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The UN General Assembly has marked, 2020 as International Year of Plant Health while 10 February will mark World Pulses Day and 7 June will be World Food Safety Day
UN marks 2020 as International Year of Plant Health Read More
The FAO-WFO agreement will focus on supporting and promoting the key role that farmers and their organisations play in efficient, inclusive and sustainable agriculture and food systems; reducing rural poverty; reaching food and nutrition security; and achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
FAO, WFO to help farmers drive global agricultural agenda Read More
Seeing both forests and trees is about to get easier, thanks to a new open-access tool developed by NASA and FAO with support from the Google Earth Engine Team and the US Government’s SilvaCarbon Program – allowing anyone to track land-use and landscape changes anywhere
NASA, FAO’s next-generation geospatial tool to monitor forests Read More
European Union’s Development Commissioner Neven Mimica and FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva signed the funding agreements for three new programmes
EU provides €12 million to support global food security Read More
Family farmers represent nearly 800 million people and have long been agricultural entrepreneurs and innovators. They manage about 75 percent of the world’s agricultural land and produce about 80 percent of the world’s food
Innovation in agriculture vital to address future food challenges Read More
The NEDAC general assembly of 22 prominent cooperative organisations from eight countries unanimously decided to focus on C2C and capacity development to meet challenges of climate change as transformative cooperatives
NEDAC sets agenda for cooperatives to cooperatives trade Read More
The Forest and Farm Facility initiative – a partnership among FAO, IIED, IUCN and AgriCord will scale up its efforts to help forest and farm producers and their organisations develop climate-resilient landscapes and farming
Global partnership to strengthen climate-resilient farming Read More
The Council of the European Union stressed close cooperation with FAO on climate, food waste, antibiotics resistance and many more agricultural issues
EU hails FAO’s role in sustainability in food & agriculture Read More
New FAO tool lists concrete steps ways to speed up implementation of the Sustainable Development Agenda
20 actions to transform food and agriculture Read More
A growing number of countries are signing up to a global agreement that helps stop illegal fishing, as the international community today marks the first International Day for the Fight Against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing
More countries sign up to block illegal fishing Read More