Tag: FAO

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Food commodity prices rose sharply in November to their highest in six years

  

  Global food commodity prices rose sharply in November to their highest level in nearly six years, according to a benchmark United Nations report released on Thursday. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 105.0 points during the month, up 3.9% from October and 6.5% higher than its value a year earlier. The monthly increase was the sharpest since July 2012, putting the index at its highest level since December 2014, the Food and Agriculture Organization said.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 07:36 UTC

  FAO trims world 2020 cereal output forecast

  

  FAO has further lowered its forecast for global cereal production in 2020, which now stands at 2 742 million tons - still a record high and 1.3% above the previous year's outturn. The new forecasts released today with FAO's Cereal Supply and Demand Brief point to world coarse grains production of 1,470 million tons, wheat production of 761.7 million tons, and rice output of 508.4 million tons.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  World leaders join forces to fight the accelerating crisis of antimicrobial resistance

  

  The heads of the and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the new One Health Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance.

• Wednesday, July 8th 2020 - 07:33 UTC

  World 2020 cereal production forecasted to reach new record

  

  World cereal production is poised to reach a new record level of 2 790 million tons in 2020 - up 9.3 million tons from the May forecast - surpassing the record-high registered in 2019 by as much as 3%, according to FAO's Cereal Supply and Demand Brief.

• Tuesday, July 7th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Dairy prices in June increased 4%, but beef is down because of larger export volumes

  In June, global food commodity prices rose for the first time since the beginning of the year driven by a rebound in vegetable oils, sugar and dairy quotations. However, in the cereals and meat markets, most prices remained under downward pressure amid market uncertainties posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 08:21 UTC

  FAO's message on the International Day for the fight against IUU fishing

  

  Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU). These three adjectives ultimately jeopardize the whole of the fisheries sector. IUU fishing can destroy the livelihoods of fishing communities, harm food security and nutrition, damage fair local and international trade, and often give way to unsafe and indecent working conditions, sometimes even crime.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 09:41 UTC

  FAO: Global cereals stock to-use-ratio “comfortable”; bumper crops of corn in Southern Hemisphere

  

  FAO's forecast for 2020 world wheat production remains unchanged in March from the previous month, at the near-record level of last year, which, coupled with ample inventories, will help shield food markets from turmoil during the coronavirus storm.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 09:39 UTC

  Food Prices declines sharply in March except rice as countries stockpile

  

  World food prices declined sharply in March, driven mostly by demand-side contractions linked to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the drop in global oil prices due mostly to expectations of economic slowdown as governments roll out restrictions designed to respond to the health crisis.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 07:36 UTC

  Mitigating impacts of Covid-19 on food trade and markets

  

  The following is the statement by FAO's chief Qu Donguy, WHO's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyseus and WTO's director-general Roberto Azevedo.

• Saturday, January 11th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  FAO Price Index climbs 2.5% in December, the highest level in five years

  

  World food prices rose for the third consecutive month in December, as a strong rally in vegetable oil prices drove the FAO Food Price Index to its highest level in five years. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 181.7 points during the month, a 2.5 percent increase from November and the highest level since December 2014.