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FAO: innovation in agriculture

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

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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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FAO: food prices on five-year low

International prices for agricultural commodities continued to decline in April and abundant inventories are poised to offset any pressure from the slight reduction in global harvests expected this year. Worldwide...

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The world's rice production is increasing

This year, the global rice production will rise slightly, but the international rice trade will decline, due to the existing high stocks. According to the latest report of the UN...

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The FAO reviews the phytosanitary trade standards

FAO estimates that between 20 and 40 percent of global crop yields are reduced each year due to the damage wrought by plant pests and diseases. “Once a pest becomes...

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Natural disasters caused 70 billion USD damage to agriculture between 2003 and 2013

About the quarter of the damages caused by natural disasters affect the agricultural sector in developing countries – the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states in its recent...

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Decline in global food prices

The price of sugar tops the further decline in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO Food Price Index declined to a 55-month low in February, dropping 1.0 percent...

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