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16 November 2018
The AMR week (12-18 November) was celebrated across India with FAO and its partners. AMR has a grave potential to damage the global economy, food security and the health of people. AMR annually kills about 700,000 people worldwide – a number that is projected to rise to 10 million by 2050....
19 October 2018
The FAO Representative in India, Tomio Shichiri, presented a session on food and Nutrition security at the Asia regional Training or Trainers on Human Rights, Food and Nutrition Security on 17th October 2018, at Ahmedabad, Gujarat.  The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, since 2015, joined efforts with the...
16 October 2018
The three food and agriculture based organizations of the United Nations, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) along with other strategic partners came together to mark World Food Day 2018 at the UN House in New...
15 October 2018
India’s “100 per cent organic state” Sikkim has won the “Oscar for best policies”, conferred by the Food and Agriculture Organisation for the world’s best policies promoting agroecological and sustainable food systems. Sikkim won the Future Policy Award 2018, beating 51 nominated policies from 25 countries, according to a statement. Policies...
10 October 2018
Sikkim's State Policy on Organic Farming and Sikkim Organic Mission have been shortlisted for an award conferred by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations for the world's best policies promoting agroecological approaches. The 2018 Future Policy Award (FPA) will commend proven policies that effectively scale up agroecological approaches...