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Biodiversity Conference: Droughts causing damage of 300 billion euros per year on Earth
Global droughts are causing an estimated €300 billion (HUF 124 trillion) in annual damages, according to a UN report presented on the second day of the 16th Biodiversity Conference (COP16)...
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Global taxation vision: a paradigm shift in the UN initiative
A significant change in the rules of international taxation is coming: the UN is working on a new tax framework agreement, which would offer solutions different from the current reforms...
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Hungary came with a high-level representation to the preparatory meeting of the COP29 Climate Conference in Baku
The United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Baku between November 11-22. The purpose of the COP conferences is to continue global negotiations on reducing greenhouse gas emissions,...
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World Food Day 2024 is approaching
The cooperation that spans more than 150 countries around the world is what makes World Food Day, which was born on Hungarian initiative, stand out from other UN days. The...
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More than charity – what is good CSR like?
According to the K&H sustainability index from the first half of 2024, both large and small companies have seen a decline in CSR engagement owing to the difficult business environment,...
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The FAO food price index remained largely unchanged in July
According to the Friday report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the world market index of food raw materials was unchanged for the second month...
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Worsening crises have kept the number of hungry people high for three years, warns the UN
Nearly 733 million people were hungry in 2023: one in eleven globally, and one in five in Africa, according to the global report entitled “The State of Food Security and...
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UN: ecommerce nowhere as established as in the Netherlands
No country in the world has as many internet users shopping online as the Netherlands, according to a new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)....
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FAO: this year’s world grain harvest could be at a record level
The world’s grain harvest could be a record 2.854 billion tons this year, according to the latest monthly forecast of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The...
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More scholarship students completed their agricultural studies in Hungary
The students of the scholarship program jointly supported by Hungary and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) were bid farewell. This year, the students graduated from food...
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Cooperation between the Ministry of Agriculture and the FAO continues to expand
Dr. Oszkár Ökrös, Deputy State Secretary, received Anping Ye, Director of South-South and Trilateral Cooperation (SSTC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), at the Ministry...
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International Tea Day is dedicated to women
Although the history of tea goes back more than 5,000 years, it has not gone out of fashion even today due to its health, cultural and socioeconomic effects. The cultivation...
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UN: worldwide food insecurity continued to increase last year
The insecurity of the food supply has increased further in 2023, according to the UN report published on Wednesday, according to which 282 million people are in urgent need of...
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The UN FAO urges more cooperation in the banana sector
The participants of the Fourth Banana World Forum will discuss the main challenges, such as climate change, the costs of fertilizers and transportation, and the TR4 disease. The fourth global...
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Hungarians do not really have a sweet tooth in international terms
In European and Central Asian countries, there are significant differences in daily sugar consumption per capita, and the Hungarian population is certainly not one of the big sugar consumers. Based...
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On the occasion of World Soil Day, the ecological research institute draws attention to the alarming rate of reduction of topsoil
The Ecological Agricultural Research Institute (ÖMKi) draws attention to the importance of healthy soils and the alarming rate of reduction of topsoil in its statement published on Tuesday on the...
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The Hódmezővásárhely soil profile became the Soil of the Year
This year, the soil profile in Hódmezővásárhely was awarded the title Soil of Hungary based on a public vote organized by the Hungarian Soil Science Society, Zsolt Feldman, the state...
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Alig mérik károsanyag-kibocsátásukat az agrárcégek
Az agrárcégek jelenlegi fenntarthatósági gyakorlatáról képet adó K&H fenntarthatósági index szerint a szektor tájékozott az EU karbonkibocsátási elvárásaival kapcsolatban – 90%-uk hallott már a célkitűzésekről, 72%-uk pedig tisztában is van...
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COP28 opened in Dubai with food system transformation on the menu
The United Nations climate summit in Dubai just running will be the first to dedicate a full day to exploring climate action across food, agriculture, and water. The United Arab...
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Today is World Food Day
In order to maintain water security and safe food production, our goal is the sustainable development of agriculture, which predicts the expected effects of increasingly extreme weather conditions and keeps...
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On the way to a sustainable food industry
By 2030, global food waste per capita at the retail and consumer levels must be halved, as well as food loss along the production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses,...
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It is justified to expand the joint scholarship program of the government and FAO
Oszkár Ökrös, Deputy Secretary of State for International Relations at the Ministry of Agriculture, and Beth Bechdolt, Deputy Director General of FAO, discussed the expansion of the joint scholarship program...
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Quality aquaculture is an important pillar of rural development
The development of domestic aquaculture also brings with it the development of local hospitality and gastronomy, it contributes greatly to the maintenance of ecosystems, and thus to the European greening...
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FAO: the UN World Food Day challenge is here
Water is food, development, energy and life. Yet nowadays, too many people lack it, while others take the availability of water for sure. Therefore, the central theme of World Food...
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According to the United States, there is no real alternative to Black Sea grain transport
The United States supports efforts to renew Black Sea grain shipments because there is no real alternative to the route, the United States ambassador to the United Nations said on...
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SPAR Hungary has published its first Sustainability Report
For many years, SPAR Hungary has been striving to reduce the burden on the environment as much as possible during its commercial operations and production processes, to protect the health...
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Ursula Von der Leyen: I strongly condemn Russia’s cancellation of the Black Sea grain agreement
I strongly condemn Russia’s cynical move to terminate the Black Sea grain initiative despite the efforts of the UN and Turkey, wrote Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European...
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122 million more people pushed into hunger since 2019 due to multiple crises, reveals UN report
Over 122 million more people are facing hunger in the world since 2019 due to the pandemic and repeated weather shocks and conflicts, including the war in Ukraine, according to...
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FAO Food Price Index continued declining in June
The benchmark index of international food commodity prices declined again in June, led by price decreases for all major cereals and most types of vegetable oils, the Food and Agriculture...
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FAO and partner agencies tasked with leading $115 million Clean and Healthy Oceans Program
Az ENSZ Élelmezésügyi és Mezőgazdasági Szervezete (FAO) négy partnerszervezettel együtt valósíthatják meg a „Tiszta és egészséges óceánok integrált programot”. A kezdeményezés mintegy 115 millió dollár támogatást csatornáz az érintett területekre,...
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