Stagnating productivity growth of wheat, one of the two most important staple foods in Asia, threatens to create a food security crisis in the...
Bangkok, Thailand, 26 Apr 2012
Dr. Hoang Van Nam, Director General of Viet Nam's Department of Animal Health welcomed more than 20 participants to EAHMI's second Tripartite Review Meeting...
Hanoi, Viet Nam, 25 Feb 2012
A Regional Workshop for the Global Review of Phytosanitary Surveillance in the Context of the IPC Standard was held in Chiang Rai, Thailand from ...
Chiang Rai, Thailand, 03 Feb 2012
An FAO-funded emergency project will complement Thai government’s efforts to support flood-affected farmers in eight provinces to save their farm animals and go back...
Bangkok, 27 Dec 2011
With training on rice intensification and the provision of seed and fertilizers, a smallholder farmer from Kailali district in far-western Nepal, has more than...
Kathmandu, Nepal, 23 Dec 2011
At the end of a two days FAO meeting, experts and key stakeholders coming from over 30 Asian countries agreed on the steps necessary...
Bangkok, 08 Dec 2011
With ever more people to feed in the future, there is no alternative but to increase agricultural productivity in order to meet global food,...
Bangkok, 07 Dec 2011
Despite significant progress and increased prosperity, Asia has made insufficient progress in reducing hunger and malnutrition. While the number of poor has fallen dramatically—from...
Bangkok, Thailand, 06 Dec 2011
Notwithstanding extensive floods in Asia since August, FAO has raised its July forecast of global paddy production in 2011 by 2.4 million tonnes to...
Bangkok, Thailand, 11 Nov 2011
FAO today urged heightened readiness and surveillance against a possible major resurgence of the H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza amid signs that a mutant...
Rome, 29 Aug 2011
