FAO Networks on Veterinary Public Health, Zoonoses, Feed & Food Safety

The FAO Networks on Veterinary Public Health, Zoonoses, Feed & Food Safety have been created to facilitate thematic discussions and collaboration, to disseminate relevant information and to identify issues to be addressed globally or at regional level.A global and five regional networks for Latin

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Peruvian Agricultural Sector Strengthened with Help from Nuclear Techniques

After more than 20 years of dedicated efforts that included application of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) as part of an integrated approach, the Animal and Plant Health Service (SENASA) of Peru has announced the successful eradication of two highly destructive insect pests from two key

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Teaching good eating habits to reduce malnutrition and diet-related diseases
FAO publishes planning guide for nutrition education in primary schools

Educating school children in healthy nutrition is one of the most effective strategies for overcoming malnutrition and chronic diet-related diseases but has been neglected far too long, FAO said today.

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Seeds of harmony
Harmonized seed laws: a key tool to improve farmers’ access to quality seed

Food security requires that farmers have access to good quality seed of a wide diversity of crops and varieties. To achieve that goal, FAO is supporting harmonization of seed rules and regulations in Africa and Central Asia in order to stimulate the development of a vibrant seed industry. In

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Global Agro-industries Forum -GAIF 2008
The Multimedia proceeding DVD of the Forum is now available

The Multimedia Proceeding DVD of the GAIF 2008 contains: the video-recording and power point presentations of all the plenary sessions and the video-recording of the round tables of the Forum, profiling the speakers and panellists; all the conference documents given to the delegates, in English,

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