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28 December 2017
Currently one in every nine people in the world does not have enough food to eat, while overcoming the burden of malnutrition remains a serious challenge to ensure people’s full development potential. In Asia alone, 520 million people are currently undernourished, of which an estimated 20 million live in...
19 December 2017
The International Forestry Students' Association (IFSA) is the largest organization for forestry science students in the world. One of their local committees (IFSA LC UGM) operates at Gadjah Mada University and has a very active student community. At the end of 2017, IFSA LC UGM held an event to provide...
13 December 2017
The Field Epidemiology Training Programme for Veterinarians (FETPV), known as PELVI (Program Epidemiologi Lapangan Untuk Veteriner Indonesia) in Indonesia was launched in May 2017. In order to determine concrete steps for the implementation of the programme, which has been discussed between the Ministry of Agriculture and FAO ECTAD Indonesia since...
23 November 2017
This year’s World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW) just ended on 19 November 2017. FAO ECTAD Indonesia, together with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) of the Republic Indonesia and other related stakeholders successfully held several events which aimed to raise people’s awareness of the danger of misusing antimicrobial agents such as...
19 November 2017
The world is “on the move”. Various forms of migration are having a profound impact on people’s food security situation. Globally, 224 million people migrate across borders annually, while 740 million move within their own countries. Sadly, there are also 64 million people displaced by conflict and persecution, the highest...