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Monday 15 October 2012, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Noumea – ‘Prevention is better than cure’ is the main message emerging from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/SPC Regional Workshop on Aquatic Biosecurity and Aquaculture Data and Statistics in the Pacific Region held in Nadi, Fiji, last week.
Representatives from the fisheries and the quarantine departments of 21 Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) met with experts from FAO and...
FAO celebrates World Food Day
MDG One, the hunger reduction goal, is now within our reach
16.10.2012 Bangkok, Thailand
Marking World Food Day this year, FAO’s Assistant Director-General for Asia and the Pacific Hiroyuki Konuma said, “I am happy to announce that based on figures revised after incorporating the latest available data, the number of chronically hungry people in the world is 870 million, down from earlier estimates of 925 million.” “But,” Konuma warned, “it still means one person in every eight goes hungry.”
The proportion of chronic hunger in...
The theme of this year’s World Food Day is Agricultural cooperatives: key to feeding the world .This theme was chosen to highlight the many, concrete ways in which agricultural cooperatives and producer organizations help to provide food security, generate employment, and lift people out of poverty. For FAO and its partners, agricultural cooperatives are natural allies in the fight against hunger and extreme poverty. Their importance has also been acknowledged...
FAO honours model farmer from Malaysia
15.10.2012 Bangkok, Thailand
Today Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to four Asian farmers from Malaysia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka and Thailand for their outstanding achievements in agriculture and food production.
Model farmer and frozen food producer from Malaysia, Misripah Marjan
When Misripah Marjan finished secondary school in Selangor, Malaysia, she longed to go to university. But her farmer parents did not have the money to send her. Misripah may have lacked...
FAO honours model farmer from Mongolia
15.10.2012 Bangkok, Thailand
Today Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to four Asian farmers from Malaysia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka and Thailand for their outstanding achievements in agriculture and food production.
A model poultry farmer from Mongolia, Mr Bold Jigjid
Growing up in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Baataar, Bold Jigjid never dreamed of becoming a farmer. His parents were workers in a garment factory, and as a boy he imagined piloting...
FAO honours model farmer from Sri Lanka
15.10.2012 Bangkok, Thailand
Today Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to four Asian farmers from Malaysia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka and Thailand for their outstanding achievements in agriculture and food production.
A model organic farmer and founder of Lanka Farmers Forum, from Sri Lanka, Pathiraja Wijekoon Bandara
Pathiraja Wijekoon Bandara, a 58-year-old from Kandy district in Sri Lanka is a farmer by profession. But he’s a warrior in spirit.Starting about two decades...
FAO honours model farmer from Thailand
15.10.2012 Bangkok, Thailand
Today Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented FAO awards to four Asian farmers from Malaysia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka and Thailand for their outstanding achievements in agriculture and food production.
Model organic farmer from Thailand, Sumalee Thongteera
Ask Sumalee Thongteera a question about the farming cooperative she manages in Korat province in northeastern Thailand, and she takes out her iPad. Miss Sumalee admits that sometimes she likes to browse the latest...
Aquaculture sector can meet Asia’s increasing fish demand without compromising sustainability
11.10.2012 Bangkok, Thailand
A regional consultation by national officials and international experts on sustainable intensification of aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific today adopted a new framework to sustainable intensify farm raised fish, or aquaculture.
FAO, the Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC) and the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) jointly convened the consultation as a regional initiative to support the sustainable intensification of aquaculture in the Asian region. The consultative workshop concluded that intensified aquaculture...
FAO staff wishes His Majesty the King well
11.10.2012 Bangkok, Thailand
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FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific, Hiroyuki Konuma, together with other staff from FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, extended their greetings and good wishes to His Majesty the King at Siriraj Hospital. From left to right the FAO well-wishers are: Monpilai Youyen, Kanyarat Singhaphan, Chananut Auisui, Pinit Korsieporn (Regional Programme Coordinator), Man Ho So (Deputy Regional Representative), Hiroyuki Konuma (FAO Assistant Director-General...
FAO helping officials and stakeholders acquire tools to manage aquaculture industry that holds both economic promise and threats to the environment
Nuku'alofa, Tonga, 10 October 2012 – With the Kingdom of Tonga’s aquaculture industry presenting new challenges to its environment, government officials and other stakeholders are gathering in Nuku'alofa this week to acquire the latest tools to conduct aquatic biosecurity risk assessments at a workshop organized by the Food and Agriculture...