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FAO Director-General meets with Uruguay’s Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining
20 September 2012, Rome - Uruguay's Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining of Uruguay, Roberto Kreimerman, met yesterday with FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva at the Organization's headquarters in Rome. During their meeting, Graziano da Silva and Kreimerman agreed on the need to address volatility of global agricultural prices. The Director-General noted the importance of existing international coordination mechanisms for the stabilization of commodity prices. For [...]
FAO, France call for increased short- and long-term support to vulnerable populations
18 September 2012, Paris/Rome - Better international coordination and increased information exchange are helping to ease tight markets, French President François Hollande and FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva agreed during discussions in Paris yesterday. "France shares FAO's and the UN's position that we are not in a food price crisis, but we need to remain vigilant," said Graziano da Silva. During the meeting, Graziano da Silva recognized the [...]
Increased role sought for world's religions in hunger fight
14 September 2012, Rome - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva has met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, spiritual leader of the Orthodox Christian Church, as part of an ongoing effort to enlist the world's major religions more closely in the fight against hunger. Patriarch Bartholomew told Graziano da Silva he is "very receptive" to the Director-General's invitation to play an increased role in [...]
Move should help ease tight world market
14 September 2012, Rome - Argentina will export an additional 2.75 million tonnes of maize from its 2011/12 crop, the country's Minister of Agriculture Norberto Yauhar confirmed here today. This will increase the amount of maize to be exported by Argentina from that harvest to 16.45 million tonnes, Yauhar told FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva when they met at FAO Headquarters. "The additional shipments, together with [...]
No food crisis, but vigilance needed
13 September 2012, Rome - The Director-General of FAO, José Graziano da Silva, and the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Pascal Lamy, agreed this week that currently high international food prices do not amount to a crisis, but that continued vigilance is needed given existing tight markets. At an hour-long meeting at FAO Headquarters, both Directors-General noted that the world is now better equipped to cope [...]
EBRD and FAO call on agribusiness to step up investment from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean
13 September 2012, Istanbul, London, Rome - The fight against hunger can only be won in partnership between governments, civil society and farmer organizations and the private sector, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today at a conference with decision-makers in agribusiness on ways to improve food security by investing in agriculture from Central Asia to North Africa. [...]
Figures “reassuring” but vigilance needed – FAO DG
6 September 2012, Rome - The FAO Food Price Index averaged 213 points in August 2012, unchanged from July.
Presenting the Index at a press conference at FAO headquarters in Rome, Director-General José Graziano da Silva said “This is reassuring. Although we should remain vigilant, current prices do not justify talk of a world food crisis. But the international community can and should move to calm markets [...]
UN Agencies appeal for swift, coordinated action
4 September 2012, Rome - Following is a joint statement on international food prices from the three Rome-based UN Agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP):
Tackling the root causes of high food prices and hunger [...]
UN hunger-fighting agency calls for unrestricted access
27 August 2012, Nairobi/Rome - A UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) staff member has been killed in an attack by an armed group in Southern Somalia, the hunger-fighting agency announced.
"Our deepest condolences go out to the family and colleagues of Mr. Yassin Mohamed Hassan, who was killed this morning in Merka," said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva.
"Our thoughts are also with staff members who [...]
New FAO framework launched
27 August 2012, Stockholm/Rome - Drought in some parts of the world has hurt global grain production and contributed to food price spikes virtually every other year since 2007, highlighting the need to transform the way water is used - and wasted - throughout the entire food chain. This is one of the key messages that FAO is transmitting this week at World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden. [...]
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