Jakarta/Thimpu/Bangkok/Rome Government representatives from  46 countries in the Asia Pacific region gathered virtually today at the 35th Session of FAO’s Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC) examining the present...

Bangkok/Thimphu As COVID-19 continues to threaten lives and livelihoods across many countries of the Asia-Pacific region, it has led to setbacks in the fight to end hunger and malnutrition, the Food...

Jakarta – The current COVID-19 global pandemic and other prior outbreaks such as coronavirus Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and Ebola remind us of the importance of the understanding of zoonoses...

The arrival of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has had a great impact on agriculture and food systems in Asia and the Pacific, a region already beset by climate and weather...

  - Six new projects will pilot innovative approaches to strengthen legality compliance The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched six new projects in support of legal...

Bangkok/Manila/Jakarta/Rome Asia-Pacific’s smallholder family farmers produce most of the world’s food, yet they are facing a disproportionate impact on their livelihoods and food security due to the present coronavirus pandemic, a...

ROME/BANGKOK: The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, has appointed Jong-Jin Kim as Assistant Director-General and FAO Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific, effective...

  Amidst the Pandemic of Covid 19, Indonesia celebrated the 2nd World Food Safety Day (10/6), in a webinar led by National Drugs and Food Authority (BPOM) in Jakarta, Indonesia. The...

Today the world observed the World Food Safety Day which gained a momentum during Covid 19 pandemic where everyone has needed to pay extra attention to their food safety.  The pandemic...

Jakarta – As the COVID-19 epidemic rages on in Indonesia, the government eventually increased the number of laboratories allowed to test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of Coronavirus disease....

Conservation and sustainable use can work together to protect plants, animals and livelihoods

    Indonesian peatlands store eighty percent of national soil organic carbon. Peat-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been estimated to be responsible for at least thirty eight percent of total national...

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FAO appeals to people to buy their food from local small businesses, to appreciate the farmers who produce the food, to shop sensibly, to eat healthy...

Jakarta. World Veterinary Day (WVD) marked every year on the last Saturday of April – falls this year on April 25th. The 2020 WVD theme is “Environmental Protection for Improving Animal...

The science is clear: the global climate change crisis is altering the water cycle. This will make water availability less predictable, affecting water quality, worsening water scarcity and threatening sustainable...

This year’s theme highlights importance of forestry education to secure the future of our forests

Muhammad Awalu Fatah is a 16 year old from Mojokerto district, East Java who participated in a global Student Poster Contest organized by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the...

 On Tuesday in Jakarta, the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) launched the new national “Harvest Strategy” for blue swimming crabs, snappers and groupers to improve fisheries management. Minister...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today called for an acceleration in improvements to agriclturural data gathering and monitoring to ensure the targets set out in...

Three out of five Emerging/Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) are zoonotic, which means they can be transmitted from animals to humans. Indonesia, as a country with rapid population growth, high globalization...