Tag "FAO"
The third of the world's population could be obese by 2030
Date: 2016-09-27 11:15:46
Poor diet poses a threat to the health of half of the world's population – warns an independent committee of nutrition experts. By 2030 a third of the planet's population...
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Too many antibiotics are dangerous for the food industry
Date: 2016-09-15 11:40:39
It is a huge threat in agriculture and in the food industry that disease-causing microbes become resistant to antibiotics – agrarszektor.hu wrote. Therefore, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
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Growing global food prices
Date: 2016-09-09 11:58:41
Food prices in August rose to their highest level in 15 months as advancing dairy and palm oil markets outweighed weakness in grains, which have been depressed by prospects of...
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A slight decrease occured in global food prices in July
Date: 2016-08-08 11:40:16
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations announced (FAO), on Thursday, said food prices have seen a slight decrease in July, noting that the decline was the result of...
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FAO: cattle disease spreads fast
Date: 2016-07-25 11:17:26
The lumpy skin disease among cattle is spreading very fast. The disease in recent weeks has reached Serbia, Albania and Montenegro, and can even appear in Hungary – the UN...
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FAO Report: dry areas of the Earth should be handled with special attention
Date: 2016-07-20 11:20:19
Special attention should be paid to the dry areas of the world, because climate change will further strengthen the negative effects of droughts, desertification and land degradation – the report...
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Global consumption of fish is over 20 kg per capita per year
Date: 2016-07-08 11:35:30
Global per capita fish consumption has risen to above 20 kilograms a year for the first time, thanks to stronger aquaculture supply and firm demand, record hauls for some key...
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OECD-FAO: medium-term outlook for agriculture between 2016-2025
Date: 2016-07-05 11:42:59
The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2016-2025, published today, is a collaborative effort between the two organizations. It brings together the commodity, policy and country expertise of both organizations and input from...
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Global food demand may decline
Date: 2016-07-04 11:42:54
Global demand for food is growing slower over the next decade, while thanks to the increase of the agricultural productivity and the slight increase of agricultural areas the needs to...
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The FAO and ILO against child labor in agriculture
Date: 2016-06-13 11:00:18
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) offered help to agricultural experts to help with the problem of child labor. Young girl is transporting...
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World Milk Day in Kaposvár
Date: 2016-06-03 11:03:13
On the ocassion of the World Milk Day schoolchildren and preschoolers were awaited to Kaposvár’s Kossuth Square with colorful programs. The International Dairy Federation declared the last Tuesday of May...
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Food prices increased further in May
Date: 2016-06-02 11:40:47
FAO’s world food price index, which measures monthly changes for a basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy products, meat and sugar, rose 2.1 percent in May to average 155.8 points. Rising...
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The FAO announces an international drawing and video contest
Date: 2016-05-26 11:16:39
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)announced a new global video and poster contest. The FAO is asking the world’s children to help it highlight how climate change is making...
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Modern technology against ghost fishing
Date: 2016-05-09 11:00:33
Modern technology could solve or mitigate the consequences of the so-called ghost fishing. Because of the phenomenon hundreds of thousands of tonnes of plastic waste can be found in seas....
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Regional Conference is held once every two years
Date: 2016-05-06 10:40:37
Regional Conferences are an official forum where Ministers of Agriculture and other high officials from all Member States in the region meet to debate challenges related to food and agriculture,...
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FAO: Robust outlook for global cereal supplies in 2016
Date: 2016-04-07 10:08:23
World cereal production in 2016 is set to amount to 2 521 million tonnes, just 0.2 percent off last year's large output and the third-highest global performance on record, according...
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FAO food report
Date: 2016-03-24 10:33:47
Last year the world’s countries set a schedule for sustainable development in the next 15 years and agreed to end famine by 2030. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the...
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FAO food report schedules for sustainable development
Date: 2016-03-21 11:11:14
Last year the world’s countries set a schedule for sustainable development in the next 15 years and agreed to end famine by 2030. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the...
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FAO: innovation in agriculture
Date: 2016-01-22 11:35:43
UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO), practical recommendations have become available on the world's most important grains: (corn, rice, wheat) that are responsible for 42% of the calories and for...
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FAO: facts of the world food situation
Date: 2016-01-06 11:59:44
The Agricultural Outlook, 2015-2024, is a collaborative effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It brings...
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Food safety with a little help from Mars
Date: 2015-12-18 10:56:45
Mars and FAO have signed a cooperation agreement: the two parties aim at calling attention to the importance of food safety in developing countries. Mars vice president Dave Crean told...
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The Food Bank, the UN FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture offers a solution for hunger
Date: 2015-10-16 11:18:36
Following the international community's agreement that hunger should be eliminated by 2030, the FAO, the Food Bank and the Ministry of Agriculture on the occasion of the World Food Day...
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International conference on the role of rural women in the economy
Date: 2015-10-15 11:07:23
It is an important task worldwide to enable women to contribute to production, to social stability and to tradition preservation – Vladimir Rakhmanin, the European and Central Asian regional representative...
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The Future of Food photo exhibition opens in Budapest
Date: 2015-10-12 11:02:18
‘The Future of FOOD’ looks at food from all angles and on all continents. It includes portraits of food producers – a potato farmer in the Peruvian Andes, a cabbage...
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FAO: global food prices are low
Date: 2015-10-08 11:57:13
Agricultural commodities are going through a period of lower and less volatile prices, according to the FAO Food Outlook released today. After several dramatic upward price spikes from 2007 through...
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The European Commission on Agriculture is holding its meeting in Budapest
Date: 2015-09-23 11:30:01
Land and soil degradation, nutritional problems, innovative solutions in the field of family farming and social protection are just some of the highlighted themes that will be discussed at the...
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FAO: Food prices are falling
Date: 2015-09-10 11:50:11
In August, almost all basic food raw materials became cheaper on the world market, so the FAO food price index decreased by 5.2 percent in August, compared to July, which...
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42 percent of the Hungarian families throw out food regularly
Date: 2015-08-12 11:30:38
42 percent of the Hungarian families regularly throw out food, in 8 out of 10 cases due to change in quality, in one-fifth of the cases, due to the expiration...
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FAO: food prices on a six-year low
Date: 2015-08-07 11:50:05
Food prices fell to the lowest in almost six years, led by plentiful supplies of dairy products and palm and soyabean oil, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation....
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FAO: the growing income levels in developing countries also affect eating habits
Date: 2015-07-01 11:54:26
People in developing countries can expect the growth of population, income levels, food consumption as well as the rate of urbanization to increase. All of these factors will have an...
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