UN agency pushes for global coordination on bioeconomy
Bio products can improve access to food and, if produced sustainably, help address climate change
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Getting private sector to favour nutritious, affordable and accessible diets
The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition in partnership with FAO, suggests ways in which governments can persuade food industry partners to provide consumers with better access to healthier diets
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Plant protection convention adopts measures to check plant pests
The International Plant Protection Convention has approved standard measures on fruit flies, heat & chemical treatments, surveillance and wood packaging
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Global hybrid seeds market to reach $99,854 Mn by 2023
Indian hybrid seeds market is expected to grow at the highest CAGR of 10.3 percent while Asia-Pacific is expected to lead the market during the forecast period, followed by LAMEA
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Focus on helping farm labourers' cope with the heat
In a bid to reduce health risks and even death, FAO has published two papers mapping ways to improve worker health and safety
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ICRISAT, DowDuPont to share advance breeding technologies
ICRISAT and Corteva Agriscience™, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, today inked a multi-year partnership to strengthen food security by improving crops that feed millions through sharing of high-tech and modern breeding technologies
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World Bank to fund $420 mn for climate resilient farming in Maharashtra
Government of India, Government of Maharashtra and the World Bank signed new project to benefit over 25 million small and marginal farmers in Marathwada and Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra
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Family farmers must remain central to agroecology scale-up: FAO
Family farmers must remain central to bringing agroecology to scale, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva stressed in his closing remarks to the 2nd International Agroecology Symposium at FAO
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Agroecology can help change the world’s food production
FAO calls for transformative change at 2nd International Agroecology Symposium in Rome
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