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19 Dec 2007
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Arsenic threat in rice
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Reducing arsenic levels in rice through improved irrigation practices
Rome – High levels of arsenic in rice could be reduced by applying improved irrigation management practices in Asia, FAO said today in a new report entitled Remediation of Arsenic for Agriculture Sustainability, Food Security and Health in Bangladesh.
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18 Dec 2007
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New study reveals potential benefits of under-utilized indigenous foods in Micronesia
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Apia – A new study indicates the potential benefits under-utilized indigenous crops could provide on nutrition-related problems in Micronesia. Concern over nutrition security in this area is high, as traditional plant foods in the diet are being replaced by imported foods of lower nutritional content.
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3 Dec 2007
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Released: new IMARK module on facilitating ICT use as a communications media
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The latest IMARK e-learning module looks at information and communication technologies that support networking in developing countries.
On behalf of the Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) Steering Group, FAO is pleased to announce the release of a new IMARK module entitled "Networking in support of development", the fifth in a series...
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23 Nov 2007
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Bangladesh: agricultural sector devastated in cyclone-hit areas
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FAO receives $3 million for emergency assistance
Rome – The agriculture, livestock and fisheries sectors in southern Bangladesh have suffered enormous losses and large-scale assistance is urgently needed to address the damage caused by Cyclone Sidr, FAO said today.
The cyclone has affected over 6.
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18 Oct 2007
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FAO receives US$1.9 million from USAID to fight avian influenza in Cambodia
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Phnom Penh – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has received an additional USD1.9 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to control and prevent the spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza in Cambodia.
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17 Oct 2007
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The right to food – FAO honours model farmers from five countries in Asia-Pacific
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Bangkok – Today, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to five Asian farmers for outstanding achievements in the areas of horticulture (Bangladesh), aquaculture (Cambodia), agribusiness (Mongolia), home gardening (Samoa) and community forestry (Thailand).
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17 Oct 2007
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The right to food – FAO honours model farmer from Bangladesh
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Today, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to five Asian farmers for outstanding achievements. Representing South Asia, Md. Abdul Kalam Azad from Bangladesh was honoured as a model horticulture farmer.
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17 Oct 2007
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The right to food – FAO honours female model farmer from Cambodia
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Today, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to five Asian farmers for outstanding achievements. Representing Southeast Asia, Nget Sareng from Cambodia was honoured as a model aquaculture farmer.
Mrs Nget Sareng of the village of Trapaing Trach in Cambodia is a woman with little formal education and yet she’s...
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17 Oct 2007
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The right to food – FAO honours model farmer from Samoa
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Today, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to five Asian farmers for outstanding achievements. Representing the Pacific, Ponifasio Ricky Westerlund from Samoa was honoured as a model home gardening farmer.
Ricky Westerlund’s father told his son not to become a farmer.
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17 Oct 2007
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The right to food – FAO honours female model farmer from Thailand
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Today, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to five Asian farmers for outstanding achievements. Pramuan Charoenying from Buriram in Thailand was honoured as a model community forestry farmer.
Like many Thais, when Mrs Pramuan Charoenying and her family began farming they mainly grew rice.
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17 Oct 2007
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The right to food – FAO honours model farmer from Mongolia
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Today, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to five Asian farmers for outstanding achievements. Representing East Asia, Ochirbat Ganzorig from Mongolia was honoured as a model agribusiness farmer.
Not long ago, Ochirbat Ganzorig and his family were simple herders on the steppes of Mongolia.
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16 Oct 2007
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Globalization altering the forest landscape in Asia-Pacific
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Chiang Mai/Bangkok – Asian countries will need to make dramatic adjustments in how they manage forests in the face of rapid globalization according to leading UN forestry experts. The world’s forests are linked by issues of climate change, trade, tourism and cross-border movement of pests and diseases in ways that seemed unimaginable just a few...
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14 Oct 2007
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2007 World Food Day: The right to food
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Next week sees the 62nd anniversary of FAO’s foundation in Quebec, Canada on 16 October 1945. It will be marked in Bangkok by an important event to which the media are invited. Arrangements for the media are described below.
