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30 October 2018
Jakarta, Indonesia – To reduce fire risk and stop enormous amount of carbon from being emitted from the soil into the atmosphere, Indonesia is rewetting over two million hectares of dried out peatlands, while scaling up information sharing on these the carbon-rich wetlands globally. Globally, the vital importance of peatlands has...
18 October 2018
Evidence continues to point to a rise in world hunger in recent years. New data suggest the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to levels of almost a decade ago.  The absolute number of people in the world affected by undernourishment,...
07 October 2018
The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government held a special Festival at Taman Menteng Jakarta, on Sunday 7th October to celebrate World Food Day, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The Road to #ZeroHunger festival was held...
28 September 2018
  Tangerang, the results of surveillance for avian influenza virus in poultry markets in the Greater Jakarta area, which has been carried out since 2009 indicated that avian flu virus is found in 60-70% of Jakarta’s live bird markets. Poultry facilities such as poultry transport vehicles, poultry collector yards and slaughterhouses...
30 August 2018
Sleman, The Road to Zero Hunger Campaign Team FAO Indonesia (30/8) stepped on Yogyakarta as the second city in the 2018 World Food Day campaign series under the global theme "Our Actions are Our Future, Zero Hunger 2030 is possible". This campaign is part of the awareness-raising programme for Indonesians, especially...