The FAO Conference and the UNESCO Executive Board first signed a framework agreement in 1949....
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7th Food Safety Working Group Meeting
12 April 2018
12 April 2018
Ha Noi, Viet Nam. National food safety issues took centre stage at an important quarterly meeting today hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The seventh Food Safety Working Group (FSWG) meeting...
Hanoi, Viet Nam - Natural disasters are costing farmers in the developing world billions of dollars each year, with drought emerging as the most destructive in a crowded field of threats that also includes floods, forest...
Hanoi, Viet Nam – While climate change and extreme weather events are impacting the environment in many ways, agriculture and food production in Asia and the Pacific are among those hardest hit and must be first in line to defend,...
Questions and Answers on Avian influenza A (H7N9) or "Bird Flu" by FAO and WHO Viet Nam
07 March 2018
07 March 2018
What is the avian influenza A (H7N9) virus?
Avian influenza (also known as ‘bird flu’) viruses normally circulate among birds. Although some avian H7 viruses (H7N2, H7N3 and H7N7) have occasionally been found to infect humans, no human...
Engaging Viet Nam in the global efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance using One Health approach
27 February 2018
27 February 2018
Hanoi, Viet Nam. The Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), FAO Viet Nam together with the National Institute for Veterinary Research (NIVR) launched the project “Engaging the food and agriculture sectors in sub‐Saharan Africa and South and South‐East Asia...
