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FAO joins hands with Pacific Islands’ organizations to build more sustainable and resilient food systems for all
08.03.2023 Nadi/Apia
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), to enhance their collaboration to build more sustainable and resilient food systems for the benefit of all in the Pacific Islands.
The agreement’s objectives aim at promoting sustainable natural resources utilization and management, biodiversity mainstreaming, ecosystem services, and environment planning and assessment and environmental...
FAO Deputy Director-General visits fishing families in Fiji to view successes in sustainable fishing practices
07.03.2023 Ba, Fiji
The Deputy Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Laurent Thomas, today visited the Natawarau fishing community in Ba, Fiji to present fishing families with Fish Aggregating Devices (known as FADs) used to enhance nearshore fisheries. The FAD materials were presented to the Natawarau Fisherman Association (NFA) and they visited a community benefiting from FAD deployment sites.
The sites are maintained in partnership with the FAO-led...
UN’s FAO and the GOP join forces to assist flood-weary farmers in the country, thanks to ADB & Japan - USD 5 million grant
28.02.2023 Islamabad
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Pakistan today signed a USD 5 million funding agreement for a project through which FAO will contribute to the Government’s efforts to recover from the devastating floods that hit the country and Balochistan in particular, in 2022.
The collaboration between FAO and the Balochistan Agriculture & Cooperatives Department (BACD) represents the first time that FAO has received...
Luang Namtha Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), kicked off a two-week training course on animal quarantine management in Sing District, a border area between Lao People’s Democratic Republic and China. The training course aimed to accelerate safer cattle trade between the two countries and improve cattle export to China.
The activity is...
As the pace of urbanization quickens in Asia-Pacific, so too does the threat of urban food insecurity – UN agencies report
UN joint Asia-Pacific press release for launch of SOFI 2022
24.01.2023 Bangkok
Asia’s cities are growing at such a fast pace that nearly 55 percent of the region’s enormous population is expected to reside in urban areas by 2030, and that will have equally enormous consequences for urban food security and nutrition, according to the main findings of a new report by four United Nations agencies.
But the threat is not only a future concern, the results are being felt now, according to...
FAO’s support for Pakistan: from immediate response to resilience building
The FAO Director-General addresses the United Nations conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan
09.01.2023 Geneva
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will continue to play a leading role in transforming Pakistan’s agrifood systems to make them more efficient, inclusive, sustainable and resilient, a challenge that has gained in urgency following recent floods that have devastated the country’s agriculture sector, Director-General QU Dongyu told a UN conference.
Today’s International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan in Geneva, co-hosted by the Government of Pakistan and the UN,...
FAO receives additional funding from the Government of Japan to boost food security for vulnerable Afghan households
13.12.2022 Kabul, Afghanistan:
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has today received notice of additional funding of more than USD 1.85 million from the Government of Japan to improve access and availability of nutritious food for vulnerable and food-insecure smallholder households in Afghanistan as well as protecting their livestock.
The resources will fund a 12-month emergency project beginning January 2023. It will support 42 700 people from Kapisa province (Hissa-e-Awali Kohistan...
IUCN and FAO to lead flagship forest programme in Southeast Asia
IUCN and FAO are selected as lead agencies for the Global Environment Facility’s Indo-Malay Critical Forest Biome Integrated Programme
06.12.2022 Bangkok
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will lead the Indo-Malaya Critical Forest Biome Integrated Program of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This flagship GEF programme will support countries in conserving globally critical intact forest landscapes through interventions inside and outside protected areas.
The Indo-Malaya Critical Forest Biome Integrated Program will be open to Bhutan, Camboida, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia,...
Huge stockpile of toxic pesticide DDT bound for Europe after being left in a Bangladesh city centre for nearly four decades
30.11.2022 Chattogram, Bangladesh
What is thought to be the world’s largest remaining stockpile of the now banned pesticide Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), left in the heart of Bangladesh’s second biggest city for 37 years, is set to finally leave for France for incineration at a specialist facility.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has led the complex international operation to remove the DDT and to decontaminate the storage site in the port...