يمكن أن يساهم علف الحيوان في صحة الحيوان وفي الرفق به وفي تحقيق سلامة الأغذية والتخفيف من حدة التأثيرات السلبية لقطاع الثروة الحيوانية على البيئة. وتسعى منظمة "الفاو" جاهدة لتعزيز الحوار بين العاملين في قطاع الأعلاف والسلاسل الغذائية من أجل ضمان سلامة الأغذية وللإقرار بأنّ سلامة...

Food irradiation could play a critical role in ensuring safe, wholesome and high quality foods for consumers, especially in dealing with virulent microbial strains that have withstood other more conventional treatments. This latest E. coli outbreak, centred in Northern Germany,...

Knowledge of the role of fatty acids in determining health and nutritional well-being has expanded dramatically in the past 15 years. To review the major developments in the field of fats and fatty acids in human nutrition, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...

One hundred profiles are now available in the FAO Country Pasture Profile database. Developed to make available basic information about the pasture and forage resources of countries, each profile provides a broad overview of relevant general, topographical, climatic and...

FAO collaborated with the World Bank and the College of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences, University of Ghana, to organize a workshop in Accra, Ghana from 31 May - 3 June 2011 on the subject of post-harvest losses (PHL) reduction. The workshop, which attracted 30 agricultural...