Tag: FAO

Monitoring Desk Global fisheries and aquaculture have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and could face further disruption in 2021 as lockdowns affect supply...

Monitoring Desk The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the recent decision by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council to...

Monitoring Desk The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has appointed the popular British gardening expert, writer and broadcaster, Monty Don, as...

Monitoring Desk More than three billion people live in agricultural areas with high to very high levels of water shortages and scarcity, and almost half...

Economic Desk Global food prices continued rising for the fifth consecutive month in October, led by cereals, sugar, dairy and vegetable oils, according to a...

Web Desk The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems...

Web Desk Some 690 million people today are hungry and three billion cannot afford a healthy diet. Hunger has been on the rise for the...

Agriculture Desk Global agri-food trade has more than doubled since 1995, amounting to $1.5 trillion in 2018, with emerging and developing countries' exports on the...

Monitoring Desk Anyone anywhere can access multidimensional maps and statistics showing key climate and environmental trends by using a new tool jointly developed by Google...

Monitoring Desk UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) have identified 27 countries that are on the frontline of impending COVID-19-driven...