Wednesday 17 October – 62nd Anniversary of FAO and 27th World Food Day (WFD) Asia-Pacific observance presided over by...
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10 Oct 2007
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Are you concerned about the future of forests in the Asia-Pacific region?
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Chiang Mai, 17 October 2007
Recent and unprecedented economic and social change in the Asia-Pacific region has significantly altered the way forests are regarded and used.
A major international FAO conference will prepare the way for the second Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study by bringing together diverse stakeholders and...
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28 Sep 2007
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Launch of an interactive web-based platform in support of agriculture and rural development
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Today FAO announced the launch of a unique interactive web-based platform focusing on the role that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can have in supporting agriculture and rural development.
The online platform, www.e-agriculture.
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25 Sep 2007
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Cambodia: educating remote communities about the dangers of bird flu
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FAO and Medicam will organize a community forum in Mondulkiri near the border with Vietnam on Thursday, 27 September 2007 to educate remote communities about avian influenza and how they can protect their poultry and their families from contracting the deadly virus.
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21 Sep 2007
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Capacity building on WTO in the Pacific - Agriculture, fishery and trade officials brought up to date
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Wellington -- Urgent and significant adjustments in agriculture and fisheries are needed in Pacific island countries to withstand challenges posed by increased globalization of trade, an FAO statement said today.
In addition to assessing trade dynamics in the agricultural and fisheries sectors, Pacific countries also require new policy and...
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6 Sep 2007
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FAO Goodwill Ambassador Roberto Baggio visits Laos
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European football is immensely popular in Asia, where its players are regarded as super stars.
Capitalizing on this, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) invited its Goodwill Ambassador - retired Italian star Roberto Baggio - to Laos to promote calls for hunger and poverty reduction worlwide.
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31 Aug 2007
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Reforms in Thai agriculture and rural sectors needed for further poverty reduction
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Bangkok -- Thailand’ s aim to further reduce the share of poverty to below four percent of the total population by 2015 is an achievable but daunting task, an FAO statement said today.
Reviewing economic progress in the country over the past two decades, FAO re-affirmed the nation’s remarkable progress in meeting most of the UN millennium...
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30 Aug 2007
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Press briefing on the role of wild birds in the spread of bird flu
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Wild birds are known to be the natural reservoirs of avian influenza viruses. However, their role in the spread and ecology of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) remains largely unknown.
Scientists are still debating whether wild birds are spreading the disease globally, or are a victim of spill-over of the disease from the...
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21 Aug 2007
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FAO says pig diseases in Viet Nam can be controlled
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Agency calls for a comprehensive animal health programme to help small farmers
Hanoi – A team of veterinary experts sent to Viet Nam by the FAO/OIE Crisis Management Centre – Animal Health - to investigate recent deaths among pigs say that it appears that there are a number of swine diseases that may be interacting to cause the unusual signs...
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17 Aug 2007
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Rice “Escapes” Brown Plant Hoppers in Mekong Delta
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Good crops on MARD-FAO demonstration sites in Vietnam without the use of pesticide
Hanoi – Vice Minister Bui Ba Bong attended a meeting of experts and farmers today in Long An to see and discuss the results of an FAO-Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) project to control the brown plant hopper pest or BPH and associated virus...
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10 Aug 2007
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Better nutrition for ethnic minorities in northern Thailand
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Mae Hong Son, (Food and Agriculture Organization) – Food production and processing capacities of farmers’ groups in Mae Hong Son province is boosted with support from FAO aimed at improved rural nutrition and income.
Around 140 members of farmers and women’s groups in four districts of the Mae Hong Son province - Khun Yuan, Pie, Mae La Nai...
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7 Aug 2007
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Climate change likely to increase risk of hunger
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Industrialized countries could gain in production potential, developing countries may lose
Chennai/New Delhi - Climate change is likely to undermine food production in the developing world, while industrialized countries could gain in production potential, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said today in a speech at the M.S.
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6 Aug 2007
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Cereals production doubles in Afghanistan
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Afghanis near cereals self-sufficiency
Rome - Afghanistan’s cereals production has doubled in the six years since the ouster of the Taliban regime, according to FAO’s latest production figures.
