Good rains have improved production, but it still is not close to pre-crisis levels, say UN agencies

International pact to tackle illegal fishing gathers momentum

Agreement promotes collaboration among fishermen, port authorities and coast guards to strengthen inspection at ports and on fishing vessels

‘South Asia has highest number of chronically hungry people’

UN hunger report says main challenge for the region is overcoming slow progress in improving low levels of food utilisation

2014 is International Year of Family Farming

Smallholder farming which is the predominant form of agriculture in the food production sector faces various challenges at governance and …

Ebola-ravaged Guinea to benefit from new food security initiatives

Nearly 470,000 people in the West African country might be food insecure by March 2015

UN warns against one of the world’s ‘most destructive banana diseases’

After Asia, Latin America, a region where about 70 per cent of the world’s banana exports are grown, could be next to be affected