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Today, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to five farmers for outstanding achievements in the areas of horticulture (Japan), aquaculture (Lao PDR), small island agriculture (Maldives), forestry (Papua New Guinea) and rice farming (Thailand) during the Asia-Pacific observance of World Food Day in Bangkok. A model aquaculture farmer from Lao PDRMrs Souksakhone Somphone If you ask Souksakhone Somphone, a fish breeder from the Lao People’s Democratic Republic about...

Today, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to five farmers for outstanding achievements in the areas of horticulture (Japan), aquaculture (Lao PDR), small island agriculture (Maldives), forestry (Papua New Guinea) and rice farming (Thailand) during the Asia-Pacific observance of World Food Day in Bangkok. A model small island farmer from MaldivesMs Gameera Adam It would be hard to find a farmer more determined than Gameera Adam of Maldives....

Today, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to five farmers for outstanding achievements in the areas of horticulture (Japan), aquaculture (Lao PDR), small island agriculture (Maldives), forestry (Papua New Guinea) and rice farming (Thailand) during the Asia-Pacific observance of World Food Day in Bangkok. A model forester from Papua New GuineaMr Tafi Keus Raised in the village of Gogol Naru in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, well known...

Today, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to five farmers for outstanding achievements in the areas of horticulture (Japan), aquaculture (Lao PDR), small island agriculture (Maldives), forestry (Papua New Guinea) and rice farming (Thailand) during the Asia-Pacific observance of World Food Day in Bangkok. A model rice farmer from ThailandMs Papaise Mankatekit A humble rice farmer from central Thailand, Prapaise Mankatekit, never had much formal education. And yet,...

AFC and UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will take their joint fight against hunger to the southern Vietnamese city of Ho Chi Minh from 14 to 16 October during the AFC U-19 Women’s Championship 2011. The reigning AFC Women’s Player of the Year Kathryn Gill has also been invited as a Goodwill Ambassador for the ‘Asian Football against Hunger’ campaign. According to the latest statistics, 578 million people in Asia live...

This year sees the 66th 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. On Monday 17 October HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will preside over the 31st World Food Day (WFD) observance at the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. The Thai minister...

Urgent donor support is needed to help farmers in southern Pakistan hit by rain and floods that are worse than last year's devastating flooding, FAO said today. The Organization is seeking $18.9 million to address the most time-critical needs of millions of rural families in Sindh and Balochistan provinces. FAO's call for funds is part of the latest UN appeal for Pakistan, and aims to provide emergency livestock support and critical...

More than six million vulnerable people are facing food deficits this and next year as chronic food insecurity continues in DPR Korea, FAO said today at a press briefing in Bangkok. “Compared to 2009/2010, today’s food rations handed out by the government under the Public Distribution System have declined by 50 percent,” Hiroyuki Konuma pointed out during a press briefing in Bangkok today, upon his return from a visit to DPR...

Journalists and news organizations are invited to attend an FAO press conference at the FCCT on Thursday 15 September 2011 from 11:00 to 12:30 hours followed by lunch, as follows: 1. Gender in agriculture (11:00 to 12:00 hours)The State of Food and Agriculture 2010-11 (SOFA) addresses the theme "Women in agriculture: Closing the gender gap for development". The report signals a new way of thinking about women in agriculture. It includes a...

FAO today urged heightened readiness and surveillance against a possible major resurgence of the H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza amid signs that a mutant strain of the deadly Bird Flu virus is spreading in Asia and beyond, with unpredictable risks to human health. The H5N1 virus has infected 565 people since it first appeared in 2003, killing 331 of them, according to WHO figures. The latest death occurred earlier this month...