Thua Thien Hue Province, 11 Apr 2012 -- The renovation of the Thuan An Port in Viet Nam’s Thua Thien Hue which started today will benefit fishers, traders and consumers in the province by improving the hygiene of fisheries products and enhancing the potential for more value-added marketing activities.
The renovation is being funded by the Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme (RFLP), an initiative funded by Spain and implemented by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
Thuan An is the [ more...]
15 Mar 2012 -- Hanoi, Vietnam – Vowing to take a new approach to ending hunger in the face of soaring food prices and scarcer resources, the Director-General of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) called for sustainable increases in agricultural production and fairer and more inclusive food and agricultural systems, during a regional conference in Hanoi on Thursday.Food prices, already persistently high and volatile, are forecast to rise even [ more...]
13 Mar 2012 -- Hanoi, Vietnam – With food prices twice as high as a decade ago, feeding nearly 600 million people suffering from hunger and malnutrition in the Asia-Pacific region is becoming more difficult, according to the regional representative of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, which opened a major regional conference in Hanoi today.
“Eradicating hunger has become more complex and challenging in this region,’’ Hiroyuki Konuma, Assistant Director-General and [ more...]
13 Mar 2012 -- Hanoi, Vietnam -- Policy makers meeting this week in Hanoi began debating Tuesday a paradigm shift to producing food that they believe can prevent a looming crisis that could cripple the region’s development and the turn the Asian Century into an era of hunger and undernourishment. “We have to move beyond the Green Revolution to an Evergreen Revolution, by adopting an approach called Save and Grow,” said Hiroyuki Konuma, regional assistant [ more...]
09 Mar 2012 -- The relationship between rising and volatile food prices, food insecurity and hunger, and diminishing natural resources will be the focus of agriculture ministers, senior officials and civil society representatives from 40 countries in the Asia-Pacific region at a major conference in Hanoi next week organized by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO).The world food price index re-bounded with one percent last month, its first increase [ more...]
20 Feb 2012 -- The 31st session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC) will be held in Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, from 12 to 16 March 2012, hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
The five day conference will be held at the Melia Hanoi Hotel.
Ministers and senior government officials from 44 FAO member countries are invited to the meeting. Representatives from international non-governmental organizations, [ more...]
17 Jan 2012 -- 16 January 2012, Rome. FAO and the European Commission announced today a new €5.3 million project aimed at helping Malawi, Vietnam and Zambia transition to a "climate-smart" approach to agriculture.
Agriculture — and the communities who depend on it for their livelihoods and food security — are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. At the same time agriculture, as a significant producer of greenhouse gases, contributes to global warming.
"Climate-smart agriculture" is an [ more...]
Hanoi, Vietnam, 09 Nov 2011 -- Hanoi, 5 November 2011: After 25 years of “Doi Moi”, Vietnam has experienced significant and profound changes with the gradual economic development. From a poor country, Vietnam has not only ensured the national food security but also risen to become a world leading rice exporter. The country has moved beyond the poverty threshold and has been entering into a new stage of development with the goal of industrialization and modernization. [ more...]
02 Nov 2011 -- The signing ceremony of the project “Establishment of rice seed production hub in Hoa Tien commune, Hoa Van district, Da Nang City” between the People’s committee of Danang City and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was held at 4:00 PM, November 2nd, 2011.
The project “Establishment of rice seed production hub in Hoa Tien commune, Hoa Van district, Da Nang City” is financial support by the [ more...]
Thong Nhat Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam,, 16 Oct 2011 -- The Asian Football against Hunger Campaign was held at the Thong Nhat Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Sunday 16 October, before the final match of the AFC U-19 Women’s Championship coinciding with the World Food Day.The competition's players including both finalists Japan and Vietnam promoted the ‘578 Message’ which signified the 578 million people in poverty in Asia which was the focus of the joint-cooperation between the AFC [ more...]
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