Genetic tools like CRISPR can help reduce pesticide use, pollution and boost food production without employing more land and water, natural resources increasingly strained by the growing food demand of expanding populations in the developing world. View video of the panel …
FAO Director-General addresses Vatican Conference on Food Loss and Waste Reduction
FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said raising awareness, greater innovation – including digital technologies – and investment were needed to reduce food waste and eliminate global hunger.
The Director-General gave the keynote speech to the Vatican’s Conference on Food Loss and Waste …
FAO’s State of Food and Agriculture 2019
The idea of food being lost or wasted sounds simple, but in practice there is no commonly agreed definition.
Essentially, food loss and waste is the decrease in quantity or quality of food along the food supply chain.
Food loss occurs along the food supply chain from …
Bananas may be the world’s favourite fruit, but plantations worldwide are increasingly under threat from a new fungus, which destroys banana plants threatening farmers’ livelihoods and the industry.
Confined to Southeast Asia for decades, the Fusarium wilt Tropical Race 4 (TR4) was spotted for the first time in Africa recently and …
The role of forests in supporting food security and nutrition in Africa remains largely under-researched, the Food and Agriculture Organization said.
FAO country representative Gabriel Rugalema said adequate attention has not been given at policy level to the link between forests and food security and nutrition.
“With food security and nutrition high …
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Director-General Qu Dongyu has called for the food industry to do more to support healthy foods, and to reduce food loss and waste throughout the cycle of food systems from farm to fork.
“Nutrition should not be an ends in itself, but rather a means …
Almost five million pigs in Asia have now died or been culled because of the spread of African swine fever (ASF), according to reports by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The contagious viral disease that affects domestic and wild pigs was first detected in Asia …
José Graziano da Silva, former Director-General of the FAO and Maximo Torero Cullen write:
While hunger remains a scourge, a more complex nutrition problem is looming ever larger.
An estimated 820 million people or 11% of those alive today, suffer from chronic undernourishment. But the number of obese people in the world …
From the Anadolu Agency, Turkey
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a campaign to make women primary stake holders in the field of agriculture investments in the African continent, by working with regional legislators, to strengthen legal frameworks.
It has suggested to form a coalition of regional parliamentarians, to …
The plants, animals, and micro-organisms that are the bedrock of food production are in decline, according to a UN study.
If these critical species are lost, the report says, it “places the future of our food system under severe threat”.
The study says that land-use changes, pollution, and climate change are all …
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