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Tacloban – The road to recovery was not easy for farmers and fisherfolk who lost almost everything they had when Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) struck on 8 November 2013. Many of them were already hard-pressed to make ends meet even before the disaster and the will to rebuild their...

Rome - Genome sequences of more than 3,000 rice varieties have been placed with the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) by the world's leading rice research institute in a move boosting plans to set up a global data exchange system for crop genetic resources. The...

Manila – The Philippines continues to take significant steps in assessing the food security situation in the country through the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). Currently used in 40 countries, the IPC is an internationally-recognized process to determine and analyse the severity and causes and of acute and chronic...

Rome/Bangkok -  A new UN programme funded by Germany will help eight developing countries revamp and strengthen their adaptation responses to climate change. Through the Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans programme, FAO and UNDP will work with ministries of agriculture in Nepal, Kenya, the Philippines, Thailand, Uganda, Uruguay, Viet Nam...

Maguindanao – Agriculture-dependent families in Maguindanao are still reeling from the residual impact of conflict, drought and flooding that affected the province in succession during the first half of 2015. In order to meet the first cropping season of the year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...