FAO News and Highlights 1997
- "Harvesting best
practices" - gender workshop held in Rome (23
December 1997)
- Women work together to
improve livelihoods in rural India (23 December
1997)
- New report on AIDS and
agriculture in West Africa (23 December 1997)
- "Dolly the Sheep" cloning
methods could hold key to breakthrough in conserving
animal genetic diversity (19 December 1997)
- Seeds
and tools rushed to flood-stricken farmers in Somalia and
Myanmar (15 December 1997)
- Latin
American and Caribbean countries count El Niño
losses and prepare for worse (15 December 1997)
- Digital
global climate maps available for downloading (15
December 1997)
- President
Carlos Menem of Argentina visits FAO (15 December
1997)
- Korea
DPR faces grim food outlook for 1998, works with FAO to
launch agricultural recovery (10 December 1997)
- FAO
gives honours for good work (10 December 1997)
- Biomass fuels and the
future: Interview (4 December 1997)
- Agriculture and climate
change: FAO's role (4 December 1997)
- Southern
Africa plans ahead for drought as report warns of
possible El Niño effect (28 November
1997)
- UN Convention to regulate
trade in hazardous pesticides (28 November 1997)
- FAO
plays key role in international effort to resettle
abandoned lands in Sri Lanka (21 November 1997)
- FAO
Conference ends: 1998-1999 programme approved, budget
frozen at US$650 million (19 November 1997)
- As
urban population and poverty soar in developing world,
FAO expands programme to improve food supply and
distribution (17 November 1997)
- FAO
Conference continues: Kazakhstan becomes Member Nation,
Canadian Agriculture Minister elected Chairman (8
November 1997)
- FAO
Conference opens in Rome to set budget and review
priorities (7 November 1997)
- FAO's EMPRES opens
dialogue with China on animal disease control (7
November 1997)
- Second
World Food Day Concert (4 November 1997)
- World
Forestry Congress approves 17-point declaration,
Indonesian forest fires heat up discussion and media
interest (30 October 1997)
- 1997
is the year of the reef (29 October 1997)
- Open air and open to all
- World Food Day Concerts in Rome and Havana (24
October 1997)
- First meeting of UNCCD
Parties sets up global system to fight
desertification (24 October 1997)
- Telefood
'97 reaches a global audience of 100 million (21
October 1997)
- World Food Day kicks off
campaign for public awareness and solidarity (15
October)
- World Rural Women's Day -
15th October (15 October)
- El Niño's impact
threatens food supply in Asia (14 October 1997)
- Eleventh World Forestry
Congress discusses the future of forests (14 October
1997)
- TeleFood: the first
global telecast dedicated to "Food for All" (8
October 1997)
- East African rinderpest
epidemic contained, but FAO urges countries on in the
fight to eradicate the cattle plague from the world by
2010 (3 October 1997)
- FAO responds to outbreak
of swine fever in Benin (26 September 1997)
- Farmers brace for extreme
weather conditions as El Niño effect hits Latin
America and Australia (22 September 1997)
- Parties to the United
Nations Convention to Combat Desertification to meet for
the first time in Rome (22 September 1997)
- UN food agencies alarmed
at catastrophic impact of drought and typhoon on crops in
Korea DPR (15 September 1997)
- International aid focus
shifts to long-term food security in Bosnia and
Herzegovina (3 September 1997)
- Project to restore Iraqi
honeybee population hit by predatory Asian mite Varroa
jacobsoni (31 July 1997)
- FAO's Special Programme
for Food Security works to double farmers' yields in
Eritrea (29 July 1997)
- Intensive surveillance
and vaccination campaign checks rinderpest epidemic in
East Africa (22 July 1997)
- Codex Commission makes
major decisions on food claims, hygiene, labelling at
Geneva meeting (17 July 1997)
- Indian TCDC expert
tackles Iranian rice problems (17 July 1997)
- New FAO publication aims
