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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) - 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)