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Press release… FAO lowers forecast for world cereal production, but this year’s output still expected to reach an all-time high… 5 November 2020, Rome – Global food prices continued rising for the fifth consecutive month in October, led by cereals, sugar, dairy and vegetable oils, according to a new report from …

Press release… Innovation and digitalization key for agriculture development in Europe and Central Asia… FAO, ITU and others stress the need for innovative agricultural policies and actions… 4 November 2020, Tashkent/Budapest/Rome – The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, the Secretary-General of the …

The Food Coalition is a multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral alliance that will activate and mobilize support for unified global actions in response to COVID-19. The Food Coalition will support innovative COVID-19 initiatives, identified in the context of various synergistic lines of action, not only to ensure global food access, but also to increase …

Policymakers urgently need ideas on ways to end hunger. But a global review of the literature finds that most researchers have had the wrong priorities. How can research help to end hunger? One way to answer this question is to assess published research on hunger, and determine which interventions can …

Press release… Highlights: Intergovernmental Council on Pandemic Prevention;Addressing risk drivers including deforestation & wildlife trade;Tax high pandemic-risk activities 540,000 – 850,000 unknown viruses in nature could still infect people;More frequent, deadly and costly pandemics forecast;Current economic impacts are 100 times the estimated cost of prevention Future pandemics will emerge more …

Press release… EIMA International: The “green corridors” for foreign businesspeople are coming The organizational offices of the world exhibition of agricultural machinery launch the procedures required to authorize the arrival of foreign businesspeople to the exhibition. Due to the small number of nations that cannot benefit from the preferential route …

This week, the global forestry advisory body to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released details on how sustainable forest management and forest products are well-positioned to drive a healthy, green, and inclusive recovery as we continue to face serious challenges related to Covid-19 around the …

Washington could complain to the World Trade Organisation if the European Union goes ahead with a farming strategy that it believes “protectionist”, US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue warned last week. “The impact on transatlantic trade can be extremely problematic,” Purdue told European journalists in a teleconference, adding that he had …

World Egg Day is celebrated every year on the second Friday in October. On World Egg Day, events are held across the world celebrating the egg. The first World Egg Day was celebrated in 1996 and since then we have seen a variety of wonderful events taking place internationally, with people …

Press release… 08 October 2020, Rome – The benchmark price index for food commodities rose in September, led by vegetable oils and cereals, according to a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 97.9 points during the month, up 2.1 percent from August …