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Fusarium wilt: a destructive banana disease
14 April 2014, Rome
-- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is warning countries to step up monitoring, reporting and prevention of one of the world’s most destructive banana diseases, Fusarium wilt. The disease has recently spread from Asia to Africa and the Middle East for the first time. The Fusarium TR4 race of the disease, which is also known as Panama disease, is posing a serious threat to production and export of the popular fruit, with serious repercussions to the banana value chain and the livelihoods, FAO said in an information brief. Banana is the eighth (...)
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Agriculture's greenhouse gas emissions
11 April 2014, Rome
-- New FAO estimates of greenhouse gas data show that emissions from agriculture, forestry and fisheries have nearly doubled over the past fifty years and could increase an additional 30 percent by 2050, without greater efforts to reduce them. Agricultural emissions from crop and livestock production grew from 4.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2 eq) in 2001 to over 5.3 billion tonnes in 2011, a 14 percent increase. The increase occurred mainly in developing countries, due to an expansion of total agricultural outputs. The new FAO data also provide a detailed view of (...)
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CRISIS
The deepening crisis in the Central African Republic is devastating people’s ability to support themselves. A United Nations report says immediate support for food and livelihoods is needed to meet what it calls an: “acute and complex emergency”. The Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization's Emergency and Rehabilitation Division Dominique Burgeon shares his thoughts.
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Agriculture & Greenhouse Gas emissions
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) publishes new data on agriculture and greenhouse gas emi...
11/04/2014
Central African Republic: new FAO/WFP report
About 1.6 million people directly affected by the crisis are in need of urgent food. (...)
07/04/2014
Regional Conference for Europe: Ministerial session
Ministerial session calls for private and public sector action – and consumer behaviour change. (...)
03/04/2014
Rise in FAO Food Price Index
The Index saw prices increase in all groups except dairy. (...)
03/04/2014
2014 International Year of Family Farming
The United Nations named 2014 the International Year of Family Farming. The goal throughout the year...
03/04/2014
FAO Climate change in Tanzania
How the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Tanzania is helping people ...
28/03/2014
