News
14 October 2018
The Business Observer spoke to three key FAO officials - FAO Representative, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Nina Brandstrup, Gender Officer, FAO Regional Office, Asia and the Pacific, Clara Park and Gender and Development Consultant, FAO Social Policies and Rural Institutions (ESP) Division, Rome, Francesca Distefano - on the launch...
The Business Observer spoke to three key FAO officials - FAO Representative, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Nina Brandstrup, Gender Officer, FAO Regional Office, Asia and the Pacific, Clara Park and Gender and Development Consultant, FAO Social Policies and Rural Institutions (ESP) Division, Rome, Francesca Distefano - on the launch...
21 September 2018
Colombo, Sri Lanka – An extensive gender gap in the food and agriculture sector prevails in Sri Lanka despite women constituting a significant portion of the agricultural labour force, according to the Country Gender Assessment of the Agriculture and Rural Sector in Sri Lanka released by the Food and Agriculture...
Colombo, Sri Lanka – An extensive gender gap in the food and agriculture sector prevails in Sri Lanka despite women constituting a significant portion of the agricultural labour force, according to the Country Gender Assessment of the Agriculture and Rural Sector in Sri Lanka released by the Food and Agriculture...
12 August 2018
In developing countries some 2.5 billion people are forced to rely on biomass—fuelwood, charcoal and animal dung—to meet their energy needs. These people are energy poor, in that they have an absence of choice in the energy they access or use in their daily lives. Therefore, biomass plays an enormously...
In developing countries some 2.5 billion people are forced to rely on biomass—fuelwood, charcoal and animal dung—to meet their energy needs. These people are energy poor, in that they have an absence of choice in the energy they access or use in their daily lives. Therefore, biomass plays an enormously...
16 July 2018
Rome, Italy - Senior government officials from around the world today gathered at FAO to focus on ways to step up global efforts in the forestry sector aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change. "Urgent action is needed to sustain and preserve the planet's forests...
Rome, Italy - Senior government officials from around the world today gathered at FAO to focus on ways to step up global efforts in the forestry sector aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change. "Urgent action is needed to sustain and preserve the planet's forests...
25 June 2018
Currently, the most advanced research vessel in the world, the Dr Fridtjof Nansen arrived in Colombo to conduct surveys on fisheries resources and the marine ecosystem. The survey, starting in Colombo on 24 June 2018 will cover the continental shelf and upper slope of Sri Lanka until 16 July 2018....
Currently, the most advanced research vessel in the world, the Dr Fridtjof Nansen arrived in Colombo to conduct surveys on fisheries resources and the marine ecosystem. The survey, starting in Colombo on 24 June 2018 will cover the continental shelf and upper slope of Sri Lanka until 16 July 2018....
