Tag: FAO

  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...

World Desk Did you know that not all bananas are yellow or curved like a half moon? Some are straight, some are stumpy, some are...

Agriculture Desk Water pollution from unsustainable agricultural practices poses a serious risk to human health and the planet's ecosystems, a problem often underestimated by policymakers...

World Desk Marking World Soil Day, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO) has launched the most comprehensive global map showing the amount...

By Muhammad Luqman The Asia-Pacific region, home to most of the world's undernourished people, needs urgent action to improve diets and reset its food systems...

By Muhammad Luqman A fungus poses major risks to the world's banana production and could cause vast commercial losses and even greater damage to...