Tag: UN Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO

• Monday, August 11th 2014 - 09:40 UTC

  FAO July Food Price Index at its lowest level since January 2014

  

  The FAO Food Price Index averaged 203.9 points in July 2014, down 4.4 points (2.1 percent) from a revised value in June and 3.5 points (1.7 percent) below July 2013. While meat prices rose for the fifth consecutive month and sugar remained firm, sharp declines in grains, oilseeds and dairy quotations pushed down the FAO Food Price Index to its lowest level since January 2014.

• Wednesday, June 18th 2014 - 08:20 UTC

  Obama pledges to crack down on illegal fishing and enforce traceability

  

  The Obama administration announced on Tuesday an initiative to track every fish sold in the United States, a move designed to crack down on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, mislabeling of seafood and related problems.

• Tuesday, May 20th 2014 - 09:45 UTC

  Joint global efforts to stop IUU fishing

  

  International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) president Susan Jackson considers the improvement of vessel registration schemes and the eradication of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) activities should be the top priority for all ocean conservation organizations.

• Saturday, May 10th 2014 - 00:45 UTC

  Latam and Caribbean committed to eradicate hunger in the region by 2025

  

  Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have advanced a robust agenda aimed at achieving the eradication of hunger in the region, during a major FAO meeting which concluded on Friday in Chile.

• Saturday, May 10th 2014 - 00:05 UTC

  Despite some setbacks, FAO expects second largest cereal production this year

  

  Weather conditions in various countries and political tensions in the Black Sea region have made food markets more volatile, FAO reports in the new Food Outlook. In its first major forecast for 2014, FAO puts cereal production at 2 458 million tons (including milled rice), down some 2.4% from the 2013 record, though global output is still expected to be the second largest ever.

• Thursday, February 27th 2014 - 03:19 UTC

  Booming world fish trade generating more wealth than ever, says FAO report

  

  The booming world fish trade is generating more wealth than ever before, but countries must help small-scale fishers and fish farmers benefit too, says FAO.

• Thursday, February 27th 2014 - 03:08 UTC

  Argentine social programs praised by FAO and World Bank, says government

  

  Argentina praised some of the “positive and favorable comments” by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Bank regarding the country’s social and economic agenda, regretting that “certain” media “downplay” such news.

• Monday, November 11th 2013 - 19:49 UTC

  GEF and FAO approve project to improve sustainability of tuna fisheries worldwide

  

  Global Environment Facility (GEF) CEO Naoko Ishii approved a project coordinated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to improve the health and sustainability of tuna fisheries worldwide by reducing illegal catch and supporting related marine ecosystems and species.

• Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 21:19 UTC

  FAO believes livestock greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced as much as 30%

  

  Wider use of available best practices and technologies could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector by as much as 30%, according to a new study released on Thursday by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2013 - 06:40 UTC

  FAO praises Argentina’s law on rural land as an example for Latam countries

  

  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) praised Argentina’s Law on Rural Lands (Ley de Tierras Rurales), stating that the measure could serve as an example for the region. FAO has invited Argentine representatives to expound their experience with the law at a workshop to be staged next week in the Colombian capital of Bogotá.