Despite the continuing tense security environment, FAO forecasts the country’s cereals output will reach 4.
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3 Aug 2007
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FAO releases new paper on multilinguality - an important factor in international knowledge management
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FAO has recently added the following publication "Requirements for the treatment of multilinguality in ontologies within FAO" to the Agricultural Information and Knowledge Management Papers series.
International organizations like FAO are intrinsically multilingual.
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26 Jul 2007
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Food insecurity worsens in Nepal - An estimated 42 out of 75 districts are reported to be food deficient
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Kathmandu - A series of natural disasters in 2006 and 2007 have severely impacted on crop production in Nepal, placing a significant number of people at risk of food insecurity, according to the joint report released this week by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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26 Jul 2007
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Tapping local knowledge in Indonesia to battle avian influenza
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Villagers are key allies in virus detection and control
Jakarta – Involving villagers in the fight against bird flu is important in Indonesia as the disease continues to ravage the archipelago killing millions of poultry and sporadically also humans.
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19 Jul 2007
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Joining forces in Asia to control animal diseases
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Second regional steering committee meeting for Asia and the Pacific of the Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADs)
Hosted by the government of Thailand, the second regional steering committee meeting for Asia and the Pacific of the Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary...
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13 Jul 2007
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Regional review on direct farm marketing systems published
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By invitation from the Editor of the Stewart Postharvest Review, the Marketing Officer (Quality Management) of FAO's Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific wrote a review on direct farm marketing systems that has just been published in the June 2007 edition of this British electronic publication.
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4 Jul 2007
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Locusts could reach India and Pakistan
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Swarms expected to cross Indian Ocean
Rome – Desert Locust swarms from Ethiopia and northern Somalia are expected to cross the Indian Ocean and could reach India and Pakistan in the next days, FAO said today. This potentially dangerous situation should be closely monitored in both countries.
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3 Jul 2007
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The future of Asia-Pacific forests - second conference announcement
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The future of forests in Asia and the Pacific - Outlook for 2020 - is an international conference organized by FAO from 16 to 18 October in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
This second announcement is calling for papers, posters and participants.
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2 Jul 2007
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Water for development and ecosystems: e-conference (29 June to 9 July)
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The Asia Pacific Water Forum (APWM) is the major high-level water forum for decision makers in Asia and the Pacific. It is organizing the 1st Asia Pacfic Water Summit in Aoda Prefecture, Japan, in December 2007.
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and FAO are co-leaders for the theme "Water for development and ecosystems" and are preparing a...
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25 Jun 2007
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Rural poor and biofuel cooperative enterprises, Pattaya, 5 and 6 July
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Asian agricultural cooperative leaders, senior government officials, biofuel experts and representatives of United Nations agencies will meet in Pattaya, Thailand on 5 and 6 July 2007 to discuss how agricultural cooperatives can involve the rural poor in viable and sustainable biofuel cooperative enterprise development.
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22 Jun 2007
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One fifth of Timor population needs food assistance, UN report says
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Bangkok, Thailand – Persistent drought and plagues of locusts ravaged Timor-Leste’s harvest in 2007, cutting production of major crops by as much as 30 per cent and leaving one-fifth of the population in need of food assistance, says a report issued today by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN World Food...
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7 Jun 2007
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Update on recent bird flu outbreaks in Viet Nam
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Key findings from a joint government of Viet Nam/FAO field investigation – conducted in Nam Dinh province – suggest that HPAI outbreaks currently occurring at this unexpected time of the year are due to recent increased numbers of grazing ducks directly associated with the rice harvest – many of which did not receive H5 vaccine.
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29 May 2007
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Risk of rising sea levels in the Pacific
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FAO calls for greater attention to mitigation and adaptation measures.
Majuro - Fifteen years after the Earth Summit, the scientific community concedes that global warming and the risk of rising sea levels will probably have major consequences for tens of thousand of inhabitants of Pacific atolls, FAO said today.
