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05 December 2020
  Soil organisms play a crucial role in boosting food production, enhancing nutritious diets, preserving human health, remediating polluted sites and combating climate change, but their contribution remains largely underestimated. Even though biodiversity loss is at the forefront of global concerns, the biodiversity that is below ground is not being given the...
25 November 2020
A wide range of bread-and-butter issues were discussed during the XXII International Scientific and Practical Conference dedicated to the memory of renowned Russian scientist, innovator and tutor Vasily Gorbatov. The Moscow-based Gorbatov Federal Scientific Centre for Food Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Conference convener, celebrates its 90th anniversary...
24 November 2020
  On 24 November 2020, the Moscow-based offices of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) joined efforts and hosted the traditional round table on tackling the issue of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). Key Russian stakeholders united...
24 November 2020
  The COVID-19 pandemic has led to national borders’ closures, restrictions on the movement of labor, goods and services, and has disrupted the functioning of global food supply chains, access to safe, high-quality food. The pandemic has complicated the implementation by the states of obligations under the 2030 Agenda, and on top...
12 November 2020
  The joint FAO-WFP report EARLY WARNING ANALYSIS OF ACUTE FOOD INSECURITY HOTSPOTS focuses on acute food insecurity exacerbated by the socio-economic fallout of measures imposed to contain the spread of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).  Please find excerpts from the report to highlight the experts’ key findings.  This joint FAO-WFP focuses on 20...