FAO Initiative on Soaring Food Prices
 

High food prices are not only a threat for millions of poor people, they are also an opportunity for small farmers to increase production - but they need help.
 
Urgent action is needed on two fronts - making food accessible to the most vulnerable, and helping small producers raise their output and earn more.
 
FAO's Initiative on Soaring Food Prices has simple but effective goals: distribute seeds, fertilizer and other farming supplies to smallholder farmers... [more].

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18 September 2008
Hunger on the Rise

Rising prices have plunged an additional 75 million people below the hunger threshold, bringing the [...]

12 September 2008
Urgent UN appeal for Haiti

Hurricanes destroy crops and livelihoods in already struggling country.

12 September 2008
Lands of Opportunity

Agricultural output is expected to increase significantly in the Russian Federation and Ukraine [...]

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26 September 2008
FAO regional assessment mission, the Andes

FAO technical assessment to focus on crops native to the Andean nations of Bolivia, Ecuador and [...]

2 October 2008
Inter-agency assessment mission, Senegal

Gauging soaring prices and their affects with UN and development partners.

16 October 2008
World Food Day (16 October, Rome)

Among the themes: soaring food prices and food security in the current new context.

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3 October 2008
Video: Hunger in Haiti

Even before the summer's hurricanes, Haitians were already suffering pains from hunger they [...]

14 July 2008
FAO Launches Emergency Rice Programme in West Africa

Eleven Countries Take Immediate Steps to Revive Local Rice Production 25 June 2008, Rome - When one [...]

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