Tag: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

• Tuesday, March 18th 2025 - 10:37 UTC

  Avian Influenza, new ten-year strategy coordinated by FAO and Animal Health Organization

  

  In response to the evolving global ecological and epidemiological landscape, FAO and the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) have unveiled a new ten-year strategy aimed at preventing and controlling High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI).

• Friday, March 14th 2025 - 19:42 UTC

  FAO: Coffee production down brings prices up to all-time high

  

  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a report on Friday stating that global coffee prices hit a 13-year high in December last year, driven by reduced production in major exporting countries due to adverse weather.

• Tuesday, March 11th 2025 - 09:59 UTC

  The FAO Food Price Index in February was up, boosted by sugar, dairy, and vegetable oil demand

  

  The benchmark for global food commodity prices rose in February, propelled by increases in sugar, dairy, and vegetable oil prices, according to the new Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) report.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 20:14 UTC

  Uruguay quality beef complies with EU demands on deforestation, sustainability and traceability

  

  The protein consumption of Uruguayans has averaged some 95 kilos per person, a few more kilos than back in 1918, when after reaching a peak of 87, had begun to fall. Of the total 95 kilos, 46 have been beef, with the rest chicken and pork, according to Conrado Ferber, head of the Uruguay National Meats Institute, INAC.

• Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 08:48 UTC

  Mendoza and Newcastle win the FAO Green Cities Initiative Awards

  

  FAO presented Mendoza in Argentina and Newcastle in the United Kingdom with its first-ever Green Cities Initiative Awards during a special event for its Green Cities Initiative, GCI.

• Monday, January 15th 2024 - 09:22 UTC

  FAO launches fishing Global Information Exchange System under the 2009 agreement on port measures

  

  Global exchange of information on compliance with national, regional, and international fisheries laws and regulations governing sustainable fishing is now possible with the launch of the Global Information Exchange System, GIES, by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 08:41 UTC

  World Fisheries Day 2022: Investing in social protection to secure and protect fishers’ rights

  

  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Vatican, and the Catholic maritime charity, Stella Maris, marked on Tuesday World Fisheries Day with a call for greater social protection for small-scale fishers and fish workers.

• Monday, April 11th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  World food commodity prices 33,6% higher than in March 2021, FAO report

  

  World food commodity prices made a significant leap in March to reach their highest levels ever, as war in the Black Sea region spread shocks through markets for staple grains and vegetable oils, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported.

• Monday, January 10th 2022 - 09:28 UTC

  World food prices in 2021 remained 28,1% higher than in 2020, FAO report

  

  World food prices fell slightly in December as international prices for vegetable oils and sugar fell significantly from lofty levels, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, reported.

• Wednesday, December 15th 2021 - 21:29 UTC

  Uruguay signs deal with FAO to promote sustainable agriculture

  

  Uruguay's Federal Agricultural Cooperatives (CAF) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have signed a letter of agreement to promote agricultural awareness nationwide through the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries, MGAP, it was announced.