Tag: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

• Tuesday, November 10th 2015 - 06:33 UTC

  FAO food commodity prices rose in October 3.9%, but 16% down from a year earlier

  

  The FAO Food Price Index averaged nearly 162 points in October, up 3.9% from September, while still down 16% from a year earlier. FAO's latest Cereal supply and Demand Brief slightly trimmed its October 2015 forecast for global cereal production and now projects production at 2.53 billion tons, 1.1% below last year's record output

• Friday, September 11th 2015 - 09:58 UTC

  FAO's August Food Price Index at its lowest in almost seven years

  

  International food commodity prices continued to decline in August as ample supplies, a slump in energy prices and concerns over China's economic slowdown all contributed to the sharpest fall of the FAO Food Price Index in almost seven years.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2015 - 13:10 UTC

  A forest area equivalent to South Africa has been lost since 1990, says FAO

  

  The world's forests continue to shrink as populations increase and forest land is converted to agriculture and other uses, but over the past 25 years the rate of net global deforestation has slowed down by more than 50%, FAO said in a report published on Tuesday.

• Monday, August 10th 2015 - 07:00 UTC

  Dairy and vegetable oils prices help FAO's July food index reach its lowest since 2009

  

  Prices for major food commodities in July hit their lowest average monthly level since September 2009 as sharp drops in the prices of dairy products and vegetable oils more than offset some increases for those of sugar and cereals. Meat prices, meanwhile, remained stable.

• Saturday, August 8th 2015 - 09:44 UTC

  FAO pressing countries to ratify agreement on illegal, unreported, unregulated fishing

  

  A growing number of countries are ratifying an international agreement to combat illegal fishing, fueling interest in how best to implement the instrument. Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is estimated to strip between $10 billion and $23 billion from the global economy, and their impacts undermine the way fish stocks are managed to make it a double concern around the world.

• Saturday, August 1st 2015 - 12:57 UTC

  UN agreement to combat illegal fishing (IUU) close to ratification

  

  Thirteen additional countries need to ratify an agreement brokered by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to combat illegal fishing by blocking ports to ships known or believed to be carrying illicit catches that account for more than 15% of global output, the agency said today.

• Friday, June 5th 2015 - 10:17 UTC

  FAO's Food Price Index in May was down 20.7% from a year ago

  

  Major food commodity prices declined again in May, hitting an almost six-year low as cereal prices fell substantially amid a favorable outlook for this year's harvests. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 166.8 points in May, down 1.4% from April and as much as 20.7% from a year earlier.

• Monday, May 18th 2015 - 05:17 UTC

  FAO's agenda includes fighting illegal fishing in the Mediterranean and Black Sea

  

  In a global context of fierce competition for fishery resources which are progressively being depleted as a consequence of overfishing, overexploitation and overcapacity, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has become a growing concern, points out a FAO fisheries release.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2015 - 09:24 UTC

  FAO Food Price Index down in March helped by a sharp drop in sugar

  

  The FAO Food Price Index continued to decline in March, dropping 1.5 percent from February and 18.7 percent (40 points) below its level a year earlier.

• Monday, March 9th 2015 - 11:45 UTC

  February's FAO Food Price Index at is lowest value since early 2010

  

  The FAO Food Price Index averaged 179. 4 points in February 2015, down 1.8 points (1.0 percent) from its January value and 29 points (14.0 percent) below its level in February 2014. Prices of cereals, meat and, especially, sugar, dipped last month, while they remained steady in the case of oils and rebounded sharply in the case of dairy products. The index has been on a declining path since April 2014 and has now reached its lowest value since July 2010.