The Very Future of Third World Agriculture Is at Stake

Food Minister K V Thomas' visit to Rome to attend an international conference of UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation will also have religious significance. The minister is expected to meet the current Pope of the Catholic Church, Francis, who was ...

The campaign aims to engage industry in tackling food wastage around the world. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) £605bn worth of food is currently lost or wasted each year about seven times the amount spent on development ...

The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations will turn the spotlight on small farmers its 2014, which it will observe as International Year of Family Farming. The aim is to raise the profile of family/smallholder farming by ...

Where: Brussels, Belgium Topic: Agriculture, fisheries and food Organiser: European Commission Add to your calendar (iCal) This conference, organised by the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European ...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) forecasts that the Philippines rice import will rise 20 percent to 1.2 million tonnes next year due to damage caused by typhoon Haiyan. The country's rice output is predicted at 18 million ...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has called for strong governmental support to make solar technology accessible and cheap for the populace, in the face of rising demand for power in the country. Electricity demand ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Tuesday urged governments to invest in programmes that help poor families keep small dairy livestock. In a statement on a book, entitled: 'Milk and Dairy Products in Human Nutrition', it stated that ...

K C Raghu, managing director, Pristine Organics, said that Indian farms lands were the victims of the medicalisation of agriculture, and the extensive use of chemicals and fertilisers are proving to be a bane in food produce. From the use of early ...

India remained firm on its stance as World Trade Organization negotiations reached the third day in Bali. As Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma ruled out any possibility of a compromise, whispers were already being heard of a possible collapse of the talks. Edited excerpts from the minister’s press conference, which invited admiration as well as sharp criticism: India has exceeded the de minimis requirements of the Uruguay round. I would emphatically say we are not in breach. ...