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Water Scarcity In Asia-Pacific Casts A Dark Cloud Over World Food Day
Monday, 16 October 2023, 6:50 pm | Food and Agriculture Organisation
Competing demands for access to freshwater in the Asia-Pacific region are intensifying, and this could have dire consequences for the region’s massive agriculture sector and, ultimately, could interrupt regular and affordable access to food for millions ... More >>
On World Food Safety Day, Everyone From Growers To Supply Chains To Consumers Must Adopt One Health Approach
Monday, 7 June 2021, 4:37 pm | Food and Agriculture Organisation
More than 600 million people, or 1 in 10, fall ill and 420 000 die each year from eating food contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins or chemicals. Most of the deaths are among the poor and young. Low and middle-income countries ... More >>
UN Agencies Warn Economic Impact Of COVID-19 And Worsening Inequalities Will Fuel Malnutrition For Billions
Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 5:42 pm | Food and Agriculture Organisation
JOINT NEWS RELEASE BY FAO-UNICEF-WFP-WHO The economic impact of COVID-19 on the world’s most populous region is threatening to further undermine efforts to improve diets and nutrition of nearly two billion people in Asia and the Pacific who were ... More >>
On World Food Day, Asia-Pacific Countries Consider Plan To Recover From COVID-19, Eradicate Hunger
Saturday, 17 October 2020, 8:30 am | Food and Agriculture Organisation
Every year, FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific celebrates the importance of World Food Day. This year, given the COVID-19 global pandemic and the disruptions it has caused to livelihoods and food security, our celebrations are muted, yet within ... More >>
New Agreement To Protect Vulnerable Family Farmers From Volcanic Eruptions Takes Shape
Friday, 19 June 2020, 7:20 am | Food and Agriculture Organisation
While increasingly unpredictable, and seasonal, climate-related disasters continue to cause massive hardships for farmers and their animals in Asia and the Pacific, the world’s most disaster-prone region, volcanic eruptions can cause catastrophe. ... More >>
FAO Warns Multiple Impact Of Viruses, Plagues And Economic Damage Will Fuel Hunger In Asia, Pacific
Friday, 29 May 2020, 8:12 am | Food and Agriculture Organisation
While the world fights to slow the spread of COVID-19, the worst pandemic experienced in a century, countries in South Asia are simultaneously responding to plagues of locusts, cyclones and a deadly livestock disease, all of which threaten to worsen More >>
FAO And UNEP To Launch The First Joint Edition Of The State Of The World’s Forests
Friday, 22 May 2020, 7:10 am | Food and Agriculture Organisation
The State of the World’s Forests 2020 has been produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for the first time. As FAO and UNEP prepare to lead the United Nations ... More >>
COVID-19’s long shadow darkens the future in Southeast Asia
Wednesday, 6 May 2020, 2:52 pm | Food and Agriculture Organisation
As COVID-19 continues to threaten the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Southeast Asia, additional concerns are being raised about the longer term health of the sub-region’s food systems – a complex matrix involving farmers, fishers, ... More >>
Green Climate Fund approves major grant to Nepal
Thursday, 14 November 2019, 7:59 am | Food and Agriculture Organisation
13/11/2019, Songdo, Republic of Korea – The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved more than USD 39 million in funding for a project that will build resilience and mitigate the effects of climate change to the benefit of nearly one million people ... More >>
Asia-Pacific region must move to strengthen aquaculture
Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 8:07 am | Food and Agriculture Organisation
05/11/2019 Bangkok, Thailand – The Asia-Pacific region is taking important preparatory steps to strengthen the governance of aquaculture for sustainable development and future food security, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ... More >>
FAO to call for immediate action to tackle rising obesity
Thursday, 10 October 2019, 8:21 am | Food and Agriculture Organisation
Bangkok, Thailand – The regional office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Bangkok will convene a high-level meeting to call for immediate action to curb rising levels of obesity in Asia and the Pacific brought ... More >>
MARKET CLOSE: NZ shares buoyed by RBA rate cut
Tuesday, 2 July 2019, 9:13 pm | Food and Agriculture Organisation
July 2 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand shares rose as lower interest rates across the Tasman and cooling trade tensions between the US and China buoyed investor sentiment, underpinning demand for yield stocks such as Property For Industry and Contact Energy. More >>
African Swine Fever is rapidly spreading
Tuesday, 2 July 2019, 8:50 pm | Food and Agriculture Organisation
FAO GIEWS Report – 2 July 2019 - East and Southeast Asia Focus African Swine Fever is rapidly spreading in East and Southeast Asia threatening food security and livelihoods of households relying on pig farming (full report: http://www.fao.org/3/ca5273en/ca5273en.pdf ... More >>
Clearing the road ahead to reach Zero Hunger
Wednesday, 26 June 2019, 2:14 pm | Food and Agriculture Organisation
25/06/2019 Rome – Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger has slowed in Asia and the Pacific, despite strong economic advances, and highlighting the need for concerted policy actions to tackle the increasingly complex nature of ... More >>
World tuna trade conference: ensuring sustainable fisheries
Monday, 28 May 2018, 5:18 pm | Food and Agriculture Organisation
28/05/2018, Bangkok – A gathering of the global tuna industry and other stakeholders has heard that a coordinated effort is required to ensure a sustainable fishery that can help achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. More >>
Improvements to food safety and mitigating the effects of cl
Monday, 9 April 2018, 2:03 pm | Food and Agriculture Organisation
Countries of Asia-Pacific warned improvements to food safety and mitigating the effects of climate change on agriculture are critical to future food security, rural livelihoods and trade More >>
Fiji to host FAO Asia-Pacific Regional Conference
Saturday, 9 December 2017, 11:39 am | Food and Agriculture Organisation
Fiji to host FAO Asia-Pacific Regional Conference 8 December 2017, Suva, Fiji – The Government of Fiji has formally agreed to host the 34th FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ... More >>
Calls for responsible antibiotic use renewed
Monday, 13 November 2017, 7:58 pm | Food and Agriculture Organisation
Crowd-sourced good practices in agriculture production showcased More than a year after the urgent call by the United Nations for countries to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations renewed ... More >>
Improved access to agricultural biotechnologies needed
Monday, 11 September 2017, 7:32 pm | Food and Agriculture Organisation
Improved access to agricultural biotechnologies needed to help defeat hunger, malnutrition and poverty in the Asia-Pacific region 11/09/2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Smallholder farmers in the world’s hungriest and most populous region need greater access to ... More >>
Agri science & tech investment critical to defeating hunger
Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 9:13 am | Food and Agriculture Organisation
13/12/2016 Hainan Province, China – In order to meet the world’s sustainable development goals of defeating hunger and poverty by 2030, governments and the private sector need to reenergize their agricultural science and technology research capacities, ... More >>
