NewsRoom

FAO :: Newsroom

Newsroom

LATEST FROM FAO
	World Food Day stresses climate change and bioenergy effects on poor 10 October 2008 - Climate change and bioenergy are the focus of this year’s World Food Day activities, expected to involve over 150 countries. FAO celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945. [more…]

Newsroom

Additional news stories (centre column)
New agreement FAO-Wageningen University and Research Centre 10 October 2008 – The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR) today signed an agreement to enhance their cooperation to promote and support education, research and technical and institutional capacities in developing countries. [more…]
US$50 billion lost by marine fishing each year 9 October 2008 - Economic losses in marine fisheries resulting from poor management, inefficiencies, and overfishing add up to a staggering US$50 billion per year, according to a new World Bank-FAO report released today. Taken over the last three decades, these losses total over $US2 trillion, a figure roughly equivalent to the GDP of Italy. [more…]
Easing organic agricultural trade 8 October 2008 - Organic farmers in developing countries will have greater access to world markets, thanks to two new tools that seek to ease trade in organic agricultural products. [more…]
Reviewing biofuel policies and subsidies 7 October 2008, Rome - Biofuel policies and subsidies should be urgently reviewed in order to preserve the goal of world food security, protect poor farmers, promote broad-based rural development and ensure environmental sustainability, FAO said today in a new edition of The State of Food and Agriculture. [more…]

FOCUS ON THE ISSUES

Photo: FAO The State of Food and Agriculture 2008
Close look at biofuels

Biofuel policies and subsidies should be reviewed in order to preserve world food security, protect poor farmers, promote broad-based rural development and ensure environmental sustainability, says FAO's latest SOFA report.

:: Read the report
:: Press release on SOFA 2008
:: Webcast of the SOFA launch
:: Order a hard-copy version of SOFA 2008

FAO IN THE FIELD
	Relaunching agriculture in war-torn DR Congo, one field at a time Five years after the Second Congo War officially came to an end, peace remains precarious. Hundreds of thousands of people are still homeless, and undernutrition affects 70 percent of the population. Still, increasing numbers Congolese farmers are trying to get back to their fields. FAO is there to help.
	A winner With food prices hitting record highs world wide, FAO is helping implement urgent measures to increase food production in the most affected countries. In Swaziland Input trade fairs enable poor farmers boost their crops.