Safety at sea improved significantly for the fishers in Tokelau with more than 40 sea safety grab bags provided by FAO.

Director-General provides the FAO Council with updates on delivery and proposals for the way forward

evision of food based dietary guidelines that are specific to the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is being undertaken by the RMI Government and FAO after laying dormant for over two decades.

Two staff from the RMI Ministry of Health and Human Services (RMI MOHHS) documented a bri...

The community of Bunlap, which a Kustomary Area in South Pentecost, Vanuatu is building its capacity and diversity in agroforestry production thanks to the Integrated Sustainable land and Coastal Management (ISLCM)/FAO project.

In the second phase of the Tropical Cyclone (TC) Harold Liv...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to plague economies and societies across the globe, the Scientific Research Organisation of Samoa (SROS) maintains its commitment to strengthening and enhancing its contributions to Samoa’s nation-wide response.

SROS’s COVID-19 diagnostic testing and r...

FAO to deliver emergency and resilience assistance to 168 000 vulnerable livestock owners and farmers

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today officially launched operations at its Partnership and Liaison Office in the Republic of Korea in a move that will accelerate knowledge sharing, innovation and agricultural transformation to improve diets and livelihoods ac...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today formally joined the Sustainable Rice Platform, a global multi‐stakeholder alliance of more than 100 institutional members from the public, private, research, civil society and financial sectors.

The Sustainable Rice...

Up to 80 farmers will directly benefit from using combine rice harvesters handed over at a ceremony held at Madhuvani Rakiraki last week. Funded by the European Union (EU), the three combine rice harvesters will be used by the Madhuvani Rice Cluster, Bar...

Villagers work together to pool resources and address longstanding challenges

More disruption expected as supply and consumption affected by lockdowns

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The global manager of the Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Wantanee Kalpravidh, was today awarded an honorary plaque from the Swine Raisers Association of Thailand.

The honorary pla...

Stronger Together: FAO, OIE and WHO commit to joint multi-sectoral efforts in Asia and the Pacific

Consumer interest in edible insects has been rising in recent years and that has driven a traditional, but local, industry in Southeast Asia to expand to meet increasing global demand.

To ensure the rapidly increasing supply can adequately respond to international food safety concerns (...

16 countries will benefit from projects designed to conserve biodiversity, enhance ecosystem services, combat land degradation, and preserve natural resources on land and water

Enhancing food security, nutrition and resilience has never been more important in the small island nation of Kiribati than now – in the face of Covid 19 and its associated health and economic impacts.  With funding from UN COVID-19 Response and Recovery Multi-Partner Trust Fund<...

Brussels Dialogue looked at mitigating COVID-19 impacts on island states

World Soil Day event celebrated the unsung “food heroes”

The Vanuatu Fisheries Department (VFD) hosted a programme retreat from September 28-October 2, 2020 on the island of Espiritu Santo at Turtle Bay Lodge. The 40 participants included VFD directors, managers and senior staff; provincial fisheries dev...