FAO in Indonesia

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10 March 2020
Muhammad Awalu Fatah is a 16 year old from Mojokerto district, East Java who participated in a global Student Poster Contest organized by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the 2019 World Food Day. The contest was launched under the theme” Our Actions Are Our...
03 March 2020
 On Tuesday in Jakarta, the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) launched the new national “Harvest Strategy” for blue swimming crabs, snappers and groupers to improve fisheries management. Minister Edhy Prabowo and the Director General of Capture Fisheries, M. Zulficar Mochtar also inaugurated the operation of Fisheries Management Units...
10 February 2020
Three out of five Emerging/Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) are zoonotic, which means they can be transmitted from animals to humans. Indonesia, as a country with rapid population growth, high globalization and rich biodiversity is regarded as one of the EID and zoonoses hotspots in Asia. In the past few decades,...
10 February 2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today called for an acceleration in improvements to agriclturural data gathering and monitoring to ensure the targets set out in the Sustainable Development Goals are accurately reported in the world’s biggest region – Asia and the Pacific. 
05 February 2020
Statistics Indonesia  and the Ministry of Agriculture, with support from The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) worked together towards an integrated approach to agriculture and food security statistics to reach Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in Indonesia, particularly Goal 2 aimed to End Hunger. The commitment was reiterated...