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Global tea consumption and production are projected to keep rising over the next decade, driven by robust demand in developing and emerging countries. This will create new rural income opportunities and improve food security in tea-producing countries, according to a new report released today. Tea consumption has grown particularly rapidly in China,...

Beijing - FAO in cooperation with Foreign Economic Cooperation Centre, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of PRC (MARA) organized a one-day workshop under the theme “Resource Mobilization, Partnership and Innovation” to assess FAO-China collaboration in the context of mid-term review of the Country Programming Framework (CPF) 2016–2020. It was...

The International Symposium on Soil health and Sustainable Development was held in Beijing on 23 May 2018. It was jointly organized by FAO, the Global Soil Partnership (GSP), the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Beijing Soil Fertilizer Extension Service Station. About 160 experts and policymakers from these organizations and...

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 Programme (TCP) on improving fertilizer utilization and agricultural ecological environment held on 10 May 2018 in the city of Changji,...

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 Workshop on the Compilation of Food Balance Sheet in Xi’an, China (16 - 20 April). Vincent Martin said that FAO’s mandate...