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Montevideo, November 21st 2024 - 12:16 UTC

Tag: FAO

  • Thursday, November 7th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

    FAO Director General calls for ocean sustainable solutions for fisheries

    “Ocean protection will only succeed if we spend financial and brain power in developing sustainable solutions,” Qu said at the Our Ocean Conference in Oslo. Image: FAO/Suuronen Petri

    Various investments in ocean sustainability will raise the amount of fish to feed the poor, helping drive progress towards the eradication of hunger which is the lynchpin for achieving the other Sustainable Development Goals, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said in a speech.

  • Tuesday, October 8th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

    Higher prices for vegetable oils and meat during September, FAO report

    FAO raised its estimates for worldwide coarse grains production based on an improved outlook for barley production and better maize prospects in Brazil and the U.S.

    Global food prices were steady in September, as lower sugar prices were offset by increased quotations for vegetable oils and meat. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of commonly-traded food commodities, averaged 170 points in September, virtually unchanged from August and 3.3 per cent higher than in the same month in 2018.

  • Saturday, July 20th 2019 - 07:47 UTC

    Bolsonaro denies hunger in Brazil; FAO says 5.1 million are “undernourished”

    “There is no hunger,” the leader said, noting Brazil “was rich in practically every type of crop”.

    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday there was no hunger in the country, citing the lack of “poor people in the street with a skeletal physique” as evidence. Speaking to foreign journalists, Bolsonaro blamed “populists” for propagating “a big lie” that some of Brazil's 209 million people did not have enough to eat.

  • Tuesday, July 9th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

    Latin America suffering triple burden of malnutrition: obesity, unbalanced diets and declining activity

    “In Latin America and the Caribbean ... obesity currently affects around one quarter of the population, while about 60 per cent of the population is overweight”

    Latin America and the Caribbean is facing an obesity epidemic while paradoxically the number of people facing food insecurity in the region continues to rise, the OECD and FAO warned in a report on Monday. 

  • Tuesday, June 25th 2019 - 07:19 UTC

    FAO has a new director general, Qu Dongyu from China

    Qu Dongyu of China was elected on Sunday Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Qu Dongyu received a total of 108 votes out of 191 cast, constituting a majority in the first round.

  • Thursday, June 13th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

    Wheat and barley production forecasted to increase; rains in US threaten maize crop

    Based on the new estimates, world cereal stocks could decline by as much as 3% in the new season, hitting a four-year low of 830 million tons

    FAO's latest forecast for world cereal production in 2019 - available in the Cereal Supply and Demand Brief- points to an increase of 1.2 percent from the previous year to reach 2 685 million tons, a sharp downward revision from the forecast made in May when global cereal production was predicted to expand by 2.7 percent.

  • Thursday, June 13th 2019 - 09:17 UTC

    Global food prices rose for the fifth consecutive month in May

    The FAO Dairy Price Index rose 5.2% from April, nearing a five-year high. The upswing, centered on cheese prices

    Global food prices rose for the fifth consecutive month in May, pushed up by rising prices of cheese and maize due to adverse weather conditions. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of commonly traded food commodities, averaged 172.4 points in May, up 1.2 per cent from the previous month while still 1.9 per cent below its level in May 2018.

  • Thursday, June 13th 2019 - 09:06 UTC

    FAO's Director hails advances in IUU fishing and calls for a Port Measures Agreement

    The Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) is meant to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing

    FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva hailed the more than 100 countries that are committed to combating unsustainable and illegal fishing, calling the rapid international adoption of the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing a “fantastic achievement”.

  • Friday, June 7th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

    The first UN World Food Safety Day to be marked on Friday 7 June

    Unsafe food also hinders development in many low- and middle-income economies, which lose around US$ 95 billion in productivity

    The first-ever celebration of the United Nations World Food Safety Day, to be marked globally on 7 June, aims to strengthen efforts to ensure that the food we eat is safe.
Every year, nearly one in ten people in the world (an estimated 600 million people) fall ill and 420,000 die after eating food contaminated by bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances.

  • Monday, May 27th 2019 - 20:48 UTC

    UN: Global Action Plan to boost family farming and achieve zero hunger

    Farmers unload potato from a truck in the highlands of Mérida, Venezuela. Photo: Sebastián Astorga

    Family farmers have an important role in the global fight to end hunger and promote a healthy diet, according to the President of the United Nations General Assembly, María Fernanda Espinosa. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) states that, in a context in which almost one million plants and animal species are endangered by the impact of man, traditional agriculture can make a contribution essential to safeguard agricultural biodiversity.