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28 May 2007
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Fish feed scare highlights challenges of aquaculture boom
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FAO conference eyeballs the future of the 'blue revolution' - safety issues in spotlight
Rome/Bangkok - The recent discovery that feed used on some U.S. fish farms contained the toxin melamine highlights the challenges facing the booming aquaculture sector, which today supplies some 44% of all fish consumed worldwide, according to FAO.
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21 May 2007
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Bird flu outbreaks in Bangladesh require long-term strategic response - Situation remains serious – FAO will increase assistance
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The bird flu situation in Bangladesh remains serious and the country will have to engage in a long-term strategic campaign against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in order to get the spreading H5N1 virus under control, FAO said today.
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17 May 2007
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Invitation to journalists to attend opening ceremony of FAO South West Pacific Ministers of Agriculture meeting
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Media advisory
Majuro/Apia - The seventh session of the FAO South West Pacific Ministers of Agriculture meeting will be held at the Marshall Islands Resort Hotel, in Majuro from 29 to 31 May 2007. This major biennial event is convened by FAO to review and make recommendations on key food and agricultural issues affecting the Pacific region.
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10 May 2007
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American Red Cross and FAO team up to restore fisheries and aquaculture in tsunami-affected communities
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Longer-term planning, sustainability key
Jakarta - The American Red Cross and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have announced the launch of a new partnership to support the recovery of fishing communities in Indonesia's Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province affected by the 2004 tsunami.
The US $7.
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9 May 2007
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Viral disease suspected in recent pig deaths in China
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Bangkok – On 8 May the National Chief Vetinarian Officer of China - Jin Youling, Director-General of the Veterinary Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China - officially informed the CVO of FAO that in early May 2007 an epidemic of pigs was found in Laosi town, Yuncheng district in Guangdong province.
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2 May 2007
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FAO’s capacity-building initiatives in accessing, documenting, communicating and managing agricultural information
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New information and communication technologies (ICT) and the growing wealth of digital information have the potential to improve access to and benefits from development activities for the rural poor, as well as facilitate policy-making.
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1 May 2007
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The future of forests in Asia and the Pacific (Outlook for 2020)
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16 to 18 October 2007, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Recent and unprecedented economic and social change in the Asia-Pacific region has significantly altered the way forests are regarded and used. It is in acknowledgement of a new kind of society-forest dynamic in the region that the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission, in partnership with member...
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20 Apr 2007
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FAO partnership working to establish guidelines for certification of farmed fish
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FAO recently began collaborating with the non-profit Network for Aquaculture Centres in the Asia Pacific (NACA) to hold consultations with a large group of certification bodies, producer groups, processors and consumer organizations in order to draw up global guidelines on how aquaculture certification standards ought to be established and...
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18 Apr 2007
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Thailand to get best out of FAO assistance
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Thailand and FAO are jointly formulating a national medium-term priority framework (NMTPF) - a planning and management tool which outlines how FAO can best assist the country in meeting its development priorities.
“The Government is both the owner and leader of its development efforts, including programmes funded through external partners,...
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4 Apr 2007
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Limited danger of new Foot-and-Mouth Disease outbreaks in North Korea
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North Korea should remain on alert
Rome – The recent outbreak of the highly contagious Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was probably a single case and appears to be under control, FAO and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said today after the return of a one-week mission to the country.
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3 Apr 2007
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FAO to organize AGROVOC E-Conference
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The AGROVOC Thesaurus was developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Commission of the European Communities (CEC), in the early 1980s. AGROVOC is the foundation that underpins the development of the Concept Server (CS) project.
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16 Mar 2007
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Italy provides additional $2.5 million grant for food security in 14 Pacific island countries
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Apia - - - With generous financing of a $2.5 million grant provided by Italy, FAO's flagship regional approach to food security in Pacific Island countries will be continued until the end of 2008, a statement said today.
A three-year $4.
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15 Mar 2007
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FAO and OIE send mission to North Korea
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Country faces first foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in almost 50 years
Bangkok, 15 March 2007 (Food and Agriculture Organization) – In response to a request from the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, FAO and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) are sending a mission to investigate the first outbreak of...
