FAO in Indonesia

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23 July 2021
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged global action to ensure that everyone has access to safe food now for a healthy tomorrow at the opening of an online gathering on 7 June 2021 to celebrate the World Food Safety Day 2021. “Food safety is essential to...
29 June 2021
Jakarta, 29 June 2021 – The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how infectious disease outbreaks anywhere can have devastating health, economic, political, and societal consequences worldwide. No country has been untouched by COVID-19 and no country is fully prepared for the next pandemic disease outbreak. Many of the greatest pandemic threats are associated...
16 June 2021
Jakarta/Rome   Indonesian Minister of Agriculture Syahril Yasin Limpo reiterated Indonesia commitment to continue to transform Indonesia’s agrifood systems into a more “inclusive, resilient and sustainable“. The commitment was stated in his remarks at the Food and Agriculture of the United Nations (FAO) 42nd biennial virtual conference. Limpo highlighted Indonesia agriculture sector resilient...
07 June 2021
More than 600 million people, or 1 in 10, fall ill and 420 000 die each year from eating food contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins or chemicals. 
24 April 2021
  The continuing COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way of life and significantly affected human health; other impacts and consequences of disease control efforts are of great concern, including its impact on food security and farmers’ livelihoods along food value chains. Veterinary medicine meaningfully and rapidly evolved, demonstrating veterinarians’ ability to cope,...