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FAO at SPIEF: Healthy diet, traditional values, and habits
10/06/2024
During the final day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF 2024), the Moscow FAO Office participated in the Past, Present and Future of Our Diet: The Role of Nutrition in Sustainable Development roundtable of Rospotrebnadzor.
FAO and UNEP Celebrated World Environment Day at St. Petersburg Forum
07/06/2024
The briefing took place on 5 June, the date when the UN General Assembly decided to celebrate the World Environment Day (WED) since 1972. This year’s WED was dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) with the slogan “accelerating land restoration, drought resilience and desertification progress”.
First International Day of Potato in Russia: “T’is our second bread”
04/06/2024
First International Day of Potato celebrated 30 May 2024
30/05/2024
The potato has a long history that began in the Andes of South America about 8 000 years ago when communities of hunters and gatherers began domesticating wild potato plants that grew around Lake Titicaca.
International Day for Biological Diversity: Russian businesses ready to do their bit
27/05/2024
FAO celebrates World Bee Day with schoolchildren at Timiryazev Academy
24/05/2024
Armen Harutyunyan: We prioritize digitalization of agriculture
22/05/2024
Armen Harutyunyan, Director of the Department of Agro-Industrial Policy of the Eurasian Economic Commission, spoke to the organizers of the 34th session of the FAO Regional Conference for Europe (ERC34).
International Day of Plant Health: cutting-edge plant pest management in Russia
20/05/2024
34th session of the FAO Regional Conference for Europe (ERC34)
14/05/2024
An important item on the agenda will be a review of the results of FAO’s work in the region during 2022 and 2023 as well as a discussion of future priorities through 2031, reflecting on the implications of global and regional challenges and the FAO Strategic Framework.
Shiroma Sathyapala: AI algorithms could be used to analyze pest behavior patterns
08/05/2024
A renowned scholar Shiroma Sathyapala, Forestry Protection and Health Officer, FAO Forestry Department (co-author, among other academic papers, of the Global forest area disturbance from fire, insect pests, diseases and severe weather events), attended the seminar devoted to the International Day of Forests, organized in Moscow by the FAO Liaison office with the Russian Federation, and contributed her presentation to this event.
Name a camel Zhusan, which means steppe wormwood! It will grow unpretentious and sturdy like this plant
02/05/2024
Giant “ships of the desert” are recognized as a flamboyant attraction of the Astrakhan Oblast – the world’s tallest two-humped Bactrian camels of the Kalmykian breed. In this southern part of the Russian Federation there are more than 3500 of them. But only two farms in the region are engaged in the breeding of Bactrians – Aksaraysky municipal unitary agricultural enterprise and agro-industrial cooperative, cattle-breeding state farm called Rodina.
Astrakhan State Technical University joins FAO network
29/04/2024
The delegation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Liaison Office with the Russian Federation and the Moscow representative office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) visited the leading fisheries university of Russia - Astrakhan State Technical University (ASTU) during a business trip to the Astrakhan region.