News and Press Releases
Media Advisory Note: ADB/FAO/IFAD/WFP High Level Regional Consultation on Policies to Respond to High Food Prices
Bangkok, Thailand, 01-02 October 2012
27.09.2012 Bangkok, Thailand
More than 20 Asia-Pacific countries will meet at the invitation of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) to consider the need for swift, coordinated international action to prevent a return of the price shocks that affected tens of millions of people in the region in 2007-08. With fears...
Samoa has become the first country to put the new software Solutions for Open Land Administration (SOLA) into operation. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) developed the open source software to make computerised cadastre mapping and registration systems more affordable and sustainable for developing countries.
A cadastral map is a comprehensive register of a country's real property. It commonly includes details like land ownership, tenure, precise location, dimensions and area...
New ‘vision’ needed for Asian trawl fisheries - Asia Pacific Fishery Commission
22.09.2012 Danang, Viet Nam
The Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC) has called for more effective management of the trawl sector in Asia, which balances the need to sustain marine fishery ecosystems with the demand for feeds for aquaculture.
Meeting in Da Nang, Viet Nam, APFIC members recognized the challenges facing the region’s fisheries including overfishing in coastal areas particularly from trawling and the use of non-selective fishing gears. At the same time the need to sustain...
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and FAO have teamed up on a unique regional Pacific Island forestry project dubbed Forestry and Protected Areas Management (GEFPAS-FPAM) in Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and Niue. The project was launched at an inception workshop in Nadi, Fiji in July 2012 and is expected to enhance the livelihoods of island communities, strengthen biodiversity conservation and reduce forest and land degradation.
Rudolf Hahn an experienced forester is the...
APPPC Asia Regional Workshop for the Review of Draft International standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs)
17.09.2012 Gyeong Ju, Republic of Korea
The 13th APPPC Asia Regional Workshop for the Review of Draft International standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs) was convened from 3-7 September in Gyeong Ju, Republic of Korea. 25 experts from 14 APPPC member countries and Japan participated in the meeting.
APPPC has been playing a leading role in the regional contribution to development of international standards to prevent entry and spread of quarantine pests as the Asia Region initiated such...
World Food Day Poster Contest 2012
04.09.2012
We would like to draw your attention to the first-ever World Food Day International Poster Design Competition for children and young people. Contest rules and instructions – in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Italian – are published at http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/wfd-poster-contest/contest-home/en/#ad-image-0.
Young people from around the world, aged 5 to 17 are invited to enter their work in the competition. Deadline for submissions is 30 September 2012.
With the help of...
FAO and Nippon Foundation partner to help rural people with disabilities
03.09.2012 Bangkok
FAO and the Nippon Foundation are teaming up to broaden opportunities for people with disabilities (PWD). Nippon Foundation is a Japan-based leading international non-governmental organization mobilizing global contributions to realize basic human needs like food security. Under an agreement signed today at the FAO's Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, the two organizations will work together and with others to promote food security through agriculture, nutrition, livelihood improvements, and...
Wellington, New Zealand, 3 September 2012 - The 15th Annual Round-Table Meeting (RTM) on Agricultural Trade and Sustainable Development for Pacific Island Countries (PICs) opened here today at Kingsgate Hotel organized by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to help the islands increase their share of the growing regional and international trade in agriculture, fisheries, and forestry goods. The RTM will host a discussion about trade development initiatives and consider...
FAO lowers global rice forecast for 2012, but world production will still increase
Less rainfall in India chief cause of deteriorating prospects for paddy production
06.08.2012 Bangkok, Thailand
Below normal monsoon rains in India are the chief cause of a 7.8 million tonne downward revision in the forecast for global rice paddy production in 2012, although world output should still slightly surpass the excellent results achieved in 2011, according to the July 2012 issue of the Rice Market Monitor released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations today.
Global paddy production is expected to total 724.5...
More than 100 nations support new strategy on livestock disease
FAO/OIE Global Strategy to control Foot-and-Mouth Disease benefits farmers and consumers
29.06.2012 Bangkok, Thailand
Farmers and consumers stand to benefit from a new global strategy to control the spread of a deadly livestock disease that was endorsed today by representatives from more than 100 countries and international donors at a conference in Bangkok organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) with support from Thailand’s Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives.
More than 1...