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14 Mar 2007
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Myanmar responded quickly to bird flu outbreaks - Source of infection remains unclear
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Myanmar has achieved substantial progress in the fight against bird flu through early detection and reporting as well as quick and effective responses during last month’s HPAI outbreaks. However, the country still needs more support to improve its capacity to deal with the disease in the long term, FAO said in a statement today.
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14 Mar 2007
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Mongolian milk for health and wealth
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When a country makes the dramatic shift from a state-run economy to one driven by market forces, the transformation is often jarring. Jobs can disappear, populations become displaced and entire industries collapse.
During the 1990s, Mongolia underwent such a shift.
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19 Feb 2007
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Improving access to agricultural information - metadata and ontologies
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The Seventh Agricultural Ontology Services Workshop (AOS) on the "Ontology-based knowledge discovery: Using metadata and ontologies for improving access to agricultural information" was organized by Food and Agriculture Organization in collaboration with the Fifth International Conference of the Asian Federation for Information Technology in...
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15 Feb 2007
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FAO update on HPAI in Viet Nam
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Hanoi -- On 13 February 2007, the National Steering Committee for Avian Influenza announced that no new outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza had been reported in the country in the previous 21 days.
However, the risk of recurrence of the disease is still high, particularly with high consumption and frequent movement of poultry during Tet (Lunar...
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12 Feb 2007
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New information management tool released for use, comments
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The newly released "Metamaker" is a tool designed to create Dublin Core and AgMES compliant metadata. The tool allows the user to create metadata from scratch using a simple web form and save it in different formats (such as HTML, XHTML, XML, RDF or AGRIS AP).
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9 Feb 2007
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High level of arsenic in groundwater of 12 Asian countries
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The continuous use of arsenic irrigation water in agriculture in Asian countries has potentially serious long-term consequences for the environment, the livelihood of farmers and food security, an FAO report on Bangladesh concludes.
There is now sufficient scientific evidence that arsenic in irrigation water can result in land degradation and...
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6 Feb 2007
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Queen Sofia of Spain visits post-tsunami fisheries rehabilitation project
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Spain is financing several FAO initiatives in Aceh
Banda Aceh -- Queen Sofia of Spain visited FAO fisheries rehabilitation projects in a coastal area of the Indonesian province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam that was devastated by the December 2004 tsunami, leaving tens of thousands homeless with huge losses to livelihoods.
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30 Jan 2007
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FAO says poultry still safe to eat - Statement follows Jakarta ban
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Jakarta – The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today that chicken, duck and quail, staples of the Indonesian diet, are safe to eat, if derived from healthy birds and properly cooked. The FAO concern comes as people stop eating poultry following a ban on raising poultry in Jakarta announced by the Governor of the province.
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23 Jan 2007
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New bird flu outbreaks require strong vigilance
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Virus continues to persist in East Asia and some countries in Africa
Bangkok - FAO today expressed concern about the new flare-ups of avian influenza outbreaks in China, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Nigeria, South Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam but stressed that the number of outbreaks in the first weeks of 2007 has been significantly lower than...
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19 Jan 2007
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FAO press conference on the re-emergence of bird flu in Asia
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Media advisory
Journalists and news organizations are invited to an FAO press conference on the re-emergence of bird flu in Asia on Tuesday 23 January at 11:30 hours at the Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel. FAO speakers will be Hiroyuki Konuma, deputy regional representative for Asia and the Pacific, Laurence Gleeson, regional manager of FAO’s...
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18 Jan 2007
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China to send agricultural experts to Gabon
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Will help small-scale farmers in agriculture, livestock and fisheries
Rome - China will send 44 agricultural experts and technicians to Gabon to help small-scale farmers there improve crop and animal production, fish farming and processing of agricultural products, under an agreement signed today between the two countries and FAO.
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5 Jan 2007
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AGROVOC is now available in Lao language!
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The Lao AGROVOC is based on FAO AGROVOC which is the common thesaurus used by FAO for agriculture and forestry terminology. It contains more than 15 000 agricultural related terms.
The National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI), part of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Lao PDR, decided to translate the AGROVOC terms...
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