Somalia top priority in U.N. agriculture organisation funding ...

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) would provide urgent assistance to Cape Verde where food security and livelihoods are at risk following a sharp fall in crop production due to drought, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here."The ...

THE United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) food price index released on Thursday fell to its lowest value in almost five years — indicating lower global food prices. This is good news for a food-importing country such as SA, ...

The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) last Friday (27 February) signed a US$342,000 Sustainable Aquaculture for Food Security, Livelihood and Nutrition project at the Youyi building in ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization's headquarters in Rome, Italy. 25 February 2015, Rome A newly released report highlights the depth and breadth of the transformational changes taking place across the Organization. The 2014 Multilateral ...

By Ted Thornhill for MailOnline View comments This week the Food and Agriculture Organisation warned that many people in Somalia are 'on the edge'. Despite knowing the hardships people there face everyday, government soldiers destroyed ...

Guwahati, March 4: Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Nidhi (RGVN), a non-profit organisation, has introduced a few agricultural technologies, used in Bangladesh, in rural areas of six districts in Assam with the aim of helping around 5,000 farmers. Since ...

Millet Fest-2015, organised by the department of agriculture, Government of Telangana at the People's Plaza, Hyderabad was widely welcomed by health-conscious people as well as the general public in large numbers. Prof. Jayashankar Telangana ...

Coimbatore :- The Food Processing Industry sector in India is one of the largest in terms of production, consumption, export and growth prospects. To address various issues pertaining to this sector, the Ministry of Food Processing Industries ...

The 70th report on the "Situation of Agricultural Households in India", released by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) on Saturday, reveals that much is wrong with Indian farmers' economic status, despite several programmes being run by the government to raise their incomes. Over half of all farm households are heavily indebted; 26 per cent of them owe money to moneylenders who could be charging interest rates over 20 per cent. In fact wage employment, and not farming, is the ...