With extreme weather events like typhoons, droughts, and floods becoming more frequent and severe, the...
Tacloban - To help build the resilience of small-scale rice, corn and coconut-based farming communities severely affected by Typhoon Haiyan, some 40,000 households are receiving recovery support in the form of water- and pest-resistant storage containers, along with training that will help farmers to protect their seeds and reduce post-harvest losses.
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Rome - Eradicating world hunger sustainably by 2030 will require an estimated additional $267 billion per year on average for investments in rural and urban areas and in social protection, so poor people have access to food and can improve their livelihoods, a new UN report says. This would average $160...
Manila - During a recent field visit to an FAO project site in the Leyte community of Malitobgay, Ambassador David Strachan from the New Zealand (NZ) Embassy praised the coconut farmers for their recovery efforts.
The field visit included a tour of a contour farming site that was developed by the...
Manila - The Asia-Pacific region has achieved the Millennium Development Goals’ hunger target (MDG-1c) of halving the proportion of undernourished people in 2015, however there are still 490 million people in the region, two-thirds of the world’s population, suffering chronic hunger according to a regional report on the state of...
LOS BANOS, LAGUNA -- Representatives from the Government, research and academic institutions, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will convene today in an international conference to develop sustainable Integrated Pest Management strategies against the coconut scale insect (CSI) at the Southeast Asian Regional Center for...
