Control of fruit fly does not stop at national borders | FAO
The seven countries of Central America approached the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture in 2001 for help in reducing fruit...
Category : Food
Establishing and linking global fish-trade information networks | FAO
The global export value of fish and associated products has soared dramatically over recent decades, from US$15 billion in 1980 to US$130 billion today. Some...
FAO’s EU Food Facility projects end but their impact continues | FAO
A high food price crisis and concurrent global economic downturn combined to push millions of the world’s poor people further into poverty in 2007-2008, with...
Women dairy farmers reinvest income to support their families | FAO
Thousands of Afghan farmers, mainly women, inked their thumbs to sign letters calling for the expansion of an FAO dairy project to include their villages...
Simple fish-drying racks improve livelihoods and nutrition in Burundi | FAO
Raised wire-mesh racks, covered with small, silver lake fish drying in the sun, stretch across the Burundi shore of Lake Tanganyika near the small fishing...
Smallholder tea producers benefit from harmonized safety standards | FAO
Tea began its journey towards becoming the most widely consumed beverage in the world, after water, some 5 000 years ago. According to folklore, a...
Banana varieties resistant to fungus are identified using mutation induction | FAO
The Cavendish banana variety, which accounts for 95 percent of all bananas sold commercially, is seedless, making it extremely convenient to eat. But seedless also...
Decreasing child labour through promoting decent rural employment | FAO
In Malawi, some 37 percent of children between the ages of 5 and 17 are involved in labour. Most of them work in agriculture, in...
Forest surveys provide baseline data for participation in REDD+ | FAO
Prior to 2006, Zambia had few reliable national estimates of its forests. But an integrated land-use assessment (ILUA I) from 2005-2008 provided the country with...
Post-rinderpest era but not “case closed”
Household income across Ethiopia rose by €38.1 million as a result of rinderpest control and eradication. Source link...