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The lack of quality fodder, especially during winter, is a major limiting factor in improving livestock production in Tibet. Adjusting cropping systems to make full use of the growing season is low cost and will allow farmers to increase their ... [more]
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A Peruvian and a Chinese photographer have won the world photography contest “Focus on a global food” launched by FAO and the United Nations as part of International Year of the Potato celebrations in 2008. http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2008/1000938/index.htmlhttp://www.potato2008.org/en/photocontest/1p.html [more]
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Unusually heavy rains and flooding in eastern Yemen and southern Oman in late October could cause Desert Locusts to increase as ecological conditions are expected to remain favourable for several months. [more]
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FAO is coordinating a United Nations Environment Programme/Global Environment Facility (UNEP/GEF) project worth $26.45 million to better manage those aspects of wild biodiversity that provide pollination services for human livelihood. The five-year project, entitled, “Conservation and Management of ... [more]
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More than 300 delegates from the 122 Parties to the Rotterdam Convention as well as observers from civil society, the chemical industry and others will gather in FAO Headquarters in Rome from 27 to 31 October 2008 for the Fourth ... [more]
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An international consultation on pro-poor Jatropha Development organized by the United Nations Foundation, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, IFAD and FAO in April 2008 assessed knowledge and research results on Jatropha. The consultation increased knowledge on the risks ... [more]
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Farmers in the Africa’s Great Lakes Region, in particular Burundians, are planting cassava again with the help of FAO and its partners. A decade ago, an aggressive strain of plant virus, known as Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD), moved through the ... [more]
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Surveys are currently underway in Desert Locust summer breeding areas in the Sahel of West Africa and Sudan as well as along the Indo-Pakistan border. Even though good rains have fallen this season, only low numbers of locusts have been ... [more]
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FAO and the Conservation Technology Information Center are hosting an international discussion about the potential of conservation agriculture systems and sequestering carbon in contributing significantly to the mitigation of climate change. [more]
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The use of certified seed of improved varieties can increase wheat yields by up to 30 percent. Certified seed also guarantees other added benefits such as cleaned seed that is free from weed and diseased grains and pure seed ... [more]
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