FAO expects rice production to rise by 1.8 percent in 2008
2 April 2008 - World rice production is expected to increase in 2008 by 12 million tonnes or 1.8 percent, assuming normal weather conditions. Production increases would ease the current very tight supply situation in key rice producing countries. [ more... ]

Miriam Makeba visits rape survivors in Congo (DR)
13 March 2008 - Singer and activist Miriam Makeba says women survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo face a “triple tragedy” of physical, psychological and social damage, undermining the country’s attempts to improve living conditions. [ more... ]

Climate change a further challenge for gender equity
10 March 2008 - The effect of climate change on gender equality and women´s empowerment could be profound, said Iceland’s Minister of the Environment, Ms Thorunn Sveinbjarnardóttir, at an FAO event marking International Women’s Day. [ more... ]

Significant increase in world cereal production forecast for 2008, but prices remain high
13 February 2008 -- Early prospects point to the possibility of a significant increase in world cereal production in 2008, but international prices of most cereals remain at record high levels and some are still on the increase, FAO said today. [ more... ]

Tea prices to maintain upward trend in 2008
14 February 2008 – In 2008, world tea prices are expected to maintain their upward trend as a result of a tight supply on the world market exacerbated by a projected 10 percent decrease in Kenyan production. [ more... ]

Climate change: focussing on how the vulnerable can cope
7 December 2007 - Strategies to prepare for escalating impacts of climate variability that do not take into account the cultural and socio-economic differences among men and women will simply fall short of addressing the needs of those likely to be damaged. [ more... ]

Despite record 2007 production cereal prices remain high
6 December 2007 - FAO’s latest forecast puts world cereal production in 2007 at 2 101 million tonnes, with most of the increase in coarse grains, especially maize in the United States. [ more... ]

Farm schools for vulnerable rural youth on the rise in Africa
28 November 2007 - Farm schools for vulnerable children affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic are becoming increasingly important in sub-Saharan Africa. [ more... ]

The State of Food and Agriculture
Presentation to the FAO Conference, Thirty-fourth Session [ more... ]

FAO forecasts continued high cereal prices
7 November 2007 - Global cereal prices to remain high for the coming year warns the latest Food Outlook issued today by FAO. [ more... ]

Paying farmers to protect the environment?
15 November 2007 - Carefully targeted payments to farmers could serve as an approach to protect the environment and to address growing concerns about climate change, biodiversity loss and water supply. [ more... ]

Food security and trade in the Caribbean
26 October 2007 - Special assistance to Caribbean countries to promote food security and take advantage of trade liberalization is provided under an innovative FAO project funded by the Government of Italy. [ more... ]

Diouf: It is time to implement the right to food
18 October 2007 – "The world has the means to implement the right to food. The time has come to take action," declared Dr. Jacques Diouf today at the United Nations in New York. [ more... ]

FAO insists on food as a human right
16 October 2007 - FAO today called for a renewed commitment to guarantee the right to food for the world's hundreds of millions of hungry people. [ more... ]

More than 150 countries to mark World Food Day
10 October 2007 – More than 150 countries will observe World Food Day this year, organizing special events, conferences and contests on “The Right to Food”. [ more... ]

Wheat prices hit record-high levels
5 October 2007 - International wheat prices have increased sharply since June, hitting record highs in September in response to tightening world supplies, historically low levels of stocks and sustained demand. [ more... ]

Severe drought drastically reduces crop production in Moldova
25 September 2007 -- Severe drought has drastically reduced crop yields in Moldova, driving up food prices and reducing access to food for poor households, according to a new FAO/WFP report. [ more... ]

Crop prospects mixed for low-income food-deficit countries in 2007
17 July 2007 – Slowdown in growth of cereal production in low-income food-deficit countries, coupled with prospects for continued high international prices, could result in a tighter food supply situation for these countries in the coming year. [ more... ]

Food insecurity worsens in Nepal
26 July 2007 - A series of natural disasters in 2006 and 2007 have severely impacted on crop production in Nepal, placing a significant number of people at risk of food insecurity, according to a new FAO/WFP report. [ more... ]

Growing bio-fuel demand underpinning higher agriculture prices
4 July 2007 - Increased demand for bio-fuels is causing fundamental changes to agricultural markets, according to a joint OECD-FAO report. [ more... ]

Food import bills reach a record high
7 June 2007 - Global food import bills are increasing, partly due to soaring demand for biofuels, according to FAO’s latest Food Outlook report. [ more... ]

New web site offers tools for implementation of right to food
15 February 2007 – FAO today announced the launch of an interactive web site providing practical information for policy-makers, legal practitioners and others on the right to food. [ more... ]

World hunger increasing
30 October 2006 - The number of hungry people in the world is currently increasing at the rate of four million a year and the "race against hunger" is in danger of being lost. [ more... ]

Will we meet the hunger goal?
26 October 2006, Rome – Ten years after the World Food Summit, global representatives from over 120 countries will meet in Rome next week to review just how far the world has come towards meeting the 2015 goal of reducing by half the number of hungry people in the world, then estimated at 800 million. [ more... ]