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Bangkok – The Asia-Pacific region has some of the world’s richest concentrations of earth’s biological diversity, but human activities, including the expansion of agriculture, are threatening the survival of many species and their ecosystem services, a conference on regional biodiversity mainstreaming heard today.
Asia and the Pacific is home to nearly...
The “Development of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Villages” project officially launched in Beijing on July 12. From 2019 to 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with GF Securities Co., Ltd. and the China Agriculture Science and Education Foundation (CASEF), will have a strategic cooperation...
On July 5th, the “Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) – Tsinghua University Ag-LabCx Innovation Incubation Event” was held at the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA). At the event, products and service systems designed for Hani Terraces in Honghe County of Yunnan Province by the Tsinghua...
Family Farming is when agriculture production, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production is managed and operated by a family, and is predominantly reliant on the family labour of both women and men. Many people may not know that family farms account for 70% to 80% of the world's farmland and...
On 19 June, Mr. Vincent Martin, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Representative in China, and Mr. Wei Zhenglin, Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, jointly unveiled the FAO booth in the International Pavilion of...
