FAO in Viet Nam
Moc Chau district, Son la province. FAO in Viet Nam and partners are accelerating implementation...
Viet Nam Department of Animal Health (DAH), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the...
Hanoi, Viet Nam. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the...

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...

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,...


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...