Tag: 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...

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...

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...

Agriculture Desk Desert locusts that have swarmed Iran and Pakistan after damaging crops in eastern Africa, have the potential to turn into a plague ,...

Monitoring Desk World food commodity prices declined for the third month in a row during April, as the economic and logistical impacts of the COVID-19...

By Muhammad Luqman Pakistan's government has declared an ational emergency to eliminate the attacking swarms of desert locust which are destroying crops on a large...

World Desk Rome- based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has  launched the United Nations’ International Year...

Agriculture Desk  The Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF) has contributed $9.5 million to an FAO-led project that aims to boost the resilience...

  Agriculture Desk Around 14 percent of the world's food is lost after harvesting and before reaching the retail level, including through on-farm activities, storage and...

Monitoring Desk Qu Dongyu, China's deputy agricultural minister has been elected as the new director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. The 55 years...