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08 February 2019
Laboratory-based surveillance is considered one of the cornerstones for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) management. It provides information for action in support to national and international strategies to tackle AMR. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed the FAO-ATLASS in order to support countries in assessing and...
03 December 2018
Mr.Tomio Shichiri, FAO Representative in India visited the Uttar Pradesh Water Sector restructuring Project (UPWSRP) last week. The discussions with the team were focussed around improved understanding and implementation of Farmer Water School (FWS), and focus on studying and evaluating the impacts of FWS. Up till now, the focus of the...
19 November 2018
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research and its Indian Institute of Soil Science is organizing the Second lab managers’ meeting of the South-East Asia Laboratory NETwork (SEALNET 2.0) meeting in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh from 19-23 November. In his speech, Mr. Tomio Shichiri, FAOR India said that Evidence-based decisions made using harmonized...
16 November 2018
The AMR week (12-18 November) was celebrated across India with FAO and its partners. AMR has a grave potential to damage the global economy, food security and the health of people. AMR annually kills about 700,000 people worldwide – a number that is projected to rise to 10 million by 2050....
19 October 2018
The FAO Representative in India, Tomio Shichiri, presented a session on food and Nutrition security at the Asia regional Training or Trainers on Human Rights, Food and Nutrition Security on 17th October 2018, at Ahmedabad, Gujarat.  The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, since 2015, joined efforts with the...