The theme for this year’s World Water Day is Coping with Water Scarcity. In this interview, Dr Jacques Diouf, Director-General of FAO, the coordinating agency within the UN system for World Water Day this year, addresses the issue. How serious is the problem of water scarcity? Global water use has been growing...

14 February 2007, Rome -- By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world’s population could be living under water stress conditions, FAO said today.  Water use has grown at more than twice the rate of population increase over...

29 November 2006, Rome - Which causes more greenhouse gas emissions, rearing cattle or driving cars?  Surprise!  According to a new report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent – than transport. It is...