26 April 2018
Ha Noi, Viet Nam - Today, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Viet Nam Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS), on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), launched the report...
12 April 2018
Ha Noi, Viet Nam. National food safety issues took centre stage at an important quarterly meeting today hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The seventh Food Safety Working Group (FSWG) meeting...
Hanoi, Viet Nam - Natural disasters are costing farmers in the developing world billions of dollars each year, with drought emerging as the most destructive in a crowded field of threats that also includes floods, forest...
Hanoi, Viet Nam – While climate change and extreme weather events are impacting the environment in many ways, agriculture and food production in Asia and the Pacific are among those hardest hit and must be first in line to defend,...
07 March 2018
What is the avian influenza A (H7N9) virus?
Avian influenza (also known as ‘bird flu’) viruses normally circulate among birds. Although some avian H7 viruses (H7N2, H7N3 and H7N7) have occasionally been found to infect humans, no human...