FAO in Indonesia

News

19 July 2017
  Jakarta, Indonesia – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Emergency Centre of Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) Indonesia reinforced its commitment to support the prevention, detection and response to emerging pandemic threats in the country under the Emerging Pandemic Threats Phase 2 (EPT-2) programme, funded by the...
07 July 2017
23 June 2017 – FAO ECTAD Indonesia is supporting the Field Epidemiology Training Programme for Veterinarians (FETPV) in Indonesia in order to strengthen the epidemiological capacity of the Government of Indonesia’s veterinary services. The programme, which is called PELVI, an abbreviation of the programme’s name in Indonesian, was launched by...
22 June 2017
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) conducted workshop on “Land Cover Map Accuracy and Training Workshop on FAO SEPAL Remote Sensing Tool” jointly organised with the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) and supported by the UN-REDD programme, from 2-6 May 2017 in Bogor, West Java.  This training workshop provided practical...
01 June 2017
Region’s rapidly aging population needs to increase calcium intake to prevent bone loss and fractures
08 April 2017
Minapadi”, Indonesia’s term for “rice-fish farming” has been practiced for generations in Indonesia, and many other parts of East and South-East Asia. Unfortunately, with the introduction of ‘modern’ intensive farming techniques, especially those that include the use of pesticides, the fish and other aquatic animals that traditionally kept the rice...