A transition is needed to more sustainable food systems，Vincent Martin, FAO representative in China and DPR Korea, stressed in his opening remarks to an inception workshop of the Technical Cooperation...

FAO Representative in China Vincent Martin called for accurate and reliable statistical data for monitoring progress in eradicating hunger. He made the call during his opening remarks at the International...

FAO Deputy Director-General Daniel J. Gustafson was interviewed by China Investment to talk about poverty reduction. Flollowing content was provided by China Investment. China Investment : Poverty reduction is a global issue...

FAO Representative in China Vincent Martin was interviewed by China Investment to talk about a wide range of topics including poverty reduction, South-South Cooperation and Belt & Road Innitiative, etc....

Recently Tsinghua University, one of China’s top-tier Universities located in Beijing, has launched an 8-weeks graduate course of Service Design on the subject of rural development and technology-based poverty reduction...

Beijing - China Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Vincent Martin, has called for increased collaboration between FAO, member governments, and other development partners...

Beijing - A launching meeting of the Ninth Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Conference was held at Renmin University. More than 100 government leaders, experts, scholars, journalists and farmers participated in...

Kunming, Yunnan Province - A Seminar on Farm Field School by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Poverty Reduction was held on December 13 in Kunming, the capital city of China’s...

The 4th Conference on China-Africa Agricultural Cooperation (CAACC) was held recently in Haikou, Hainan province in China.  The conference aimed to put into practice the consensus during the Johannesburg Summit...

Shanghai - On 8 December, more than 170 entrepreneurs, investors, experts, food lovers and media reporters who shared interest in scientific innovation in food technology gathered in co-working space to...

Five traditional farming systems in China, Korea and Spain have been designated by FAO as "Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems". These include two sites in Spain which are the first such...

At the invitation of the Forestry Department of Hunan Province (FDHP), Vincent Martin, Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in China and two other...

This week is Antibiotic Awareness Week, and its main message is that people should seek expert advice before using antimicrobials. We have all seen it, and many of us have even...

In order to reduce China's food waste and loss, the SAVE FOOD conference was held in China on 8 November, 2017. More than 200 delegates from the food processing and...

A week-long high-level dialogue for exchanging innovative policies and experiences in food system within the framework of “China - FAO South-South Cooperation Programme” was hosted recently in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province....

The celebration of the 37th World Food Day and the 27th National Love Food and Save Food Publicity Week kicked off at China Agriculture University on 16 October of 2017....

The 2017 Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum kicked off on 9 October 2017 in Beijing. Wang Yang, Vice Premier of the State Council of China, attended and addressed the...

Xuanhua, China - 150 kilometers away from Beijing, there is the Shanggujun once guarded by “flying general” Li Guang in Western Han dynasty.  Over the 2000 years of history, Shanggujun,...

Beijing - The third meeting of the United Nations (UN) Agriculture and Food Security Theme Group was held in Beijing on 17 July 2017. The meeting focused on the importance of...

Kunming, China - Rice is a major food commodity and staple food for many, and adding fish to flooded rice paddies has been a farming tradition practiced in a number...