to bring small-scale irrigation to farmers in sub-Saharan
Africa (15 July 1997)
- Zambia battles insect
pest threatening staple food crops (11 July
1997)
- Virtual conferencing by
email: FAO emailing lists (8 July 1997)
- Pioneer project on
mushroom-growing for disabled people in Thailand - a
first for FAO (4 July 1997)
- New vaccine for East
Coast Fever saves farmers' cattle in Uganda (27 June
1997)
- Five years' work for a
greener world: UN reviews progress since Earth Summit
(24 June 1997)
- Study puts developing
countries in the fast lane of information highway (20
June 1997)
- FAO Council considers
Organization's Programme of Work and Budget for
1998-99 (16 June 1997)
- Big business and fast
food boost milk production in developing regions, says
FAO report (6 June 1997)
- European ban on
hormone-treated cattle rejected by WTO (6 June
1997)
- Meeting of Commission on
Genetic Resources winds up after nine days of tough
negotiations (30 May 1997)
- A modest grater means
safer and quicker cassava in Uganda (22 May
1997)
- Nations meet to discuss
utilization and conservation of genetic resources for the
farmers of the future (20 May 1997)
- Code of Practice for Good
Animal Feeding to counter health threat to humans from
contaminated meat (20 May 1997)
- Agriculture Committee
recommends measures to stimulate trade without spreading
plant pests (15 May 1997)
- Rice prices fall and
trade slows after bumper harvests (12 May 1997)
- Food Security Committee
plans monitoring of actions to achieve World Food Summit
goals (12 May 1997)
- Helping native Indian
bees fend off deadly virus and exotic Europeans (12
May 1997)
- Banana group meets as
markets expand and trade dispute takes centre stage
(5 May 1997)
- No link between sugar and
lifestyle diseases, experts conclude (5 May
1997)
- Training agricultural
experts in Eritrea is key to country's development
(30 April 1997)
- FAO appeals for funding
to boost agricultural production in Korea DPR (28
April 1997)
- Workshop aims to bring
small-scale irrigation to African farmers (25 April
1997)
- Street food: small
entrepreneurs, big business (21 April 1997)
- Committee on World Food
Security reports on follow-up to the World Food
Summit (15 April 1997)
- Food for the African
cities of tomorrow ( 14 April 1997)
- The revival of northern
Europe's rivers - fishing tips for elsewhere? (8
April 1997)
- Committee on Agriculture
reviews issues ranging from livestock management to plant
quarantine (4 April 1997)
- Soybean is a welcome
addition to diets in Malawi (4 April 1997)
- Forestry Committee puts
emphasis on sustainable forest management (24 March
1997)
- Fisheries Committee ends
session with calls to improve fishing management and
reduce overfishing (24 March 1997)
- Fisheries Committee
reviews state of world fisheries and aquaculture (17
March 1997)
- Interview with Moritaka
Hayashi (17 March 1997)
- More highlights from
SOFIA report (17 March 1997)
- FAO celebrates
International Women's Day with the release of Plan of
Action (13 March 1997)
- Interview with Marie
Randriamamonjy, Chief of Women in Development Service
(13 March 1997)
- Forestry Committee
reviews state of the world's forests (10 March
1997)
- Interview with David A.
Harcharik of FAO's Forestry Department (10 March
1997)
- Rinderpest emergency
declared in East Africa (25 February 1997)
- EMPRES:the mandate
(25 February 1997)
- Report on FAO reforms
released (19 February 1997)
- Contours of the post-Food
Summit strategy -- hunger mapping (13 February
1997)
- Viet Nam to cultivate the
art of rice growing in Senegal (5 February 1997)
- Water pollution and the
Aral Sea Basin (27 January 1997)
- Bad farming habits poison
waters (27 January 1997)
- Malawian fishermen patrol
their own slack waters (10 January 1997)
- Rwandan returnees put
pressure on frail food economy (8 January 1997)
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