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Global food prices continue rising in October

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...

Half of world’s 3.3 billion global workforce are at risk of...

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...

Food loss and waste must be reduced for greater food security...

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...

Global trade in food, agri products more than doubles in...

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...

Food Security: Google, FAO launch new Big Data tool for all

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...

27 countries heading for COVID-19-driven food crises: Report

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...

COVID-19: FAO launches new Response and Recovery Programme

Monitoring Desk Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO) has launched its new comprehensive COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme, aimed at preventing a global food...

COVID-19: Global food markets to face uncertainty in 2020/21, says FAO

By Economic Desk Food markets will face many more months of uncertainty due to COVID-19, but the agri-food sector is likely to show more resilience...

FAO Food Price Index falls to 17-month low

World Desk Global commodity food prices fell for the fourth consecutive month in May, as supplies appear strong and demand weakens due to economic contractions...

$350 million needed to avert hunger as countries reel from COVID-19...

World Desk The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is seeking $350 million to scale up hunger-fighting and livelihoods-boosting activities in food crisis contexts where...

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