FAO in Indonesia

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04 October 2019
High level delegation from Mozambique visits Indonesia to learn about Indonesia’s experience to sustain the forests which involves forest communities and private sectors. Forestry Officials from Mozambique participated in five days study tour in Indonesia to learn about the country’s experience in sustaining the forest. The study tour was led by...
28 August 2019
FAO with support from the Provincial Maritime and Fisheries Agency, Palu City and Donggala Regency, today (28/8) distributed nets and cooler boxes to 2,650 fishing households spread across 69 villages and 15 sub-districts in Palu and Donggala.  Director General of Capture Fisheries and the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP)...
10 August 2019
  In 2017, Jenni Sulistiani, a successful poultry farmer in Lampung Timur District, Lampung, had to close her 25-year-old broiler-farming business due to bankruptcy of unfair competition from the commercial poultry industry. “Over 100 farmers under my mentorship had to experience the hit,” said Jenni. She was depressed and stressed following...
17 July 2019
An insect pest that can infest and damage or destroy fields of corn and other crops, literally overnight, is migrating across Asia to the alarm of smallholder farmers whose livelihoods are threatened, but the damage can be limited, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said. The so-called Fall Armyworm...
15 July 2019
An estimated 820 million people did not have enough to eat in 2018, up from 811 million in the previous year, which is the third year of increase in a row.